Dr Janneke Schwaner is on a real roll these days! She has won two fellowships, the Graduate Women in Science Fellowships and a Company of Biologist Travelling Fellowship to support collaborative work with Dr Kiisa Nishikawa at Northern Arizona University! We are very proud of Dr Schwaner and excited about the outstanding science that will…
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Two new PhD students to joining the Neuromechanics lab in the Fall!
We are very happy to announce that Brooke Christensen and Katrina Cazel will be joining the Neuromechanics lab as Ph.D. students in the Fall! They will join an outstanding cohort of graduate students in the Physiology group and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. We look forward to welcoming Brooke and Katrina!…
Congratulations to Dr Schwaner!
Neuromechanics lab postdoctoral scholar Dr. Janneke Schwaner has been selected as a recipient of the Dean’s Graduate Award in the University of Idaho College of Science, for her Ph.D. thesis on the neuromechanics of jumping in kangaroo rats. Congratulations Janneke!!…
Blair Thompson joins the lab as a Project Coordinator!
We are excited to have Blair Thompson join the team to help coordinate interdisciplinary collaborative projects and related education and community outreach activities on NSF-funded projects in the Neuromechanics lab. Blair’s interest in neuromechanics arose from her thesis research studying titin interactions using atomic force microscopy to fill gaps in current models of muscle mechanics….