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Welcome new Ph.D. student, Reece, to the lab!

Monday August 25, 2025

Welcome to new NeuroMob Lab Ph.D. Student Reece Lawrence! Reece joins us from Texas Tech and will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.

NeuroMob lab attends ASB in Pittsburgh, PA

Wednesday August 20, 2025

Grant and Dr. Allen both gave talks at the 2025 Annual Conference of the American Society of Biomechanics in Pittsburgh, PA Maddox GM, Shelton AD, Mercer VS, Crenshaw JR, Franz JR, Allen JL (2025). Goal-directed lateral stepping sheds light on muscle coordination strategies in walking balance challenges. 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of […]

NeuroMob lab attends ISB in Sweden

Friday August 1, 2025

Kaitlyn and Dr. Allen traveled to Sweden for the XXX Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics. Kaitlyn gave two presentations about her ongoing work, one at the ISB congress in Stockholm and one at the Technical Group on Computer Simulation Workshop in Uppsala. Downer KE, Allen JL (2025). The effect of energetic efficiency prioritization […]

Dr. Allen presents at Pepper Center Conference in D.C.

Thursday April 24, 2025

Dr. Allen presented some of the ongoing work from the lab’s Pepper Center Pilot Grant at the Annual Meeting of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center in Washington, DC.

New Paper from Grant

Sunday March 9, 2025

Congratulations to Grant for his first peer-reviewed manuscript from his work in our lab, published in the Journal of Biomechanics! He found the ability to modulate the complexity of muscle coordination is associated with walking balance control in older adults. Link 

New Paper from Mohammad

Thursday January 30, 2025

Congratulations to Mohammad for his first peer-reviewed manuscript from his work in our lab, published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation! He used musculoskeletal modeling techniques to explore the extent to which abnormal motor modules are emergent from abnormal biomechanics. Link. 

NeuroMob attends ASB conference in Madison, WI

Thursday August 15, 2024

Grant, Kaitlyn, and Dr. Allen gave talks about their ongoing work at the 2024 Annual Conference of the American Society of Biomechanics in Madison, WI Allen JL (2024). “Link between whole-body biomechanics and perceptual ability”. In Symposium on ‘Perturbing out ideas on balance: Open questions in biomechanical stability and balance across scales’, (invited symposium talk) […]

Grant, Kaitlyn, and Mohammad pass their qualifying exams

Monday July 15, 2024

Congratulations to Grant, Kaitlyn, and Mohammad for passing their Ph.D. qualifying exams/proposals! 

Pilot Grant from the UF Pepper Center

Wednesday May 15, 2024

The NeuroMob Lab received a Pilot Grant from the UF Claude D. Pepper Older American’s Independence Center. They will be exploring the neuromuscular control of walking balance in older adults spanning a range of balance abilities in both laboratory and real-world settings. 

NeuroMob Lab attends OpenSim Advanced Users Workshop

Sunday March 24, 2024

Dr. Allen and Kaitlyn attended the 2024 OpenSim Advanced Users workshop held on the Stanford Campus. They worked on advancing their simulations of gait using OpenSim Moco and developing new matlab and python code leveraging the OpenSim API to perform custom optimizations. 

New Paper from Dr. Allen and colleagues

Saturday February 10, 2024

Dr. Allen and colleagues’ perspective piece on computational modeling for neurorehabilitation was published.  Cashaback JGA, Allen JL, Chou AHY, Lin DJ, Price MA, Secerovic NK, Song S, Zhang H, Miller HL (2024). DARE 2023 Transforming Modeling in Neurorehabilitation: A Patient-in-the-Loop Framework. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 21(1):23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-024-01318-9

Dr. Allen receives NSF CAREER Award

Friday February 9, 2024

Dr. Allen received an NSF CAREER Award to support the lab’s research on neuromechanical modeling for gait neurorehabilitation. Link

New Paper from Kaitlyn’s undergrad work

Tuesday January 2, 2024

Congratulations to Kaitlyn on her first 1st author manuscript! This manuscript is a result of Kaitlyn’s undergraduate research at the University of Delaware. You can find the paper at this link.   

NeuroMob attends the ASB Conference in Knoxville, TN

Saturday August 12, 2023

Grant and Mohammad gave talks about their ongoing work at the 2023 Annual Conference of the American Society of Biomechanics in Knoxville, TN. Allen JL (2023). “Embedding the control of balance into the muscle coordination for movement across impairment and expertise”. In Jim Hay Memorial Award session (invited by 2023 Hay Award winner to present […]

NeuroMob Presentations at ISB Conference in Japan

Friday August 4, 2023

Dr. Allen presented some of the lab’s ongoing work in Japan at the International Society of Biomechanics confenerence, and Technical Group on Computer Simulation’s workshop that preceeded the main conference.  Allen JL (2023). Embedding the control of balance into the muscle coordination for walking is associated with better walking function. XXIX Congress of the International […]
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