Conference on Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, Mt Sterling, OH

2016年6月12日至17日，人类和动物运动的生物学和工程学专家将聚集在俄亥俄州斯特林山的鹿溪会议中心和洛奇，参加题为“运动的生物力学和神经控制”的会议。会议的目标是促进关于人类和动物运动的知识现状和未来研究领域的深入开放式辩论。具体会议将涵盖肌肉，骨骼，运动，到达和抓取，建模和康复。独特的地点，远离干扰，包括来自许多不同科学领域的专家，应该使这次会议不同于许多每年举行的会议，这些会议的重点是人类和/或动物运动的狭窄方面。该提案寻求资金，以公布会议专家小组的一致发现，作为科学家、工程师和联邦资助机构项目经理的路线图。这一结果将导致运动障碍患者治疗方面的更大科学进步，帮助人类运动的新技术的创造，以及模仿生物运动的机器人的设计。本会议提案要求支持期刊出版费用。来自肌肉生物学、运动能量学、骨骼生物力学、神经运动适应、运动、感觉运动控制、康复机器人和神经肌肉骨骼建模等领域的45位受邀专家将聚集在一个远离大城市的会议中心。偏远的地点，相对较小的规模（140名参与者），以及充足的讨论时间，应该为当前对运动生理学和工程学的理解提供相当多的富有成效的辩论机会。机器人专家、计算机科学家、生理学家、运动学家、临床医生和生物医学工程师将带来他们不同的观点。我们邀请了9个小组，每个小组有5位演讲者。每个小组将准备一篇综述期刊论文，发表在开放获取期刊（如《神经工程杂志》）的特刊上，以传播小组的讨论和发现。这笔奖金将用于支付特刊的版面费。

On June 12-17, 2016, experts on the biology and engineering of human and animal movement will assemble at the Deer Creek Conference Center and Lodge in Mt. Sterling, OH, for a conference entitled, "Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement". The goal of the meeting is to promote intensive open-ended debate about the current state of knowledge and areas of future research on human and animal movement. Specific sessions will cover muscle, bone, locomotion, reaching and grasping, modeling, and rehabilitation. The unique venue, isolated from distractions, and the inclusion of experts from many different scientific fields should make this conference different from many annually occurring conferences that are focused on narrower aspects of human and/or animal movement. The proposal seeks funding to publish the consensus findings of the expert panels of the meeting to serve as a roadmap for scientists, engineers, and program managers for federal funding agencies. The outcome should lead to greater scientific advances in the treatment of individuals with movement disabilities, creation of new technology for assisting human movement, and the design of robots emulating biological movement. This conference proposal requests support for journal publication charges. 45 invited experts in muscle biology, movement energetics, skeletal biomechanics, neuromotor adaptation, locomotion, sensorimotor control, rehabilitation robotics, and neuromusculoskeletal modeling will come together in a conference center isolated from a major city. The remote location, relatively small size (140 attendees), and ample discussion time in the program should provide for considerable opportunity to have productive debate on current understanding of the physiology and engineering of movement. Roboticists, computer scientists, physiologists, kinesiologists, clinicians, and biomedical engineers will bring their disparate perspectives to the meeting. There are 9 invited panels with five speakers each. Each panel will prepare a summary review journal paper for publication in a special issue of an open access journal (e.g. Journal of Neural Engineering) to disseminate the discussion and findings of the panel. The funding from this award will go towards the page charges for the special issue.