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Melinda Cromie
Mechanical Engineering
Bio-X SIGF Fellow 2008
Profs. Scott Delp (Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering) and Mark Schnitzer (Biology, Applied Physics)
Melinda’s goal is to understand the fundamental behavior of muscle by imaging sarcomeres, the smallest units of muscle tissue that contract to generate force. Sarcomeres have never been imaged in humans because they are smaller than the resolution of current clinical imaging modalities. Using a novel microendoscopy system, their laboratory imaged sarcomeres in humans for the first time. Melinda’s current work is to use this newly developed system to quantify muscle contractile behavior in healthy humans and in individuals with spinal cord injury to improve surgical treatments that restore muscle function. |
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