Hats off to these fine folks who collected motor unit data from 52 (!) master’s athletes over the weekend! Fantastic work! Thanks for the invitation, and apologies if I got in your way 😂 Sophie Jenz Tamara Valenčič HaydnThomason Jakob Škarabot Jessica Piasecki Mathew Piasecki

A busy few days... Testing BMAF / Masters Athletics UK championships Hosting the Physical activity and endocrine system conference Society for Endo Another Menopause PPI event MyAge national research network The Royal Society Thank you to everyone involved. It's a pleasure to be able to call this work 🙌

Way to go Alex from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern Physical Therapy CJ Heckman! Excellent poster presentations ISCoS Meetings about the effect of transcutaneous spinal electrical stimulation on clonus and motor unit firing properties after spinal cord injury!

Excited to share our first rendition of the sombrero paper. Let us know what you think! Happy with all feedback! Greg Pearcey Franky Black &ObaidKhurram &CJHeckman &JulesDewald doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

Check out our preprint characterizing MUs in individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke during voluntary contractions in the paretic and nonparetic limb, as well as during involuntary flexion synergy-driven contractions. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We show that adjustments in vastus lateralis (VL) and medialis (VM) motor unit discharge rate during submaximal isometric contractions to failure are task- and intensity-dependent. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Jakob Škarabot Paul Ansdell Callum G Brownstein Aleš Holobar Padraig Spillane

Sex Differences in Neuromuscular Ageing: The Role of Sex Hormones Our new review in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/abst…

New work from Matheus Machado Gomes, Sophie Jenz, James (Drew) Beauchamp, Franky Black, CJ, and I. Probing the competing effects of inhibition and excitation via co-contraction, we found that the motor unit output to achieve the same global EMG was different than during an isometric effort

🔹️Incredibly excited and proud to finally be able to share this paper with the world! ☺️🎉 🔹️We show that discharge rate adjustments of the vastii motor units during isometric contractions to failure depend on contraction intensity and modality.🤓 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

ECRs attending #ISEK2024, join us for the "ECR Workshop - By Trainees, for Trainees".🔸️FREE ENTRY!🔸️ 🗓: Wednesday, 26th June ⏰️: 10:00 - 12:00 🗣: Sophie Jenz, Hélio Cabral, Greg Pearcey, myself + invited guests! 📍Room 131+132 Register here: t.e2ma.net/click/qbvt3o/y…

Check out the latest by friend and colleague, Dr. Greg Pearcey, on his Banting Foundation Discovery Award! Greg Pearcey Memorial HKR ASSERT gazette.mun.ca/research/under…

👥Are you a student or an early career researcher interested in #Neuromuscular #Electrophysiology #HumanMovement #Kinesiology? 🚨 Join Sophie Jenz and me on the ECR Committee and contribute to ISEK leadership! #ISEK2024 ✍️Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 🔎More info 👇

Congratulations to Sophie Jenz on her ISEK best poster award! Sophie has been leading an international collaboration to determine if motoneuron discharge behaviour and underlying biophysical properties vary throughout the menstrual cycle 💪🏽 well-deserved recognition!!

🚨 Open positions for the ISEK ECR committee!! Nominate yourself to join Ricardo Mesquita & Sophie Jenz in representing the ECRs of this amazing community! Deadline July 12

My first first-author publication is out in Journal of Physiology ! Pyramidal cells in the subiculum are characterized by their distinct firing patterns. However, little is known about how inhibitory populations regulate their activity: 🧵👇 (1/5) physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Really enjoyed my time at the pre-SfN meetings! Stellar presentations by Alex and Sophie at the Motor Systems symposium, and a pleasure sharing our AIH work at the 4th Intermittent Hypoxia meeting!

Fantastic poster session by the group Society for Neuroscience (SfN) ! Sophie Jenz James (Drew) Beauchamp #AlexBenedetto

New pub from James (Drew) Beauchamp. We showed prolonged firing of motoneurons makes it hard to control force, estimates of PICs are larger at short muscle lengths, and combining the two exacerbates this prolongation of firing-induced force variability. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…