News Archive from 2010
November 26, 2010
We recently had a group of high school students vist the lab as part of Discovery Days put on by the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. For a brief story and pictures, follow this link.
September 8, 2010
Summer is over and the Fall semester has started. This year in the lab we have Austin Bergquist (PhD student), Yoshino Okuma (MSc student)
and we would like to welcome Andrea Bui as our new part time lab manager.Welcome back!
August 20, 2010
Today is the last day for Lisa and Sarah in the lab. Thanks for all your hard work and good luck in the upcoming school year!
August 18, 2010
Congratulations to Cam Mang for the successful defence of his MSc thesis today. Cam is going to stay on in the lab as a research assistant
over the next year and is exploring his options for a PhD in 2011. Good luck Cam in all your future endeavours!
August 15, 2010
The whole lab crew has just returned from the EPOWC meeting in Regina. Dave was a keynote speaker and gave a talk about
"Electrical Stimulation of Human Muscle: How and Why?" Austin, Cam, Yoshi and Sarah all gave excellent talks. It was Lisa and Sarah's first
scientific meeting. We would particularly like to congratulate Sarah on receiving second place in the competition for best undergraduate
presentation for her talk about how playing Guitar Hero affects cortical excitability.
August 4, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Joanna Clair!! Joanna successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Dr. Clair is going to do some sessional teaching
in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation in the upcoming year and we wish her all the best success. We will miss you.
July 14, 2010
Dave has just attended the Motoneuron Meeting 2010 in Paris
where he was invited to present some preliminary results from Yoshi's MSc thesis. The talk was entitled "Does the motor cortex contribute
to “self-sustained” firing of human motoneurons? (co-authors Cameron Mang and Yoshino Okuma).
June 20, 2010
Austin and Dave have just returned from the ISEK Meeting in Aalborg, Denmark. Dave was invited to speak at a special symposium on
Electrical Stimulation for Testing and Training in Exercise and Sports. Austin presented a poster entitled "M-wave, H-reflex and asynchronous
motor unit activity evoked by NMES applied over a nerve and over a muscle"
May 3, 2010
We would like to welcome Sarah Roshko and Lisa Ellison who will be working in the lab for the
summer. Lisa will be helping out as a part time volunteer and Sarah received a full time NSERC summer studentship.
Congratulations to Cameron Mang on the authorship of his first publication! "Changes in corticospinal excitability evoked by common peroneal nerve stimulation depend on stimulation frequency" will be published in future issue Experimental Brain Research. Good work Cam!
February 12, 2010
Congratulations to Joanna for winning an FGSR Graduate Student Teaching Award!
January 11, 2010
Happy new year and welcome to 2010! We hope everyone had a fantastic
holiday. We will be updating the website soon as 2009 was a very busy
year!
