International Autumn School 2019
The Autumn School will take place from
Monday 7th to Friday 11th October 2019
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This year's programme is confirmed! We are thrilled to have such great speakers once again.
If you want to download a copy of the compact programme you can find it here. Also you can get a copy of the full programme and abstracts in the booklet here.
Programme at a glance
Day 1 - Monday 7th October
Modelling and Muscle Synergies
09:30 to 10:30 Gerald Loeb – University of South Carolina, USA
"Learning to use muscles"
11:00 to 12:00 Christian Rode – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GER
"Current view of muscle mechanics - Mechanisms and models"
13:30 to 14:30 Markus Böl – Technische Universität Braunschweig, GER
"Aspects of active muscle modelling: Multi scale/field modelling in biomechanics"
15:00 to 16:00 Boris Prilutsky – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
"Neuromechanical modelling of locomotion: A tool for understanding muscle and
kinematic synergies"
Day 2 - Tuesday 8th October
Muscle synergies and MTU Interaction
09:30 to 10:30 Alessandro Santuz – Dalhousie University, CAN
"Robust vertebrate locomotion in challenging settings"
11:00 to 12:00 Mark Latash – Penn State University, USA
"Controlled stability of action by motor synergies"
13:30 to 14:30 Shinya Aoi – Kyoto University, JPN
"Neuromusculoskeletal models based on the muscle synergy hypothesis for
understanding adaptive motor control in locomotion"
15:00 to 16:00 Natalie Holt – University of California, Irvine, USA
"Crossbridge-complience interactions: Implications for muscle physiology and
organismal performance"
Day 3 - Wednesday 9th October
MTU Interaction and Connective Tissue
09:30 to 10:30 Nikolai Konow – University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
"Muscle tendon interaction: Beyond power amplification"
11:00 to 12:00 Neil Cronin – University of Jyväskylä, FIN
"MTU analysis methods: Past, present and future"
13:30 to 14:30 Carolyn Eng – Yale University, USA
"Stretch your imagination: Exploring non-tendinous sources of elastic energy
storage in the musculoeskeletal system"
15:00 to 16:00 Shantanu Sinha – University of California, San Diego, USA
"Structure-functional modelling of the normal and atrophied (unilateral limb
suspension and aging) human MSK system using novel MR imaginng techniques"
Thursday 10th October
Connective Tissue, Connective Tissue Adaptation
09:30 to 10:30 Rod Barrett – Griffith University, AUS
"Targeted achilles tendon training and rehabilitation"
11:00 to 12:00 Mette Hansen – Aarhus University, DEN
"Influence of gender and female hormones on tendon and lilgaments"
13:30 to 14:30 Can Yucesoy – Bogazici University, TUR
"Muscle related connective tissue affects muscular force production"
15:00 to 16:00 Marco Narici – University of Padova, ITA
"Muscle and tendon adaptations to chronic loading and unloading"
Friday 11th October
Connective Tissue, Eccentric Loading and Balance Control
09:30 to 10:30 Jens Bojsen-Møller – Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, NOR
"Eccentric loading, -Would the tendon know?"
11:00 to 12:00 Martino Franchi – University of Padua, ITA
"From molecules to morphology and function: An overview of skeletal muscle
adaptations to eccentric loading"
13:30 to 14:30 Abigail Mackey – Copenhagen University - Bispebjerg Hospital, DEN
"Human skeletal muscle connective tissue during myofibre repair and at the
myotendinous junction"
15:00 to 16:00 Stéphane Baudry – Université Libre de Bruxelles, BEL
"Implication of age-related changes in leg propioception for postural control"