The Comparative Neuromuscular Biomechanics (CNB) Technical Group, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, hosted its first multi-day satellite meeting in Helsinki from July 23-25, 2025. The meeting was co-organized by Taylor Dick, Jonas Rubenson, Huub Maas, Taija Finni, and Neil Cronin.
More than 70 scientists , including 2 keynote speakers and 17 invited speakers representing 15 countries , joined us for a very warm and inspiring few days at the beautiful Bäckby Estate, just outside Helsinki.
A big thank you to our sponsors for making this meeting possible: the International Society of Biomechanics, the Finnish Federation of Learned Societies, The Company of Biologists, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Delsys, and Aurora Scientific.
Congratulations to our award winners:
- JEB Early Career Award - Francesco Luciano (University of Milan), Why on Earth don't humans gallop?
- JEB Student Award - Ethan Wold (Georgia Tech), Scaling of muscle-driven resonant mechanics across insects
- JEB Short Talk Award - Katie Knaus (Colorado School of Mines), Aponeurosis effects on soleus force-length with decreasing activation
- Delsys Student Award - Ryan Konno (University of Queensland), An experimental and modelling framework to capture neuromuscular dynamics and energetics in vivo
- ISB Early Career Talk Award - Laura Lecompte (KU Leuven), Achilles tendinopathy patients show altered intra-tendinous sliding and muscle-force sharing during dynamic calf raise variations in different horizontal foot positions
Here are all of our award winners:
And here is the full group:
We also recently held board elections , and our new board members and positions will be announced shortly.
Finally, we are pleased to share that there will be a special issue in the Journal of Biomechanics : Muscle-tendon mechanics across species , co-edited by Jonas Rubenson, Taylor Dick, and Huub Maas . This issue will include contributions from CNB speakers but is also open to submissions from researchers who did not attend the event.
