The kick-off workshop will welcome participants to the IMS-SRI with the following: Introduction to goals and philosophy of IMSI, with Co-Directors Daley and Nishikawa Flash talk introductions by IMSI faculty Overview of Mentorship pods and team-based philosophy of IMSI 

The kick-off workshop of the IMS-Summer Research Institute will demonstrate markerless motion capture. Workshop 1 will be led by Dr. Nidhi Seethapathi postdoctoral researcher at Penn, Dr. McNitt-Gray a professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at USC, Dr. Kelli Sharp an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at UCI, and Harper Stewart a…

Workshop 2 of the IMS-SRI led by Dr. Simon Sponberg, Dunn Family Associate Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. This workshop will be a live-stream demonstration of a Manduca moth in-situ preparation.

IMS-SRI Workshop 3 will demonstrate muscle physiology using isolated muscle preparations: Classic techniques for measuring muscle properties (isometric force length, isotonic force velocity, work loops), their limitations, and new techniques based on model-based real time control or dynamic strain trajectories. This workshop is led by Elizabeth Mendoza PhD student at UCI, Dr. Kiisa Nishikawa Regents'…

Workshop 4 will focus on materials-based models of muscle mechanical function. This workshop is led by Associate Professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at Yale University, Dr. Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Regents' Professor at Northern Arizona University, Dr. Kiisa Nishikawa.

Workshop 5 will focus on the neurophysiology of sensorimotor control of muscles in movement. Led by Associate Professor, ecology & evolutionary biology at UC, Irvine Dr. Monica Daley, Assistant Professor in the department of dance Dr. Kelli Sharp, Associate Professor of biokinesiology at the University of Southern California Dr. James Finley, and postdoctoral researcher at…