Presentation line up for SICB 2025

The UCI Neuromechanics lab has packed line-up of abstracts accepted for talks and poster presentations at SICB in January 2025! See our schedule of presentations below: Exploring variations in bobcat (Lynx rufus) locomotion across varied environmental conditions Speaker:  Katrina Moore  Saturday, January 04  9:30 AM – 9:45 AM  A704  Neurobiology and Behavior  Concurrent session Influence of Variation…

Recruiting PhD students for the 2025-26 intake!

The UCI Neuromechanics lab is currently recruiting PhD students to start their graduate studies in the 2025-26 academic year. If you are interested in applying, please reach our to Dr. Daley (madaley@uci.edu) with an email explaining your research interests and experience. Please also read through the information below on the PhD programs. We can accept…

New paper published in JEB by Dr. Janneke Schwaner

Lead author Dr. Janneke Schwaner has recently published a new paper in Journal of Experimental Biology, comparing in vivo operating ranges of the guinea fowl lateral gastrocnemius to the force-length and force-velocity properties measured in situ. We found that the muscle operates at shorter than optimal lengths in steady walking and running. We hypothesize that…

New paper published by Dr. Kamila Karimjee in RSOS

Lead author Dr. Kamila Karimjee, recent PhD graduate, has published a new paper in Royal Society Open Science investigating analysis approaches for quantifying activity levels in domestic dogs in a standardized and repeatable way:  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.240119 Karimjee, K., Harron, R. C., Piercy, R. J., & Daley, M. A. (2024). A standardised approach to quantifying activity in…