News Archive
September 24, 2025
We hosted two U School sessions today!
We were visited by the grades 5 and 6 classes from St. Elizabeth Catholic Elementary. Some moments were captured by ualbertaksr on Instagram!
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September 19, 2025
Jocelyn and Jonah are going to Kananaskis to attend the 2025 Alberta Motor Control "Neurohike". Neurohike brings together students, researchers, and scientists to discuss neuromotor research, and to hike the trails. Jonah gave a presention: "Assessing the recruitment of target afferents using two common transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation pulse waveforms". This year, former student Dr. Alain Frigon was in attendance and also gave a talk.
September 2, 2025
Jonah begins the new school year as a Masters student in our lab! He will continue to work on the "exploration of what transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation stimulates"
August 25, 2025
Another manuscript published! Jess's MSc research, "Grasping at Illusions: Stimulating cutaneous afferents to create kinesthetic illusions" has been accepted and will be included in an upcoming volume of Experimental Brain Research!
July 29, 2025
New manuscript published! "Influence of phase duration and waveform on the relative recruitment of motor and sensory axons in a human peripheral nerve" has been accepted and will be included in an upcoming volume of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism! This is the findings of the research from experiments collected during Dr. Durigan's visit to our lab.
July 8, 2025
Dave, Jocelyn, and Jonah are in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador for Motoneuron 2025! The ninth biennial meeting of the International MotoNeuron Society brings together scientists, clinician-investigators and students all engaged in research focused on motoneuron disease. Stephanie had planned to attend the conference but was unable to go. Jocelyn and Jonah will present the posters at this meeting with Jonah additionally presenting a rapid-fire talk.
| Jocelyn: | Combining Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation: Are Two Techniques Better Than One? |
| Stephanie: | Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Inhibits Tibialis Anterior Motor Neurons. |
| Jonah: | Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation begins exciting soleus motor neurons when delivered at 70% resting threshold during plantar flexion contractions. |
May 5, 2025
We welcome Aaron Klita to the lab! Aaron will be with us this spring for a Directed Studies course. During this time he will run experiments and participate in all the other research activities in the lab.
April 11, 2025
The annual Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation Graduate Student Retreat & Conference, 2025 Recon XII is held today at the Matrix Hotel in downtown Edmonton. Jocelyn and Stephanie were in attendance and presented their research.
| Jocelyn: | Roses are red, violets are blue: One stimulation technique is good, but how about two? |
| Stephanie: | Does transcutaneous "Spinal cord" stimulation really stimulate the Spinal cord? |
April 2, 2025
We had our last U School day for this term today. St. Dominic Catholic Elementary School's grade 4 class and Anne Fitzgerald Catholic Elementary School's grade 5 class participated in "muscle music" and helped stimulate some muscle and brains. We had lots of fun!
April 2, 2025
Jonah has been awarded a CIHR CGS M Scholarship! This scholarship will support Jonah this fall when he starts the MSc program in our lab!
May 1, 2025
Congratulations Jonah for receiving a 2025 Undergraduate Grant from the Branch Out Neurological Foundation! Jonah will be conducting working on the project: "An exploration of what transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation stimulates" in our lab this summer.
March 17, 2025
Phil's application to the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards was successful! Phil will be working on the project: "Perception of sensory information to inform position sense of the human hand" and helping with other experiments in our lab this summer.
March 28, 2025
Research Revealed! Undergraduate Forum for Kinesiology, Exercise Science, Sport Studies and Recreation 2025 is held at the University of Alberta. The Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation is the host for this event which welcomes presenters from Universities of Alberta, Calgary, Lethbridge, and Mount Royal University. Lorelei and Jonah presented posters at this conference.
| Lorelei: | An exploration of what transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation stimulates. |
| Jonah: | The role of skin afferents during transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation. |
March 20, 2025
Today is the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation Faculty Research Day of 2025 at the University of Alberta. Lorelei and Jonah presented their poster from FURCA (see March 12 entry).
March 12, 2025
This year's annual celebration of undergraduate research will take place on March 11-13 in the Student's Union Building (SUB). We will present two posters for Festival of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (FURCA).
| Lorelei and Jonah: | An exploration of what transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation stimulates. |
| Phil: | Perception of sensory information to inform position sense of the human hand. |
March 10, 2025
Dave and Jonah are going to the University of Brescia in
Brescia, Italy to attend a workshop "High-Density Surface Electromyography: hands-on training to record, analyze, and decompose" for training in the use of High Density surface electromyography (HDsEMG).
The workshop was organised by the Neuromuscular Plasticity for Natural Motor Rehabilitation (INcEPTION) Laboratory led by
Prof. Francesco Negro, Ph.D. HDsEMG is a research technique that allows more thorough muscle information to be extracted from surface recordings and we plan to use the technique for our future studies!
January 15, 2025
We had the first U School sessions of this year today!
We were visited by the grade 7 and 7/8 classes from Highlands School . Thank you for sharing your kind impressions and for your drawings!
January 6, 2025
Happy new year! This year we start off with three practicum students in our lab this semester. Phil will collecting data for the project "Influence of perception of sensory information to inform position sense of the human hand". Jonah and Lorelei will working on several projects, including running experiments for "Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation: What and When?" and analyzing collected data.
