*Webinar: Predictive Simulations to Study the Plantarflexors in Gait Pathologies* *Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 10:00am Pacific Daylight Time*The ankle plantarflexor muscles play an important role in human walking. Deficits in these muscles, such as weakness and contracture, occur commonly in gait pathologies. In this webinar, Carmichael Ong from Stanford University will describe a framework for predictive simulations that produces realistic motions of walking at different speeds *de novo*, and discuss how plantarflexor weakness and contracture can be modeled within such a framework. The framework and workflow developed for this study can be extended to study other mechanisms of gait pathologies. Learn more and register <https://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.php?id=219&title=Webinar-Predictive-Simulations-to-Study-the-Plantarflexors-in-Gait-Pathologies> . *Workshop on OpenSim Moco, a New Software Providing Optimal Control Methods for Simulation Biomechanics* *July 28, 2019ISB TGCS Symposium, Alberta, Canada* The OpenSim team will be running a workshop at the 17th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics <https://isbweb.org/~tgcs/iscsb-2019/canmore.html> (TGCS 2019) to introduce OpenSim Moco, a new software package for solving common problems in simulation biomechanics, including tracking simulations, predictive simulations, and muscle-redundancy problems. Moco leverages the OpenSim software’s existing modeling capabilities and enables researchers without numerical methods expertise to apply state-of-the-art optimal control methods to their simulations. To participate in the workshop, register for TGCS <https://isbweb.org/~tgcs/iscsb-2019/canmore.html> and check the box for the OpenSim Workshop. Learn more. <https://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.php?id=217&title=Introducing-OpenSim-Moco-Optimal-Control-Methods-for-Musculoskeletal-Simulation> *Wide-Range of Research at Recent Advanced User Workshop* The NCSRR hosted 28 individuals from around the world at our Advanced User Workshop from March 26-28, 2019. During the three-day event, individuals worked closely with the NCSRR staff to advance their projects on a wide-range of topics, including analysis of spinal deformity; wheelchair propulsion, and exoskeleton design. Learn more about these and other workshop projects. <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qnOmqj4-HzLwuCABP0BHoZhNpWhp4vQQuS3vfzwc-EE/edit#slide=id.g50fa76b1a1_0_0> -- *Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.* Director of Data Science | Mobilize Center <http://mobilize.stanford.edu> Associate Director | NCSRR <http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/about/index.html> R&D Manager | OpenSim <http://opensim.stanford.edu/> Stanford University 650-498-4403 | jenhicks@stanford.edu