Day 1: Tuesday July 8, 2025

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM | Registration, Morning Networking, Coffee & Light Breakfast, Poster Setup

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Introductory Session – Perspectives on Motoneuron Techniques and Physiology Throughout the Years

Speakers: CJ Heckman & Roger Enoka

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Rapid fire talks

Chair: Sophie Jenz

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break & posters

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Session I – ALS 1

Chair: TBD

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch break & hikes nearby

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Session II – Movement & Plasticity

Chair: Kevin Power

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Coffee Break & posters

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Session III – Cellular Mechanisms of Motoneuron Firing

Chair: Monica Gorassini

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Poster Social

Day 2: Wednesday July 9, 2025

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Morning Networking, Coffee & light breakfast

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session IV – Brainstem Motor Control in Health and Disease

Chair: Ralph Fregosi

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break & posters

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Session V – Computational Tools for Motor Unit Identification and Analysis, and Their Translation in Motor Diseases

Chair: Francesco Negro 

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Light Lunch & posters

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Session VI – Acute Intermittent Hypoxia and Other Therapeutics

Chair: Simon Gandevia

(Afternoon free for networking, sightseeing, or optional activities)

3:30-7:00 PM | OPTIONAL (fee required): Gatherall’s puffin & whale watching boat tour

Day 3: Thursday, July 10

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Morning Networking, Coffee & light breakfast

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Session VII – Computational Approaches to Study Motoneurons

Chair: Kelvin Jones

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break & posters

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Session VIII – Motor Impairments 1

Chair: TBD

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch Break & posters

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Session IX – ALS 2

Chair: Rob Brownstone

3:00 PM – 5:30 PM | ALS roundtable

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Happy Hour @ the Wharf

7:00 PM – Midnight | Newfoundland Kitchen Party @ Quidi Vidi Brewery

Day 4: Friday, July 11

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Morning Networking, Coffee & light breakfast

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Session X – Neuromuscular Junctions in Health and Disease/Injury

Chair: Kathy Quinlan

10:30 AM – 11:00 PM | Coffee Break & posters

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Session XI – Neural Constraints That Govern Motor Unit Activity in Humans

Chair: Alessandro Del Vecchio & Dario Farina

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch Break & posters 

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Session XII – Inputs to Motoneurons

Chair: Andrew Fuglevand

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Coffee Break & posters

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM | Session XIII – Motor Impairments 2

Chair: Duane Button

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks & Future Directions