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SUMMARY:IMSI Research Seminar (Lena Ting)
DESCRIPTION:IMSI Research Seminars are open to the public. Email CIMS@uci.edu for Zoom access. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Neuromechanics of balance: Understanding muscles\, proprioception\, and neural control to inspire assistive robots \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Prof Lena Ting (Emory University & Georgia Tech) \n\n\n\nDate: Fri\, Oct 9\, 2:15-3:30pm PT / 5:15-6:30pm ET \n\n\n\nAbstract: How do our brain and bodies interact to create robust movement?  Neuromechanical interactions at multiple scales shape the way we move\, particularly in gait and balance. I will discuss key neuromechanical principles and computational models of muscle properties\, muscle spindle sensory signals\, and hierarchical neural pathways from the spinal cord to the brain that enable the body to balance. Physiological and neural response to balance perturbations further reveal interactions between cognitive and motor processes in an individual-specific way. Understanding these neuromechanical interactions at multiple scales is key to understanding  movement across the continuum from motor impairment to motor skill\, as well as to develop physiologically inspired assistive robots. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the Integrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) at MovementScience.uci.edu
URL:https://cims.uci.edu/event/ting-research-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Dean’s Distinguished Lecture – Monica Daley
DESCRIPTION:CIMS & IMSI director\, Dr. Monica Daley\, is delivering the Fall 2026 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at UCI’s Dunlop School of Biological Sciences! \n\n\n\n“Mysteries of Muscle and Movement: From Molecular Motors to Lifelong Mobility” \n\n\n\n\nProf Monica Daley\, UCI Professor and Director of CIMS & IMSI\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 20\, 2026 | Talk & Q&A: 4:00–5:00 p.m. | Reception: 5:00–6:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nCrystal Cove Auditorium\, UCI Student Center\, 311 West Peltason Drive\, Irvine\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, though registration is required. Food will be provided at the reception. \n\n\n\nLearn More & Register here →
URL:https://cims.uci.edu/event/deans-distinguished-lecture/
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SUMMARY:IMSI Research Seminar - Simon Sponberg
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next IMSI Research Seminar! Seminars are open to the public — please email CIMS@uci.edu for Zoom information.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Supra-resonance\, ultra-fast muscles\, and evolutionary transitions underlying the diverse flight of insects \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Prof Simon Sponberg (Georgia Tech) \n\n\n\nDate: Fri\, Nov 6\, 2:30-4:00pm Pacific Time \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: Flapping flight has played a key role in the diversification and evolutionary success of insects. Yet they have evolved a variety of solutions with diverse wing shapes\, movements\, and underlying muscle physiology. In this talk I will discuss how the interplay between muscle physiology\, biomechanics\, and evolutionary history has shaped the diversity of insect flight\, and how seemingly distinct physiological strategies can emerge from a common dynamical framework. Most insects fly as tiny mechanical resonators. What this means is that to reduce the extreme energetic costs of flapping flight at small scales\, many insects store and return energy in their elastic exoskeletons to accelerate their wings back and forth at high speeds. I will first discuss how\, despite the energetic advantages of resonance\, most insects actually operate above their optimal resonant frequency because of muscular constraints and biomechanical tradeoffs for control. I will then explore how insects have evolved two distinct physiological strategies for powering this supra-resonant flight. Moths\, locusts\, and many other insects activate their flight muscles in synchrony with each wingstroke. In contrast\, flies\, beetles\, and many bees generate multiple wingstrokes for each pulse of neural activation. This asynchronous strategy relies on stretch activation\, a physiological property of flight muscle that allows rhythmic contractions without neural activation for every wingstroke\, enabling the exceptionally high wingbeat frequencies of many small insects. Although these two strategies have long been recognized\, our evolutionary reconstruction suggests that the four major clades of asynchronous fliers likely share a single evolutionary origin of asynchrony. Surprisingly\, this implies that groups such as moths and butterflies secondarily lost asynchronous flight. We test this prediction in the synchronously flying hawkmoth\, Manduca sexta\, and find that its flight muscles retain the stretch-activated properties characteristic of asynchronous species. We then develop a unified biophysical framework showing how transitions between synchronous and asynchronous flight can arise from changes in muscle and wing dynamics. We demonstrate these principles in a flapping-wing robot capable of reproducing both flight strategies. Finally\, using a physiological dynamic clamp that places isolated moth flight muscle into a mechanical virtual reality environment\, we show that a simple change in muscle physiology can recover asynchronous dynamics in synchronous moth muscle.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Simon Sponberg is Glen Robinson Professor in Complex Systems at Georgia Tech with appointments in the schools of Physics (75%) and Biological Sciences (25%). He earned B.A.’s with highest honors in physics and biology at Lewis & Clark College and his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from UC\, Berkeley. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Biology and Physiology & Biophysics. He has 50 journal publications\, including in Science\, Nature\, and PNAS. Sponberg was a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in the Neurosciences\, NSF CAREER awardee\, Leedy Endowed Faculty Excellence Fellow\, Hertz Fellow\, and an International Society of Neuroethology Young Investigator. He leads an Air Force MURI team examining how the compact neural architectures of flying insects achieve fast perception and rapid decision-making in complex sensory environments. He also co-leads an NSF Biological Integration Institute on Movement Sciences and recently helped launch the new Institute for Neuroscience\, Neurotechnology and Society at Georgia Tech. His research explores the compositional principles governing how physical and physiological systems interact to produce agile movement.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about the Integrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) at MovementScience.uci.edu
URL:https://cims.uci.edu/event/sponberg-research-seminar/
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