News Archive from 2015
November 26, 2015
Congratulations to Drs. David Collins, Tanya Berry and Janice Causgrove Dunn who were granted promotion to Full Professor following review by the Faculty Evaluation Committee (FEC) today. Full professorship in addition to the extensive prestiege brings new duties and responsibilities.
November 20, 2015
USchool day! We hosted two classes from two Edmonton schools today. Much fun was had by all. A special thank you to Jennifer Andrews and Ewen Lavoie who helped us with the demonstrations. Please read the article by the PER Press for more information.
November 4, 2015
Dave was invited by the Hotchkiss Brain Institute to speak at the Spinal Cord/Nerve Injury & Pain NeuroTeam Community Research Retreat in Cochrane, Alberta. Dave presented his talk, entitled "Novel approaches for reducing fatigue of electrically-evoked contractions." The meeting brought together therapists, clinicians, researchers and individuals who have a spinal cord injury. It was a resounding success and we are all looking forward to the next time we all get together.
October 29, 2015
Dr. Paul Zehr invited by the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute to give the alumni lecture as part of the NMHI seminar series. Dr. Zehr was a PhD student at the University of Alberta and was the former principal investigator of the Human Neurophysiology Laboratory before Dave took it over.
October 23, 2015
We welcome 10 students from Fort MacKay as part of U School! These students are in town for a full week to visit different labs at the University during the day and exploring Edmonton in the evenings. This is the first session of the school year.
September 19, 2015
Our lab participated in the N.E.R.D Run! This event is a fund raiser for the Neurosciences and Mental Health Institute. We put together a team, the Locomotor C.P.G.s! The team comprised of Emily, John, Francisca, Ben, Dave and honourary member Peter Collins. Much fun was had and it was all for a good cause. See the Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Neuroscience group news page for some media coverage of the event.
September 1, 2015
We welcome three new Masters students to our lab! Emily Ainsley, John Luu, Francisca Clavería will be part of our research team. Emily is a graduate of the University of Alberta and has been in our lab this past year assisting with some of our ongoing projects. She will be supported by an NSERC CGS M Scholarship. John Luu graduated from UBC with a BSc in Honours Biophysics. He will be supported by the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship. Francisca completed a BSc in Physical Therapy at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile and has been at the University of Alberta to study Rehabilitation Science. She will be working in our lab as part of an interdisciplinary program between to study the effect of Neuromuscular Stimulation on fatigue.
August 29, 2015
As summer ends we wish Jenny, Sara, Yoshi luck as they start new programs. Jenny will start a graduate program at the University of Toronto. Sara is pursuing an after degree in Education. Yoshi is studying Nursing. Thank you for your hard work in our lab. We wish you success in your future endeavours.
June 26, 2015
Congratulations Mariska! Mariska has successfully defended her Master's Thesis, entitled "The effect of a plyometric protocol on muscle potentiation". Mariska is planning to work with youth and athletes in the ASCD program. Good luck with your future studies!
June 1, 2015
We are putting the lab together and progressively it is starting to feel like home. We have been collecting and analyzing data as soon as the first computers were connected. Here are pictures from the move.
May 5, 2015
"Summer" begins for our lab as we begin a season of non stop research. Jenny Lou and Sara Haring are in our lab with funding from AIHS and NSERC respectively. Jenny's project looks at interleaved stimulation on the quadriceps. Sara compares the effect of fatigue against different levels of contraction. Dylan Miller is here sponsored by the URI and will compare motor units between stimulation and in voluntary movements. Gavin Naicker plans to study the benefits of TMS on dystonia.
May 4, 2015
We have moved our lab to the Van Vliet Complex! We have said goodbye to our lab in the General Services Building which has been our home since 2008. Now we are closer to colleagues that study in related research areas. Please visit us in our new space! Check out the map
April 25, 2015
We presented "an introduction to our human neurophysiology laboratory" to rehabilitation students in Brazil. The talk was part of the Exercise and Rehabilitation Webinar series organized by Dr. Felipe Carpes at theUniversidade Federal do Pampa in Brazil.
April 9, 2015
We opened our lab to host DiscoverE students. 12 students from local schools visited our lab to learn about neuroscience. Our time was brief but we were able to fit "muscle music" and other experiments into one enjoyable afternoon.
March 6, 2015
Today is another double U School day! This time St. Pius X School and Lawton School students attended our laboratory as part of their weeklong U School cirriculum. We made "muscle music" again and we were delighted to spend a day learning about neuroscience.
February 13, 2015
Today is a double U School day! Two groups of fifth and sixth grade students from St. Anne School and Lauderdale School attended our laboratory as part of their U School cirriculum. We all had a lot of fun with "muscle music" and we hope everyone learned something new about neuroscience.
February 9, 2015
We were visited by a troop of Girl Guides tonight! Jen Czitron organized the visit and assisted the experiments! In the end each Girl Guide earned a science badge.
January 9, 2015
Jenny Lou is headed to the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto to participate in The Sunnybrook Research Prize competition! This competition is open to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates from across Canada who have conducted biomedical research. Jenny was selected as one of the top 10 finalists and will be presenting her work on reducing fatigue of contractions produced by neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Good luck Jenny!
January 1, 2015
Happy new year! Our application to the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation was successful! The grant, entitled "Reducing contraction fatigue after a spinal cord injury" is for three years and will help us develop ways to produce fatigue-resistant contractions for cycling on a stationary bicycle using functional electrical stimulation.
