Individuality in Movement and Locomotion: From equations to interventions

Individuality in Movement and Locomotion: from equations to interventions

When

March 20-21, 2020

Where

Emory Conference Center, 1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30329

March 20, 2020

7:00 am – 9:00 am Registration – Emory Conference Center Hotel Lobby

7:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Silverbell Pavilion

Session 1

8:30 am - 12:00pm

8:30 am – 10:30 am. Opening - Lena Ting, Ilya Nemenman, Emory University

8:45 am Monica Daley, Associate Professor UC Irvine Individuality in risk-tolerance and learning effects in non-steady locomotion of guinea fowl 9:15 am Jen Reiser, Georgia Tech Geometric phase and dimensionality reduction in locomotion

9:45 am Gordon Berman, Assistant Professor, Emory University Measuring behavior across scales 10:10 am Simon Sponberg Title TBD

10:30 am – 12 pm Posters and snacks in Silverbell Pavillion

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch – Emory Conference Center Dining Room

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1:00 pm Jose Contreras-Vidal, Professor University of Houston Brain-machine interfaces for restoration of walking: Challenges and Opportunities 1:45 pm Lena Ting, Professor Emory University Title TBD

2:15 pm Young-Hui Chang, Professor, Georgia Tech Neuromechanics and adaptation of task-level locomotor parameters

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tutorials (concurrent)

                                           Deep Lab Cut, Video-based pose estimation – Jessy Lauer – Silverbell Pavilion   
                                           Behavioral Analysis – Gordon Berman – Starvine 1
                                           Decoding Spike Trains – Ilya Nemenman and Sam Sober – Starvine 2

March 21, 2020 7:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Silverbell Pavilion

8:30 am – 10:20 8:30 am Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Studies in sensorimotor adaptation to advance motor rehabilitation 9:15 am Nidhi Seethapathi, Postdoctoral researcher, Konrad Kording Lab, University of Pennsylvania Data-driven models of human movement: from in-lab to the real world

9:45 am Trisha Kesar, Emory University Neuromechanical processes underlying clinically-applicable post-stroke gait interventions

TBD

10:20 am – 10:50 Break

11:00 am – 12:20 pm 10:50 am Greg Sawicki, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech Looking 'under the skin': how elastic exoskeletons influence musculotendon neuromechanics

  	11:20 am 	Yasemin Ozkanaydin, Dan Goldman Lab, Georgia Tech
 	 11:40 am 	Mengnan Wu, Ting Lab, Georgia Tech and Emory 

Investigating Feedforward and Feedback Strategies during Human Walking Using a Novel Robotic Environment

12:00 pm TBD

12:20 pm – 2:00 pm Closing words, lunch, and networking

Abstracts for Keynote / Featured Lectures Monica Daley Locomotion as navigation of acceptable risk landscapes: Individuality in risk-tolerance in non-steady locomotion of guinea fowl. We are interested in how animals adapt their locomotor strategies over short and long timescales to balance multiple task-level performance demands, such as speed, economy, stability and injury avoidance. Our recent study of turning maneuvers suggests that individual variation in non-steady locomotor behavior is strongly correlated with bold-shy personality expression, an indicator of risk-taking propensity. Shy individuals run slowly but fall rarely, whereas bold-individuals run faster but fall more frequently. We are currently developing a theoretical framework that includes probabilistic risk models and individual variation in risk perception and acceptable risk tolerance to predict path planning and maneuvering strategies in non-steady locomotor tasks.

Jose Contreras-Vidal Brain-machine interfaces for restoration of walking: Challenges and Opportunities Bla bla (placeholder for blurb)

Gelsy Torres-Oviedo Studies in sensorimotor adaptation to advance motor rehabilitation Effective human locomotion requires adaptation of one’s movements to compensate for sustained changes in the body or in the walking environment.  In this seminar, we will discuss methods for characterizing the human ability to adapt motor outputs and sensory inputs. We will present subject-specific behavior and group responses to highlight the value of individual characterization to develop effective gait rehabilitation strategies

Nidhi Seethapathi Data-driven models of human movement: from in-lab to the real world

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Tutorials Deep Lab Cut

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Behavioral Analysis

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Decoding Spike Trains

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Posters

Elizabeth Mendoza, Daley Lab Temperature dependence of elastic recoil mediated by a mechanical advantage latch

Tom Biasi, Mackenzie-Mathhis lab Deep Lab cut – title pending

Dulce Mariscal-Olivares, Gelsy lab

Marcela Gonzales-Rubio, Gelsy lab

TBD – 1 trainee from Jose’s lab