International Autumn School 2024
The Autumn School will take place from Monday 30th September to Wednesday 2nd October 2024
As usual, the participation is free of charge!
This year's programme is confirmed! We are thrilled to have such great speakers once again.
The detailed programme and abstracts of presentations are available in the booklet.
If you would like to attend, you may help our planning by registering using the button below.
Registration is non-binding.
Addresses and GPS coordinates
Philippstraße 13, building 11, 10115 Berlin
Lecture Hall 5 (Room 1.26)
52°31'36.8"N 13°23'00.7"E
Further details on directions and how to reach the venue using public transportation can be found here.
Programme at a glance
Day 1 - Monday 30th September
Muscle and connective tissues
13:45 to 14:00 Welcome and opening
14:00 to 15:00 Tobias Siebert [University of Stuttgart, DEU]
"The relationship between muscle structure, force generation, and muscle function"
15:30 to 16:30 Chloé Yeung [Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, DNK]
"Circadian clock regulation of tendon matrix homeostasis and its disruption with tendinopathy"
17:00 to 18:00 Dominic Farris [University of Exeter, GBR]
"Unwinding the windlass: examining active and passive tissue contributions to human foot mechanics"
18:30 to 19:30 Owen Beck [University of Texas at Austin, USA]
"Stiffen up for more economical locomotion"
19:45 Get Together & Barbecue
Day 2 - Tuesday 1st October
Muscle and connective tissues / control and mechanics of steady & unsteady locomotion
09:30 to 10:30 Huub Maas [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NLD]
"Sensory consequences of muscle mechanical conditions"
11:00 to 12:00 Christian Couppé [Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, DNK]
"Tendon plasticity and exercise in tendon overuse"
13:30 to 14:30 Kiros Karamanidis [University of Koblenz, DEU]
"Locomotor adaptations from mechanical- and virtual-based perturbation exercises"
15:00 to 16:00 Syn Schmitt [University of Stuttgart, DEU]
"Autonomous muscle-driven motion in neuromechanics and biorobotics - learning to point, balance, walk, jump, reduce tremor, flex the spine and fall into the bathtub"
16:30 to 17:30 Ramona Ritzmann [AO Foundation, CHE]
"Neuromuscular adaptation to disuse - from space to clinic"
18:00 Lab Tour
19:30 Food & Drinks
Day 3 - Wednesday 2nd October
Motor control in healthy and pathological conditions
09:30 to 10:30 Vivian Weerdesteyn [Radboud University, NLD]
"Reactive balance control in health and disease"
11:00 to 12:00 Marco Taubert [Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, DEU]
"Computational neuroanatomy of motor learning"
13:30 to 14:30 Hendrik Schmidt [Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DEU]
"FOR5177 - The dynamics of the spine: mechanics, morphology, and motion towards a comprehensive diagnosis of low back pain"
15:00 to 16:00 Alessandro Del Vecchio [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, DEU]
"Neural control of synergistic motor neuron pools: implications for health and disease"
Funding