Welcome to the Purdue University Musculoskeletal Biology and Mechanics Lab

Lab PI: Russell Main

 
Skeletal BiologySkeletal_Biology.html
In Vivo BiomechanicsIn_Vivo_Biomechanics.html
Musculoskeletal AdaptationMusculoskeletal_Adaptation.html

News & Upcoming Events

  1. -Whitney took 2nd place in the student poster competition at the Purdue BMEGSA Research Symposium! Congratulations Whitney! (11/2012)

  2. -Whitney was awarded a Joe Bourland Graduate Student Travel Award by Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Way to go, Whitney! (11/2012)

  3. -Alexandra Myhal won a student presentation award at the 2012 American Indian Science and Engineering Society meeting in Anchorage, AK for her talk detailing her research in our lab on the skeleton’s structural and protein response to mechanical stimuli. Congratulations Alexandra! (11/2012)

  4. -Whitney won a President’s Poster Competition award at the 2012 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Great job, Whitney! (11/2012)                                                                                                

  5. -Alexandra Myhal (UM-Morris) and Kari Jenson (Gonzaga) joined the lab this summer to conduct summer research projects. It was great having you! (08/2012)

  6. -We received a USDA Hatch grant to validate in vivo approaches for predicting fracture risk in horse limb bones (07/2012)

  7. -Whitney Bullock was selected to present her research on genetic control of skeletal adaptation at the annual ASBMR meeting in Minneapolis in October. Congratulations Whitney! (07/2012)

  8. -We received a grant from the Showalter Research Trust to study the role of estrogen receptors in skeletal mechanotransduction (06/2012)

  9. -Michael Lehner ran the Pittsburgh Marathon. Congratulations on finishing Michael! (05/2012)


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