Medical students perform research of their own conception at OSU COM Cherokee Nation – CT and MRI imaging, visual system modeling. fluid mechanics. and musculoskelatal simulations. Initial research leads to full rotations, essential for many residencies. These wonderful folks are now doctors!

Drs. Kaylin Ray and Daniele O'Connor create models of their own limb bones back in 2023 to investigate running stresses. Flanked by Dr. Alex Lundberg's model of blood flow in coronary arteries.

Andy Danison 3D-scans an Allosaurus forelimb for testing its likely predatory function, at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Andy and Colin Boisvert are turning us into both the "rex" and the "other" (Allo-) Lab. Thanks to Alyson Wilkins here, and to Carrie Levitt for the picture!

Amanda Pennings presents our StudentBody project, in which medical students MRI-scan themselves for research and educating future students at OSU. Amanda created StudentBody+, a repository of donated anonymized medical imaging studies (bit.ly/Pennings_ima...).

Sarcomeres in a muscle fiber from a horse. Amanda Pennings is measuring muscle force-generating factors in horse muscles, from entire volumes (horse muscles are big!) to fiber and even sarcomere lengths. Microscope thanks to funded-project supervisor Holly Woodward Ballard!

A happy lab convergence now on forelimb muscle function – Amanda Pennings on horses, Kyle Atkins-Weltman on quadrupedal dinosaurs, and Andy Danison on Allosaurus and other theropods. Witness Kyle's model of two muscles in the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus.

Goings-on in the lab.