Program
The American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting will take place in Pittsburgh, PA from August 13 – 16, 2025.
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Program Overview
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9:00-13:00
Workshops/Tutorials
Empowering educators: Harnessing AI to transform your pedagogy
Your networking plan for ASB 2025
Rigid body registration and kinematic calculations in dynamic radiographic datasets using SlicerAutoscoper (9:00 – 11:00 only)
Funding for biomechanics research (11:00 – 13:00 only)
13:00
Lunch on Own
14:00-18:00
Workshops/Tutorials Cont.
Myoassist: Simulating human neuromechanics and assistive devices in myosuite
Women in Biomechanics Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Distilling dynamics of human movement from experimental data
17:30-18:00
Student Welcome Event
18:00-19:30
Opening Reception
19:30-23:00
Student Night Out
The Puttery (1415 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222)
All Day
Participant Research Study
07:00
Fun run
08:00-09:00
Registration opens
09:00-10:30
Session Block 1
Symposium 1: The importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Research
Symposium 2: Neuromechanics in Action: Integrating the Neural Control and Biomechanics of Walking
Oral 1.1: Osteoarthritis from thumb to ankle
Oral 1.2: Advances in biomechanics with the power of AI & ML
Thematic 1: Exoskeletons in Gait
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:15
Announcements
11:15-12:15
Keynote #1: Rory Cooper
12:15-13:45
Lunch at Exhibits
Mentor/Mentee Event (Ticketed)
13:45-14:45
Award Lectures: Pre-Doc, JRFA, Early Career & Up-and-Comer
Three-minute Thesis
14:45
Transition
15:00-16:30
Session Block 2
O2.1: Baseball biomechanics from the mound to the box
O2.2: Back to basics: Measuring mechanics of skeletal muscle
O2.3: Slips, trips, and falls
Thematic 2: Wearables for detection and rehabilitation
16:30-18:30
Poster Session 1 & Exhibitors
18:30-20:00
Women in Science (Ticketed)
All Day
Participant Research Study
07:30 onwards
Registration opens
08:00-09:30
Session Block 3
ASB Debate: The essential capabilities and knowledge exists in biomechanics to draw meaningful insights from big data: For or Against?
Symposium 3: Advancing our understanding of the biomechanics of real-world wheelchair use: Perspectives, tools, and innovations for improving health and quality of life
Oral 3.1: “Seeing” inside the body: Imaging technology for data collection
Thematic 3: The “Other things” that influence balance
09:30-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-10:15
Announcements
10:15-11:15
Keynote #2: Suzanne Maher
11:15-12:45
Lunch at Exhibits
Community Lunch (formerly known as Diversity Lunch)
12:45-14:15
Session Block 4
Awards Session: Goel, Pytel & Founders
Oral 4.1: Maneuverability and Coordination
Thematic 4: Knee deep in ACL reconstruction biomechanics
14:15
Transition
14:30-16:00
Session Block 5
Awards Talk: Journal of Biomechanics and Clinical Biomechanics Awards
Oral 5.1: Rehabilitation and interventions
Oral 5.2: Gait and cognition
Thematic 5: AI & ML for Biomechanics and Clinical predictions
16:00-18:00
Poster Session 2 & Exhibitors
17:00-18:00
Job Market Poster Session
18:00-19:00
Free time
19:00-21:00
Dinner Banquet (Ticketed)
All Day
Participant Research Study
07:45
Registration opens
08:00-09:30
Session Block 6
Oral 6.1: Neuromuscular changes with age
Oral 6.2: Ergonomics: Where biomechanics meets the real world
Oral 6.3: Advances in prosthetics
Thematic 6: Animal and Comparative biomechanics
09:30-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-10:15
Announcements
10:15-11:15
Award Lecture: Borelli
11:15-12:45
Lunch at Exhibits
Professional Development Roundtable
12:45-14:15
Session Block 7
Hay Symposium
Oral 7.1: Arms and Trunk
Oral 7.2: Methods of biomechanics data collection and validation
Thematic 7: Aging Bodies: From biomechanics to physiology
14:15
Transition
14:30-16:00
Session Block 8
Symposium 4: Walk this way, reach that way: Exchanges between upper- and lower-limb biomechanics
Symposium 5: Integrating patients’ lived experiences into your biomechanics researcher
Oral 8.1: Tread carefully: Unpacking running in biomechanics
Thematic 8: Musculoskeletal modeling for clinical applications
16:00
Transition
16:15-17:45
Business Meeting