Andrew A. Biewener

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Andrew Biewener is the Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Faculty Director of the Concord Field Station.[1] He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2]

Training and career[edit]

Born in 1952, Biewener began his zoological studies at Duke University in the early 1970s. He then pursued graduate studies in the field of comparative biomechanics, receiving a Master's (1981) and PhD (1982) from Harvard University,[3] studying under the direction of C. Richard Taylor and Thomas A. McMahon. During his graduate studies, he had the opportunity to collaborate with R. McNeill Alexander from Leeds University and Lance E. Lanyon from the University of Bristol. In 1982, he joined the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at The University of Chicago as a faculty member, serving as department chair from 1995 to 1998. In 1998, he returned to Harvard to become the director of the Concord Field Station and a professor of biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB);[4] he served as OEB's department chair from 2001 to 2010.  Biewener was president of the American Society of Biomechanics from 2001 to 2002.[5]

Research[edit]

As a comparative biomechanist, Biewener has studied the scaling of musculoskeletal design in mammals,[6][7] adaptive bone remodeling,[8][9] the in vivo contractile function of skeletal muscles during terrestrial locomotion in birds and mammals[10][11][12] as well as during flight in birds,[13][14][15] and the neuromechanical control of locomotor movement.[16][17][18] The latter has involved collaborations with biorobotic engineers.[19][20]  His research has also involved experimental validation and development of Hill-type muscle models,[21][22][23] commonly used in musculoskeletal modeling and simulations of movement to improve rehabilitation approaches for human subjects following physical injury or disease.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Andrew A. Biewener". oeb.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  2. ^ Writer, Juan Siliezar Harvard Staff (2019-11-26). "9 Harvard researchers named AAAS Fellows". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  3. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE: Andrew A. Biewener" (PDF). biewenerlab.oeb.harvard.edu. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Chicago Biology Professor Accepts Tenured Position | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  5. ^ "Leadership". American Society of Biomechanics. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  6. ^ Biewener, Andrew A. (1989-07-07). "Scaling Body Support in Mammals: Limb Posture and Muscle Mechanics". Science. 245 (4913): 45–48. doi:10.1126/science.2740914. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 2740914.
  7. ^ Biewener, Andrew A. (2005-05-01). "Biomechanical consequences of scaling". Journal of Experimental Biology. 208 (9): 1665–1676. doi:10.1242/jeb.01520. ISSN 1477-9145. PMID 15855398.
  8. ^ Biewener, Andrew A.; Swartz, Sharon M.; Bertram, John E. A. (November 1986). "Bone modeling during growth: Dynamic strain equilibrium in the chick tibiotarsus". Calcified Tissue International. 39 (6): 390–395. doi:10.1007/BF02555177. ISSN 0171-967X. PMID 3100003. S2CID 36683656.
  9. ^ Biewener, A. A.; Fazzalari, N. L.; Konieczynski, D. D.; Baudinette, R. V. (July 1996). "Adaptive changes in trabecular architecture in relation to functional strain patterns and disuse". Bone. 19 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1016/8756-3282(96)00116-0. PMID 8830980.
  10. ^ Biewener, Andrew A.; Konieczynski, David D.; Baudinette, Russell V. (1998-06-01). "In Vivo Muscle Force–Length Behavior During Steady-Speed Hopping in Tammar Wallabies". Journal of Experimental Biology. 201 (11): 1681–1694. doi:10.1242/jeb.201.11.1681. hdl:2440/5222. ISSN 0022-0949. PMID 9576879.
  11. ^ McGuigan, M. Polly; Yoo, Edwin; Lee, David V.; Biewener, Andrew A. (2009-07-01). "Dynamics of goat distal hind limb muscle–tendon function in response to locomotor grade". Journal of Experimental Biology. 212 (13): 2092–2104. doi:10.1242/jeb.028076. ISSN 1477-9145. PMC 2702455. PMID 19525436.
  12. ^ Daley, Monica A.; Biewener, Andrew A. (2003-09-01). "Muscle force-length dynamics during level versus incline locomotion: a comparison of in vivo performance of two guinea fowl ankle extensors". Journal of Experimental Biology. 206 (17): 2941–2958. doi:10.1242/jeb.00503. ISSN 1477-9145. PMID 12878663.
  13. ^ Dial, K. P.; Biewener, A. A.; Tobalske, B. W.; Warrick, D. R. (November 1997). "Mechanical power output of bird flight". Nature. 390 (6655): 67–70. doi:10.1038/36330. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4313362.
  14. ^ Tobalske, B. W.; Hedrick, T. L.; Dial, K. P.; Biewener, A. A. (January 2003). "Comparative power curves in bird flight". Nature. 421 (6921): 363–366. doi:10.1038/nature01284. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 12540899. S2CID 4390156.
  15. ^ Hedrick, Tyson L.; Tobalske, Bret W.; Biewener, Andrew A. (2003-04-15). "How cockatiels ( Nymphicus hollandicus ) modulate pectoralis power output across flight speeds". Journal of Experimental Biology. 206 (8): 1363–1378. doi:10.1242/jeb.00272. ISSN 1477-9145. PMID 12624171. S2CID 14084193.
  16. ^ Daley, Monica A.; Biewener, Andrew A. (2006-10-17). "Running over rough terrain reveals limb control for intrinsic stability". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (42): 15681–15686. doi:10.1073/pnas.0601473103. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1622881. PMID 17032779.
  17. ^ Daley, Monica A.; Voloshina, Alexandra; Biewener, Andrew A. (2009-06-01). "The role of intrinsic muscle mechanics in the neuromuscular control of stable running in the guinea fowl: Neuromuscular control of stable running". The Journal of Physiology. 587 (11): 2693–2707. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.171017. PMC 2714031. PMID 19359369.
  18. ^ Lin, Huai-Ti; Ros, Ivo G.; Biewener, Andrew A. (2014-07-06). "Through the eyes of a bird: modelling visually guided obstacle flight". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 11 (96): 20140239. doi:10.1098/rsif.2014.0239. ISSN 1742-5689. PMC 4032538. PMID 24812052.
  19. ^ Lee, D. V.; Biewener, A. A. (2011-07-01). "BigDog-Inspired Studies in the Locomotion of Goats and Dogs". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51 (1): 190–202. doi:10.1093/icb/icr061. ISSN 1540-7063. PMID 21659392.
  20. ^ Barry, Andrew J.; Jenks, Tim; Majumdar, Anirudha; Lin, Huai-Ti; Ros, Ivo G.; Biewener, Andrew A.; Tedrake, Russ (May 2014). "Flying between obstacles with an autonomous knife-edge maneuver". 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Hong Kong, China: IEEE. p. 2559. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907217. hdl:1721.1/78535. ISBN 978-1-4799-3685-4. S2CID 3141719.
  21. ^ Lee, Sabrina S. M.; Arnold, Allison S.; Miara, Maria de Boef; Biewener, Andrew A.; Wakeling, James M. (2013-09-03). "Accuracy of gastrocnemius muscles forces in walking and running goats predicted by one-element and two-element Hill-type models". Journal of Biomechanics. 46 (13): 2288–2295. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.06.001. ISSN 0021-9290. PMC 4339187. PMID 23871235.
  22. ^ Dick, Taylor J. M.; Biewener, Andrew A.; Wakeling, James M. (2017-01-01). "Comparison of human gastrocnemius forces predicted by Hill-type muscle models and estimated from ultrasound images". Journal of Experimental Biology. 220 (Pt 9): 1643–1653. doi:10.1242/jeb.154807. ISSN 1477-9145. PMC 5450802. PMID 28202584.
  23. ^ Lai, Adrian K. M.; Biewener, Andrew A.; Wakeling, James M. (November 2018). "Metabolic cost underlies task-dependent variations in motor unit recruitment". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 15 (148): 20180541. doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0541. ISSN 1742-5689. PMC 6283986. PMID 30464057.
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