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
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
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Session XII – Inputs to Motoneurons
Chair: Andrew Fuglevand
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee Break
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Session XIII – Motor Impairments 2
Chair: Duane Button
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks & Future Directions