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Program
The conference will be held in plenary sessions with invited lecturers and during poster sessions during with short oral presentations (up to 5 minutes) for each participant.
Invited speakers
During our conference we will have a chance to listen outstanding scientists from all over the globe.
Final Programme:
Wednesday, 18th September
13.00 – 15.00 Registration / Accommodation
15.30 – 15:45 Opening ceremony
15.45 – 16.45 Plenary session I: theoretical advances in motor control
15.45 – 16.15 Mark L. Latash: Intra-muscle synergies: spinal mechanisms of action stability
16.15 – 16.45 Gregor Schöner: How spinal reflexes (re-)define the task of the brain in movement generation
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee break
17.15 – 18.15 Plenary session II: neural plasticity
17.15 – 17.45 Giselle Petzinger: Exercise to promote plasticity behavioral benefits in Parkinson’s disease
17.45 – 18.15 Jonathan R. Wolpaw: Neurorehabilitation in the 21st Century
19.00 Gala Dinner
Thursday, 19th September
10.00 – 11.30 Plenary session III: movement disorders and rehabilitation
10.00 – 10.30 Mindy Levin: Translation of motor control concepts to the understanding of motor impairment after central nervous system lesions
10.30 – 11.00 Katarzyna Śmiłowska: Body first or brain first. New prescription for Parkinson’s disease
11.00 – 11.30 Michael W. Jakowec: How Astrocytes mediate exercise-enhanced neuroplasticity through L-Lactate in Parkinson’s disease
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 14.00 Poster session
14.00 – Lunch
16.00 – 16.30 Plenary session IV: control of reaching and grasping
16.00 – 16.30 Eugene Tunik: Recent insights into reach to grasp coordination
16.30 – 17.00 Marco Santello: Grasping and dexterous manipulation: Sensorimotor control and neural mechanisms
17.00 – 17.30 Jeroen Smeets: Grasping is reaching with finger and thumb
19.00 Folklore evening
Friday, 20th September
10.00 – 11.00 Plenary session V: control of posture and locomotion
10.00 – 10.30 Jim Usherwood: Principles of human leg design and muscle action for work avoidance and economical powering in walking and running
10.30 – 11.00 Evangelos Christou: Postural Control in Essential Tremor: Effects of Neurostimulation
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Plenary session VI: from theory to application
11.30 – 12.00 Anatol Feldman: In contrast to the referent control of action and perception, the classical posture-movement problem cannot be solved in the biomechanical framework
12.00 – 12.30 Mathew Yarossi: Use of TMS to understand motor modularity and motor facilitation
12.30 Summary of the conference and closing ceremony
