About the Workshops
A fundamental goal of the Center for Integrative Movement Sciences is to build a sustained community & facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration in movement sciences.
These workshops were presented during our Summer Research Institute program funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Movement Institute. Trainees worked on research projects in near-peer mentoring teams, supervised by collaborative teams of experts from UCI and across the country. These workshops were presented along with the trainee to provide background information and share standards with all participants.
Organisms are complex systems of interconnected elements that must achieve coordinated function and environment responses across spatial and temporal scales. Understanding the physical interactions between organisms and their environment is an essential link in integrating biology across scales. Cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration are required to make effective use of these tools.
This program, structured as a series of hybrid workshops followed by a hybrid capstone symposium, aims to bring together interdisciplinary scientists working across a range of organisms to discuss recent innovations, challenges, and community needs for transformative advances in organismal biomechanics.
Presenters
Team-Based Science
Each workshop is presented by a leader of a project that is enrolled in the Summer Research Institute. A key focus is integrating perspectives to enable an understanding of how organisms robustly sense, respond to their environment, and effectively navigate interactions with their environment and other organisms through a variety of different scales.
Interdisciplinary Connections
A disconnect often exists between the use of models in the physical sciences and the effective translation and use of these models in biology. This workshop series aims to encourage effective and inclusive communication about the transformative potential of current research across several fields and scales of movement sciences.
Workshop Structure
Each week a presenter will present a virtual workshop about their topic of research. Each presentation involves, but is not limited to 1) introduction of the topic, 2) current research into the topic, and 3) a participation section where problems can be worked through together to better understand the topic and research itself. Workshops will be recorded and published as an openly available resource to allow asynchronous participation.
End of Research Institute Symposium
IMSI Summer Research Institute will culminate in a hybrid capstone symposium. A key focus will be on how we can work together to improve education and training interdisciplinary, increasing accessibility to students who are interesting in muscle physiology and movement sciences.