Workshop 1: MCA Event – Personal value workshop for mid-career academics

Wednesday 24 June, 09:00 – 12:00

Organiser(s): Kylie Tucker ¹
¹ The University of Queensland

 

Workshop 2:  HDEMG decomposition for deciphering the neural codes in the spinal cord and brain: from theory to practice

Wednesday 24 June, 13:00 – 14:30

Organiser(s): Ales Holobar ¹
¹ University of Maribor

 

Workshop 3: Fine sensorimotor control, skill, and learning in the context of microsurgery

Wednesday 24 June, 14:45 – 16:15

Organiser(s): Matti Itkonen ¹
¹ University of Eastern Finland

 

Workshop 4: Hands-on muscle neuromechanics: Practical integration of ultrasound and HD-EMG

Thursday 25 June, 10:00 – 11:30

Organiser(s): Patricio Pincheira ¹, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes ²,  András Hegyi ³
¹ The University of Southern Queensland, ² University of Birmingham, ³ Hungarian University of Sports Science

 

Workshop 5: From HDsEMG-based motor unit identification to coherence analysis: How to estimate the common synaptic input to spinal motor neurons

Thursday 25 June, 13:00 – 14:30

Organiser(s): Francesco Negro ¹, Giacomo Valli ¹
¹ Università degli Studi di Brescia

 

Workshop 6: From surface to needle EMG: Confronting the gap between research and clinical practice

Friday 26 June, 13:00 – 14:30

Organiser(s): Justus Marquetand ¹
¹ University of Tübingen

 

Workshop 7: Collecting HD-EMG and EEG signals in challenging conditions: Principles, engineering, and practical solutions for high-quality signal detection

Friday 26 June, 10:00 – 11:30

Organiser(s): Alberto Botter ¹, Giacinto Luigi Cerone ¹, Marco Gazzoni ¹, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes ², Greg Pearcey ³, Harri Piitulainen ⁴, Taian Vieira ¹
¹ Politecnico di Torino, ² University of Birmingham, ³ Memorial University of Newfoundland, ⁴ University of Jyväskylä

 

 

How HDSEMG is propelling ALS biomarker research forward

James Bashford ¹, Jakob Škarabot ², Anna Carobin ¹, Giuseppina Del Duca ³, Zuyu Du ^3
1 King’s College London, ² Loughborough University, ³ Trinity College Dublin

 

Impact of altered sensory inputs on sensorimotor integration-from reflexes to cortical connectivity

Kemal Türker ¹, Bernadette Murphy ², Hailey Tabbert ³, Heidi Haavik ⁴, Imran Khan Niazi ^4
1 İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi, ² Ontario Tech University, ³ Ontario Tech Univeristy, ⁴ New Zealand College of Chiropractic

 

Modern EMG technologies for understanding the neural control of movement and for neural interfacing

Vishal Rawji ¹, Ciara Gibbs ¹, Agnese Grison ¹, Jaime Ibañez Pereda ^2
1 Imperial College London, ² BSICoS Group, I3A, University of Zaragoza

 

From the outside to the inside: inferring altered muscle-tendon properties and structure from kinematics, kinetics and electromyography

Ursula Trinler ¹, Hans Kainz ², Kenneth Meijer ³, Simon-Henri Schless ⁴, Nathalie Alexander ^5
1 Head of Motion Analysis Laboratory, BG Klinik Ludwigshafen, Germany, ² University of Vienna, ³ Maastricht University, ⁴ Tel Aviv University, ⁵ Laboratory for Motion Analysis, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

MUnitQuest: Towards open, transparent, and reproducible validation of motor unit identification

Thomas Klotz ¹, Paul Hodges ², Robin Rohlén ³, Pranav Mamidanna ³, Seyed Yahya Shirazi ^4
1 University of Stuttgart, ² The University of Queensland, ³ Imperial College London, ⁴ University of California San Diego

 

International Motoneuron Society Symposium: motoneuron physiology in people with motor impairment

Allison Hyngstrom ¹, Laura McPherson ^{2, 3}, Alex Benedetto ⁴, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes ⁵, James Beauchamp ^6
1 Marquette University, ² Florida International University, ³ Washington University in St. Louis, ⁴ Northwestern University, ⁵ University of Birmingham, ⁶ Carnegie Mellon University

 

Magnetomyography, a contactless alternative to EMG using quantum sensors

Joonas Iivanainen ¹, Justus Marquetand ², Thomas Klotz ³, Tai Otani ⁴, Stefan Hartwig ^5
1 Aalto University, ² University of Tübingen, ³ University of Stuttgart, ⁴ Institute of Science Tokyo, ⁵ Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Control of muscle force by the distribution of shared synaptic inputs within and across pools of motor units

Roger Enoka ¹, Marius Osswald ², Dylan Carter ³, Nikos Varvariotis ^4
1 University of Colorado Boulder, ² Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, ³ Imperial College, ⁴ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at Serres

 

Is rate of force development (RFD) really ‘functionally relevant’ (and if so, which RFD and for whom)?

Nicola Maffiuletti ¹, Gennaro Boccia ², Luca Ruggiero ³, Per Aagaard ^4
1 Schulthess Clinic, ² University of Turin, ³ University of Konstanz, ⁴ University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

 

Strain and shear in eccentric contractions: Injury and injury prevention

Kazunori Nosaka ¹, Anthony Blazevich ¹, Taija Finni ^2
1 Edith Cowan University, ² University of Jyväskylä

 

Preserving skeletal muscle mass and function during disuse: the power of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES)

Chris McNeil ¹, Marlou Dirks ², Nicola Maffiuletti ³, Barbara Tempert-De Haan ^4
1 University of British Columbia, Okanagan, ² Wageningen University, ³ Schulthess Clinic, ⁴ Medisch Spectrum Twente

 

Assessing muscle function during movement – challenges and perspectives from electrophysiology and ultrasound imaging

Walter Herzog ¹, Anderson Oliveira ², Alberto Botter ³, Francesco Cenni ⁴, Brent Raiteri ^5
1 University of Calgary, ² Aalborg University, ³ Politecnico di Torino, ⁴ University of Jyväskylä, ⁵ Ruhr University Bochum

 

Surface electromyography in ergonomics. Past, present and future applications

Tessy Luger ¹, Pascal Madeleine ², Markus Koch ³, Benjamin Steinhilber ⁴, Karen Søgaard ^5
1 Eberhard Karls University and University Hospital of Tübingen, ² Aalborg University, ³ National Institute of Occupational Health, ⁴ Eberhard Karls University and University Hospital of Tübingen, ⁵ University of Southern Denmark

 

Exoskeletons in gait assistance: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions

Juha-Pekka Kulmala ¹, Ivan Vujaklija ², Maxwell Thurston ³, Mika Peltoniemi ³, Madalina Moscu ^4
1 Helsinki University Hospital, ² Aalto University, ³ Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland., ⁴ Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

 

From brain to movement: Normal trunk motor control and motor adaptations in clinical populations

Hugo Massé-Alarie ¹, Shin-Yi Chloe Chiou ², Paul Strutton ³, Mikaël Desmons ⁴, Christoph Bauer ^5
1 Cirris – Université Laval, ² University of Birmingham, ³ Imperial College London, ⁴ Université Limoges, ⁵ University Lucerne

 

Advanced neuromuscular imaging: insights into muscle quality

Melissa Hooijmans ¹, Patricio Pincheira ², Zhongzheng Wang ³, Kaat Desloovere ⁴, Ruoli Wang ^5
1 Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ² The University of Southern Queensland, ³ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, ⁴ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ⁵ KTH MoveAbility, Department of Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

 

Closed-loop neurorehabilitation across the lifespan: From motoneurons to movement

Alessandro Del Vecchio ¹, Jaime  Ibañez Pereda ², Andrea Casolo ³, Raul Sîmpetru ¹, Pauline Wittermann ^{1, 4}, Marcos  Sacristán ⁵, Blanca  Delgado ^5
1 Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, ² BSICoS Group, I3A, University of Zaragoza, ³ University of Padua, ⁴ FAU Erlangen Nurnberg, ⁵ University of Zaragoza