Present your Research at the Annual Meeting! We invite 3rd or 4th year PhD candidates or ECR scientists from each AMS research program to present an overview of their research during the Annual Meeting to be held on March 13, 2020. Each program representative will have 10 minutes for their presentation, including 3 minutes questions time from the audience. The presentation should be of a general character, so that researchers who are not closely affiliated with the project also get the main results. Do you not know in which program your research is embedded? Have a look at the new program descriptions on the AMS website and discuss it with your supervisor. Any proposed presentations will be discussed with the program directors before acceptance. Send your short abstract including title, before December 15, 2019 to ams@vu.nl
Awards AMS Annual Meeting 2020 The Outstanding Paper Award is open to MA students and AMS member PhD candidates for a publication (print or online) published in 2019. The Best Poster Award is open to MA students and AMS member PhD candidates. We welcome new research results, but you can also use a poster previously presented at another recent meeting. Download the criteria for the Best Poster Award here. For the Outstanding Paper Award here.
Looking for jury members We are looking for jury members to judge the prizes that are awarded during the AMS Annual Meeting in March 2020. We still need ECR, senior staff and clinicians from various AMS research programs for both juries to judge the submitted papers for the ‘AMS Outstanding Paper Award’ as well as the ‘Best Poster Award’. We expect the jury members to be present at the meeting. If you have any queries about the prizes, or would like to join one of the committees, please get in touch with ams@vu.nl before December 15, 2019.
Reminder: Affiliation use for Amsterdam Movement Sciences
We kindly ask all members of Amsterdam Movemet Sciences research institute and employees of the partner faculties (AMC, VUmc, FGB and Science) to use the correct affilitions when publishing or in connection with other public appearences. This will improve the awareness and name recognition in all scientific and societal endeavours. Information.
News
Vote Now: Sicco Bus Nominated for the Societal Impact Award Amsterdam UMC For the Amsterdam UMC Societal Impact Award of 2019, a total of six candidates have been nominated by the research institutes. Sicco Bus, Associate Professor and program leader Rehabilitation and Development in AMS is one of them. He completed his doctoral dissertation on the structural and functional aspects of the neuropathic diabetic foot. In this video he explains more about his research. Sicco spends most of his time initiating, coordinating and supervising research, mostly on lower-extremity biomechanics and injury prevention in diabetes and neuromuscular populations. Sicco is member of both the Prevention and Offloading working groups of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot, writing clinical guidelines. Employees of Amsterdam UMC can vote via this link. Recently the diabetic foot team also developed a patient education film about good use of orthopaedic shoes.
Newly appointed AMS PIs
We are delighted to announce that during the 2019 round of PI appointments at Amsterdam UMC, two outstanding AMS researchers have been appointed. Marike van der Schaaf has has been appointed PI at the department of Rehabilitation Medicine, location AMC. Marike is an epidemiologist and physiotherapist, and is an expert in the rapidly developing field of rehabilitation in acute care for critically ill and vulnerable patients. She defended her PhD on Functional recovery after critical illness in 2009 and has published several papers on the recovery of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) patients. Marike was in 2017 awarded an AMS grant of €120.000 for her research project entitled Exercise physiology in critically ill patients. Marike currently supervises several PhD candidates, and in addition she is a member of numerous editorial boards, study groups and patient platforms.
Marjolein van der Krogtspecializes in the research of clinical movement analysis, cerebral palsy and musculoskeletal modelling, and is a senior researcher within the department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, and head of the VUmc Clinical Movement Analysis lab. In her research Marjolein aims to integrate research and clinical care, and by doing so performs patient-oriented research projects and thereby directly improves healthcare via her research outcomes. Marjolein defended her PhD entitled Gait deviations in children Cerebral palsy: a modeling approach in 2009, and was in 2018 awarded an AMS grant of €135,000 for the project proposal Comprehensive neuromusculoskeletal modelling to predict the effect of impairments on gait in children with cerebral palsy. Marjolein has been awarded several prizes during her tenure, and is a successful co-supervisor of several PhD candidates.
Raoul Engelbert appointed professor of Child Physical Therapy Raoul Engelbert, lecturer in Physical Therapy at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), has been appointed extraordinary professor of Child Physical Therapy at the University of Amsterdam. Engelbert holds this chair from November 1. With his special professorship, Engelbert focuses on the moving function of children at Emma Children's Hospital, including chronically ill children. He also investigates how to effectively optimize care in the transition from hospital to home, including the care for premature babies and children who have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
All AMS Scientists: Register your Output for 2019!
As the end of 2019 approaches, the academic community again have to report on the activities in the past year. We ask all scientists, junior and senior, to register their output in PURE. The scientific papers should all be harvested automatically, but please go through and see if you are missing something, you can then import the missing output yourself. Please also go through your scientific papers and make sure each output is linked to the relevant AMS research program(s). Each output may be linked to several research programs if relevant, and if not, please remove the research program from the output. Activities of societal relevance still have to be registered by the individual researchers; this may be a (professional or layman) publication / guideline / award / grant / clip / media attention / dataset / meeting etc. This is also an excellent opportunity to update your personal PURE page with a recent picture as well as any additional information you might want to share, be it your Orcid id, details of your research interests, names of supervised PhD candidates, any Prizes and Awards and information of your teaching activities. View this tutorial for how to update your personal page. If you need help with registering your output, contact your department head, or alternatively get in touch with ams@vu.nl, and we will redirect you. The deadline for registration is February, 1.
Finally, as research institute we would very much appreciate if you could please also share with us your absolute highlight of 2019, send it by mail to ams@vu.nl. Again, this may be a scientific paper, or an activity relevant for society. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cellular Senescene publication in Aging Cell by Andrea Maier Cellular Senescence is one of the most prominent pillars of ageing and is likely to cause age-related diseases. With a prominent group of researchers within the International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) Andrea Maier recently described the key cellular and molecular features of senescence and also made recommendations how to measure senescence. That cellular senescence is undoubtable associated with chronological age has recently been published in Ageing Cell – most remarkable is the heterogeneity of the presence of senescent cells in different organs, which might be the reason for the difference in the pace of ageing in our human body. Read more.
Knowledge Sector Takes Major Step Forward in New Approach to Recognising and Rewarding Academics
VSNU, NFU, KNAW and ZonMw want to ensure that the recognition and rewards system is better suited to the core tasks of the knowledge institutions in the areas of education, research, impact and patient care, and that the appreciation academics receive is better aligned with society's needs. Change is urgently needed in the way universities recognize and reward their academic staff. Research achievements have long determined academics’ career paths, and this dominance is becoming increasingly at odds with reality. Education and impact are also crucial to the success of a modern knowledge institution, as is patient care for university medical centers. Therefore a position paper is being published, 'Room for everyone’s talent'. To facilitate a wider variety of possible career paths and profiles, to offer more opportunities for collaboration, across disciplinary boundaries in various financial instruments. For more information
New Version Doctorate Regulations VU
The College of Deans of the VU has decided to amend the doctorate regulations with effect from July 1, 2019. The new version is gender-neutral and the language has been modernized. It is also in line with the points of departure for the training and supervision of VU and VUmc PhD candidates adopted by the College of Deans in April 2019. For more information click here.
Training
Lecturing in English for AMS VU Members
Are you a lecturer in higher education who teaches or supervises students in English? During the course Lecturing in English you develop your level of oral proficiency in order to give clear lectures and tutorials in English. You’ll receive individual feedback and you’ll expand your vocabulary and improve your general language proficiency, enabling you to speak with greater nuance and variety. More information and application.
PhD Activities
Apply for AISS Sport Science Awards
PhD candidates, Master's and Bachelor's students can apply for the Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science Awards. Every year AISS recognises three students who, according to the jury, carried out the best applied research in the field of sports and movement. With these awards the AISS wants to emphasise the importance of applied research in sports and encourage a new generation of sports researchers. The deadline for application is March 13, 2020.
How to Protect your Invention - Patents and other Means to Safeguard Inventions Suppose you came up with a unique invention or innovation. Of course, you don't want someone else to run off with it. How do you actually protect an invention and what are the benefits of patenting? During this workshop, organized by IXA, you will learn what a patent is, how to use it and how you can benefit from a patent. You will get information on who can file for a patent, what you can do with it, what is and what is not patentable. IXA provides you with an overview of the patenting process and supports you along the way. Researchers and PhD’s are welcome. December 12, Location AMC. More information and registration.
Workshop Work-Life Balance
Achieving work-life balance is a daily challenge. Forum for Young Scientists organizes an interactive workshop for PhD candidates and Post Doctoral Researchers on Monday December 2 on the subject, given by Ellis Vyth, senior trainer at Hertz. Elements that will be discussed in this workshop are: making plans concrete, making choices in the tasks you want to perform, negotiating and learning to say 'no'. Sign up.
Time Management and Pitching your Research for VU PhD Candidates
During the course Time Management, you will learn to focus on your work goals and how to reach these goals effectively, by making the right choices and by being aware of the consequences of your choices and actions. With practical tools, you will learn how to relate differently to your work, your time and yourself. This will result in lower stress levels, a better overview and calmness. For more information and registration. In the workshop Pitching your Research you concentrate on a variety of short exercises looking at how to tell an inspiring story, how to formulate the key message the best way possible and how to achieve a powerful introduction as well as a conclusion. The focus is on putting one's vision into words and on the effective use of metaphors. More information and registration.
Scientific Integrity How to deal with integrity and ethical questions can on paper be quite straight forward, but on the work floor and between colleagues, it can be experienced as an area of in which to tread with care. AMS and Amsterdam UMC see research integrity as an important field in which all scientists, both senior and junior, should be fully aware of. All PhD candidates have to complete a course research integrity. This course Scientific Integrity is divided into two parts: an e-learning part and contact classes part. The e-learning part can be performed at any computer with internet access. It will take about 16-20 hours to complete this part. The contact teaching part will be planned in a class of ACTA PhD students, with a maximum of 20 participants. The e-learning part is in English; the contact classes will be given also in English. Special price for AMS PhD candidates: €200, quote 'AMS member' when registering to get the membership price. Approval by your supervisor is compulsory. Moreinformation.
Upcoming PhD Dissertations
5/12/2019: PhD Graduation Guido Weide (FGB): Triceps Surae Hyper-resistance; Measurements and Morphological Determinants in Children and Adolescents with Spastic Cerebral Palsy | 09:45. | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
6/12/2019: PhD Graduation Christine Rustenburg (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC) Degeneration of the lumbar spine: preclinical concepts for clinical questions | 14.00 | Agnietenkapel | UvA;
9/12/2019: PhD Graduation Bas Fransen (FGB) Improving functional outcome and outcome measures in total knee arthroplasty | 13:45 | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
11/12/2019: PhD Graduation Nauzef Mahmood (FGB) Dynamic Support for Trunk and Neck for Persons with Progressive Muscle Weakness related Disorders | 15.45| Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
18/12/2019: PhD Graduation Lotte Lintmeijer (FGB) Power in Rowing: in search of effective feedback variables Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
16/12/2019: PhD Graduation Ernst Jan Bos (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc) Cartilage tissue regeneration for facial reconstruction in burn patients, | 15:45 | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
10/01/2020: PhD GraduationNick Kluft(FGB): The Art of Selecting Adequate Movement11.45| Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
29/1/2020:PhD GraduationYara Bachour (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc) ) The etiopathogenesis of capsular contracture in breast implants| 13:45 | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
14/02/2020: PhD Graduation Rachida Rafiq (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc) Non-classical Effects of Vitamin D: Role of Vitamin D in Inflammation, Pulmonary Function and COPD| 13:45 | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus;
12/3/2020: PhD Graduation Grace LimandjajaThe Keyloid Disorder, histopathology and in vitro reconstruction (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc | 11.45| Aula | Main Building | VU Campus.
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Events Calendar
4-7/12/2019: WCFPS 2019 (1st World Congress on Falls and Postural Stability) | Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre | Malaysia;
12/12/2020: How to Protect your Invention - Patents and other Means to Safeguard Inventions | Amsterdam UMC | location AMC;
20/12/2019: Inaugural Lecture, prof.dr. F.W. Bloemers | Een juichtoon | Aula | Main Building | VU Campus | 15.45;
16/01/2010: Grant Application Course | Sciencepark Amsterdam | 09.00;
23/1/2020: Save the date: Meeting Tissue & Regeneration | 15.00 | Venue to be announced;
13/03/2020: AMS 4th Annual Research Meeting (all day event) | KIT | Amsterdam;
