Almonacid JA, DomÃnguez-Rivera SA, Konno RN, Nigam N, Ross SA, Tam C, Wakeling JM. (2022) A three-dimensional model of skeletal muscle tissues. (Accepted in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics) [arXiv:2207.02421]
Konno RN, Nigam N, Wakeling JM, Ross SA. (2022) The contributions of extracellular matrix and sarcomere properties to passive muscle stiffness in cerebral palsy. Front. Physiol. 12:804188 https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.804188 [Preprint]
Konno RN, Nigam N, Wakeling JM. (2021) Modelling extracellular matrix and cellular contributions to whole muscle mechanics. PLOS ONE 16(4): e0249601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249601
Wakeling JM, Ross SA, Ryan DS, Bolsterlee B, Konno R, DomÃnguez S, Nigam N. (2020) The Energy of Muscle Contraction. I. Tissue Force and Deformation During Fixed-End Contractions. Front Physiol. 11:813. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00813
Highlighted Presentations
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Invited Presentations
Three dimensional modelling of passive skeletal muscle mechanics in cerebral palsy. World Congress on Biomechanics. Taipei, Taiwan (Virtual). July 2022.
Oral Presentations
Three dimensional and microstructural effects in cerebral palsy affected muscle. North American Congress on Biomechanics. Ottawa, Canada. August 2022.
Continuum mechanical modelling of muscle affected by cerebral palsy. PIMS-SFU Computational Math Seminar. Simon Fraser University. September 2021.
The effects of extracellular matrix and sarcomere length changes in cerebral palsy on muscle stiffness. International Society of Biomechanics - 2021 Congress. Virtual. July 2021.
The influence of cerebral palsy on skeletal muscle stiffness. Northwest Biomechanics Symposium. Virtual. July 2021.
Modelling the multiscale phenomena of diseased skeletal muscle. CAIMS 2021 - Minisymposium on Numerical Methods in Muscle Modelling and its Applications. Virtual. June 2021.
Poster Presentations
Predicting skeletal muscle energetics in vivo using physiologically based models. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Seattle, USA. January 2024.
A mathematical model for skeletal muscle using MRI data. SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences. Pittsburgh, USA (Virtual). July 2022.
A mechanical model for skeletal muscle affected by cerebral palsy. SIAM PNW Biennial Conference. Vancouver, USA. May 2022. (Second place in poster competition)
Multiscale contributions to skeletal muscle mechanics. Fontiers in Biophysics. Virtual. June 2021.
Microstructural Changes Influence Whole Muscle Function: The Effects of Cerebral Palsy. BPK Research Day. Simon Fraser University (Virtual). April 2021.
Thesis
Skeletal muscle and cerebral palsy: morphological consequences on muscle mechanics. (2022). Simon Fraser University. Masters in Science (with distinction).
Homogenization of the Constitutive Equations for Skeletal Muscle. (2020). University of British Columbia. Bachelor's Honours.