We are interested in how people’s bodies and environmental demands influence walking and motor functioning across the lifespan.
Joined February 2020
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24 Jan 2024
@BUMotorDevLab podcast 📷 Wednesday listening 🎧 📷@BU_OTDeptProfessor Simone Gill was featured on the@centerHMP📷 healthmediapolicy.com/2024/0…
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Hot off the ✨online✨ press: our most recent publication in @BrainSci_MDPI! Congratulations to @MariaJAyoub, Laura Keegan, Dr. @HelenTager, and Dr. Simone Gill! 🎉 @BUSargent #Autism #AutismResearch #Neurotwitter #Neuroscience
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Thank you, @BUSargent! We are SO excited to share our PI's most recent publication in @Nature 🤓🎉 Check it out!
2 Dec 2021
Congrats to Prof Simone Gill @BUMotorDevLab and colleagues for their paper published in @Nature this week. In the study, footprints were compared across species to reveal the anthropological site with the oldest evidence of bipedalism in human lineage. 👣
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30 Apr 2021
It may be the last day of Occupational Therapy Month, but we're thankful for our amazing OT faculty all year-long! ❤ #OTmonth #ProudtoBU
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14 Nov 2020
One of our lab members, @MariaJAyoub, is co-hosting this season of @BUvitaminphd! Check it out!
14 Nov 2020
Have you been listening to VitaminPhD Season 3? Get to know this season's hosts @zajac_jenna and @MariaJAyoub. Both are PhDs @BUSargent where Jenna works @NeurorehabBU and Maria works @BUMotorDevLab - visit bu.edu/vitaminphd to learn more! #phdpd #podcasts #phdchat
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Warmest congratulations to our PI, Dr. Simone Gill, for being named to the #AOTA Roster of Fellows! #proudtoBU
4 Nov 2020
Including @BUSargent Professor Simone Gill, named to the #AOTA Roster of Fellows! 🌟🌟
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22 Sep 2020
Today we usher in the first day of fall 🍁 and commemorate National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. @BUSargent researchers and clinicians are working to reduce fall risk including @NeurorehabBU @BUMotorDevLab @BUGaitLab @buptc, @bu_movelab @BU_Movement
22 Sep 2020
In honor of Falls Awareness Day, we're sharing our collection of health and wellness tips and resources to help you or a loved one reduce your risk of falling. choosept.com/Falls #FallsAwarenessWeek
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31 Jul 2020
Please join us in congratulating our newest PhD graduate, @Daekyoo_Kim! Today, he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled: “Gait Stability and Adaptation in Young Adults with Different BMI Classifications”. Congratulations, Dr. Kim! 🎉
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24 Jun 2020
Today, @BUSargent will hit pause to join BU in a day of collective engagement to discuss racism and the steps necessary to fight it. #BUTalksAntiracism bu.edu/provost/diversity/col…
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
17 Jun 2020
Congratulations to #BU's newly promoted full Professors including our own Gael Orsmond in the Department of #OccupationalTherapy 🎉👏!! Orsmond is a clinical psychologist who researches the development of youth and adults with #autism. bu.edu/articles/2020/charles…
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4 Jun 2020
During this trying time, I wanted to share some good news. I’ll be joining the illustrious faculty @BU_Tweets and working with the BU family to build the BU Center for Antiracist Research. 1/4
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
25 Feb 2020
Make sure to add this one to your streaming queue. Say hello to HealthMatters, a #podcast by @BUSargent designed to showcase cutting-edge research by faculty, students, and @bualumni. spr.ly/60191mV1L
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
25 Feb 2020
ISB is proud to support @BiomechanicsDay! Check out @BiomechanicsOOM & listen to a conversation with NBD founder, Paul DeVita, to learn about what is coming for #NBD2020 and how to join the #biomechanics movement!
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26 Feb 2020
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"Publish all results, both positive and negative. People need to know what doesn’t work just as much as they need to know what works." 1 of 3 guiding principles of open science from @TempletonWorld ⬇️
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
20 Feb 2020
#UMassBoston Professor Ed Tronick is one of 3 scientists in the first episode of the @netflix docuseries Babies, premiering TOMORROW, Feb. 21. Tronick & the other scientists will be decoding the biological mysteries of the connection between adults and babies. #UMBexperts #umass
From their first steps to their first words, a fascinating new docuseries follows 15 babies during their first year of life
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
14 Feb 2020
What happens in the #brain when we walk over uneven surfaces? Time to find out...
@Ferris_vball lab #eeg #MOBI #NeuroMechanics
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
11 Feb 2020
Flip flops and other alternative footwear - we can't forget about the shoes people wear casually day-to-day. How does this style of footwear affect balance?
#footwearscience
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10 Feb 2020
Thanks! We’re so glad to be here! We’d love to analyze their gait, but don’t want to “overstep”... #sciencepuns
10 Feb 2020
Support your local researchers and participate! 👏 Don’t miss on this great opportunity to contribute to @DrJessFlex’s excellent dissertation work!
10 Feb 2020
I'm still looking for females new to running in the Boston area-do your regular long run with me and get $50! Please RT I want to graduate... @blackgirlsrun @BUMotorDevLab #Boston #BostonMarathon #running #phdlife #researchers
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BU Motor Development Laboratory retweeted
10 Feb 2020
Next #NCMpaper
Cerebral contribution to the execution, but not recalibration, of motor commands in a novel walking environment
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3200…
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