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

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

Diversity Event 


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 Comparitive 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

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