News Archive from 2006
December 21, 2006
Manuscript accepted! Our manuscript entitled "Influence of ankle position and voluntary contraction on Mmax recorded from soleus and tibialis anterior" has been accepted for publication in Muscle and Nerve. We found that maximal M-waves were significantly larger at short compared to long muscle lengths. This work was conducted by former student Alain Frigon (co-authors Timothy Carroll, Kelvin Jones, Paul Zehr and David Collins).
December 12, 2006
Dave just returned from the 10th annual meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society in Las Vegas. The meeting focussed on the use of electrical stimulation for the treatment of pain and movement disorders.
November 30, 2006
Congratulations to Robin Gibbons!! Today Robin rowed the equivalent of 50 km on his FES-adapted indoor rowing machine! To put this in perspective, the English channel is 35.2 km and a running marathon is 42.1 km. In total this year only 165 people worldwide have successfully rowed the marathon distance. Robin's times were 4:02:56 (35.2km), 4:55:46 (42.1km) and 5:49:00 (50km). We look forward to developing our collaboration with Robin (and others) on FES-rowing as Robin continues to push the boundaries!
Octber 23, 2006
Joanna, Jesse, Olle and Dave were in Atlanta last week for the XXXVI Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. All poster presentations were well received and we are looking forward to next year's meeting in San Diego!
September 25, 2006
Joanna, Jesse, Olle and Alex (Brown) just returned from the XXXIV "Neurohike" meeting in Kananaskis, Alberta. This meeting included a special celebration of the career of Dr. Anthony Taylor (London, England) and included participants from around the world.
September 18, 2006
Professor Brian Andrews and Mr. Robin Gibbons are visiting us from London (England) this week to participate in the FES-Rowing forum held jointly by our lab and The Steadward Centre. The forum is held in part to re-establish our collaboration on functional electrical stimulation (FES) assisted rowing.
August 15, 2006
Jesse and Dave are back from the World Congress of Biomechanics in Munich. The meeting went well and the visit to Germany was enjoyable. We regret that Lisa Yates will be leaving the lab shortly to start a program in Prosthetics and Orthotics in Vancouver. Good luck Lisa!
July 27, 2006
Jesse and Dave will be presenting data at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Germany (Munich July 29th-Aug 4th). Leo Carroll's time in the lab is rapidly coming to a close. Best of luck with volleyball in Austria!! The rest of the gang are busy collecting and writing enjoying the beautiful Albertan summer weather.
July 4, 2006
We would like to welcome Alexandra Martin to the lab. Alexandra is a visiting MSc
student from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and will be with us until Christmas.
June 20, 2006
We would like to congratulate the Edmonton Oilers on their spectacular run to game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs!
June 8, 2006
It's been a busy month! Joanna Clair started experiments using electrical stimulation to generate contractions for people with spinal cord injury. Alex Tamm started using our new image-guided cortical stimulation system to activate specific regions of the brain. Alex Brown started investigating reaction times during sprint starts of athletes from the University sprint team. Jesse Dean continues his experiments on the dynamics of human bouncing. The rest of us continue to write and collect data on various projects.
June 7, 2006
Austin Bergquist started working this month as a part-time FES assistant at The Steadward Centre (TSC). Today he and others from TSC were interviewed for the "Health Matters" segment on Global News.
May 1, 2006
Summer is here! This week we welcome Leo Carroll and Keith Lawson to the lab.
We look forward to a productive summer of research.
April 28, 2006
This week Olle and Scott Butcher started collecting data to investigate factors that limit muscular performace in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This work is part of Scott's PhD thesis. Scott is co-supervised by Dr. S. Petersen (PER) and Dr. R. L. Jones (Medicine).
April 11, 2006
Publications accepted! Manuscripts arising from Piotr Klakowicz's and Evan Baldwin's MSc theses have recently been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurophysiology and Journal of Applied Physiology, respectively.
April 3, 2006
Dr. Collins presented a seminar today at the University of Guelph in the Faculty where he did his Undergraduate and Masters degrees (Human Health and Nutritional Sciences).
March 21, 2006
Great scholarship news! Alex Brown and Alex Tamm received NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards to work in the lab this summer. Olle Lagerquist received a NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS-D) award for his PhD work.
February 1, 2006
Joanna, Jesse, Olle and Dave have just returned from the winter meeting of the Canadian Physiological Society in Lake Louise. Presentations were well received and a good time was had by all.
January 15, 2006
Dr. Kelvin Jones has kindly contributed his BrainSight system to be used in conjunction with our MagPro transcranial magnetic stimulator. Dr. Roch Comeau of Rogue Research was here today to train us on this exciting new system. The BrainSight uses pre-recorded MRI images and infrared cameras to track the movement of the stimulating coil to allow precise stimulation of targeted regions of the brain.
January 9, 2006
Dr. Timothy Carroll is here with us from the University of Sydney and gave a talk this afternoon.
