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Ani is a 2025 graduate of the Northern Arizona University where she received a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences. While there, she served as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Christopher Mayerl's...

In our  paper , we wanted to understand the role of oral afferents in contributing to the biomechanical behavior of the tongue during chewing. To do this, we altered food textures and selectively...

Hannah Baker, an MS student in the Speech Pathology and Audiology Program at Miami University supervised by Dr. Donna Scarborough, used some data from our NIH funded study on treatment strategies to...

Come see talks and posters by the lab and our collaborators! If you are interested in joining my lab, send me an email so we can meet up -- we are recruiting a post-doc!

Sat, January 4

Talk: The...

The Journal of Experimental Biology highlights our paper on the effects of a soft diet on feeding behavior and chewing kinematics in pigs in their Outside JEB series. In Soft Foods Change How Pigs ...