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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 PhD candidate Becky Reals just published her second paper, "Flow cytometric identification of dynamic immune cell populations in a rat model of post-traumatic elbow contracture". Check out the full paper in Connective Tissue Research: #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another exciting Lake Lab update!! DR. SHAWN PAVEY successfully defended his thesis last week titled "The Effect of Fascicular Elastin on the Mechanical and Functional Properties of Healthy, Damaged, and Healing Tendon". Congratulations Shawn!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

🚨New paper alert🚨 PhD candidate Shawn Pavey recently published his paper "Fascicular Elastin Impacts Tendon-Specific Ramp-to-Failure and Fatigue Mechanics" in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering! Read more below: asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/biomechanical/…

Congrats to Karl on his impressive podium talk and Chloe and Karl on their phenomenal poster presentations🥳 And a big thank you to @WashUengineers WUSEF and WHE programs for making all this possible!

Last week students from the BrightPath STEAM Academy visited our lab to learn about our work from PhD Candidates Becky and Yuwen! We had so much fun showing them how we use physical therapy to fight inflammation in elbow injuries🏋️🔬💪

Another croquet victory for Shawn👑 And a shoutout to Ryan and Amanda for their creativity, thank you so much for making custom Lake Lab merch for everyone!!

We are proud to announce that PhD Student Yuwen Sun passed his Qualifying Exam and is now a PhD Candidate!!! Congratulations Yuwen!!! 🥳

🚨New paper alert🚨 PhD candidate Becky Reals just published her first, first author paper in @JOrthopRes ! Keep reading to find out how immobilization affects functional changes in the elbow after an injury: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jo…

@spencelake Overall, we had an amazing time exploring Santa Ana Pueblo, learning about exciting research, meeting up with old friends, and making new connections. Thanks to all the conference organizers and attendees for making this week so incredible!!!

@spencelake Finally, we attended the banquet and awards ceremony where Alexander won 2nd place in the BS level🥈 and Becky won 1st place in the PhD level🥇 Congrats to Alexander and Becky!!!

We had so much fun at SBC 2025 this week that we can't fit it all in one post! First, we saw poster presentations by Genevieve and Alexander and a podium talk by Becky 🗣️📢

Just wrapped up an incredible week presenting our senior design project at #SB3C! Grateful for the opportunity and all the support along the way—thank you! 💡🛠️ #SeniorDesign #Biomechanics #meshfam

We are SO excited for ASME SBC tomorrow🎉 Come check out our posters by undergraduates Genevieve Jarrell and Alexander Gadin and a podium talk by PhD candidate Rebecca Reals!

Patrick Hinkle, BME graduate student working in Dr. Alex Reiter's Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab, successfully defended his master's thesis titled, "Development of a Small Animal Device for Noninvasive Measurement of In Vivo Muscle-Tendon Loading." Congratulations, Patrick! 👏

More exciting news in our lab! PhD candidate Becky Reals was selected as one of three winners in the @WashU_MRC Photomicrography Image Contest for her Tol Blue stained section of the olecranon in a rat elbow. The image will be displayed on the 11th floor of the BJC-IH building📸

We are also thrilled to announce that PhD student Yuwen Sun will be permanently joining our lab🎈🥳🎉Welcome Yuwen!!

Two more undergraduate students joined us this week! Welcome to Chloe from the Washington University Women's Health Engineering Summer Research Program and Karl from the Washington University Summer Engineering Fellowship Program (WUSEF)🎉

We had a great time at the @WashU_MRC annual symposium last week! Check out our poster presentations by @PaveyShawn , @TheRealBecky547 , and Alexander Gadin below 📸

Welcome to two new undergraduate students joining us this summer, Jac Taylor and Alden Chiu from the BYU Summer Pre-Medical Research Internship Program!