We are so proud and happy for Dr Jade Hall, who graduated with her PhD in animal behavior and biomechanics today at the Royal Veterinary College! We wish we could have been there in person, but will have to settle for virtual celebrations….
Month: July 2020
Dr Suzanne Cox joins the lab as a postdoc!
We are extremely excited to have Dr Suzanne Cox join the Neuromechanics lab team! Dr Cox works at the interface of engineering, biology and physics, with particular interests in the control of elastically driven systems….
New paper published in eLife! Data and code available in Dryad
Our new paper in eLife investigates the role of reflexes in the neuromuscular control of locomotion by testing how muscle function and stability change following disruption the stretch reflex to the lateral gastrocnemius muscle in the guinea fowl. We discovered that birds with a proprioceptive deficit compensate by activating their muscle slightly earlier in late…