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Vote now for Caroline Bolling! 

The voting has started for the 2020 BJSM PhD Academy Awards. It is the 4th year of this award, meant for PhD theses with clear impact in both the research and applied settings. This year you can vote only once, give your vote to AMS member Caroline Bolling! Her research is entitled: “Who me? I thought you would never ask!” Applying qualitative methods in sports injury prevention research (PhD Academy Award). In her research, Caroline  explores how injury prevention happens in sports practice, and describes the perspectives of various stakeholders with regard to injury and its prevention. She studied 3 high-performance contexts, namely elite sports, professional dance and circus arts. Voting will end on April 5, 2021 at 05:59 GMT. You can vote here.

AMS Annual Meeting 2021: moving forward

'Wow. This is amazing, a fully online conference with the same kind of feel as a real conference' twittered a participant. The Online Annual Meeting was chaired by Nathalie Bravenboer and Sjoerd BruijnDirector Mario Maas welcomed everybody and thanked Frans Nollet as former AMS director, for his great work. Frans led the institute from its first beginnings in the Movement Sciences Working Group in 2016. During that time, and much to his credit, the institute has become a powerful entity in the field of movement research in the Amsterdam area and far beyondDirector Richard Jaspers drew a picture of goals of the future. The program directors informed us about the actual developments. In short, this was a very inspiring day, in which many researchers could meet up and exchange their ideas and latest developments. We hope to see you in real life next year! Read more.

The ECR AMS Committee is looking for new members!
This committee is concerned with representing the Early Career Researchers within AMS, by identifying and responding to their needs, for instance  by organizing workshops, educational and social activities. If you are interested or would like some more information, please contact Melissa Hooijmans

Awards AMS Annual Meeting

This year we had two winners of the Outstanding Paper Award. Sabrina Chettouf got the award for the paper: Are unimanual movements bilateral?  This study shows that unimanual movements involve bi-hemispheric activation patterns that resemble the bilateral neural activation typically observed for bimanual movements. The second outstanding Paper Award was won by Ton Schoenmaker, entitled: Activin-A Induces Fewer, but Larger Osteoclasts From Monocytes in Both Healthy Controls and Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Patients. This research is a well-performed trial with innovative and clinically meaningful results for a rare and complex disease.

During the AMS Annual Meeting, prizes were awarded in three different categories.The Best Poster Award in Sports was won by Tammie van Biemen, entitled: Into the eyes of the referee: A comparison of on-field visual search behaviour between elite and sub-elite football referees. In Clinical Science Victor Staartjes won also with his Poster: Magnetic resonance imaging-based synthetic computed tomography of the lumbar spine using deep learning. Finally, in Basic Science, Moritz Eggelbusch won with his research: inflammation-induced skeletal muscle wasting: emerging role of the nlrp3 inflammasome.


The (first) Societal Outreach Award was won by Eric Voorn. He took the lead in the development and implementation of ‘B-FIT’, a training guide to prescribe and evaluate individualized home-based aerobic training in slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases. B-FIT has been made freely available through a website and has proven to be very successful, along with the development of the ReVi app. The ReVi app allows direct feedback to patients during exercise, remote supervision by physical therapists and the collection of exercise data for evaluation and research and is now being used by most patients following the B-FIT exercise program.

AMS Activities

Second meeting AMS research program 'Tissue Function and Regeneration' 
The program “Tissue Function and Regeneration” will organize a second round table meeting. The Program Board cordially invites you to participate. We will continue the discussions on the themes raised in the kick-off meeting and will have a the possibility for additional major theses or research questions. The aim is to arrive at original and innovative research proposals that have high potential for grant applications. Some projects with high potential can then receive financial support from AMS with an actual application. Date: April, 8, 2021, 15:00 - 17:00. Program and registration
Workshop Research Integrity (RI)
How is your daily work affected by choices on integrity? What do you know about RI? How do you handle situations with pressure on your choices? Test your skills and share your experiences with RI-Bingo and be prepared to give a solo karaoke performance should your skills not be up to scratch! This workshop is informative AND entertaining and was given excellent reviews when it was given during the AMS research meeting. Make sure you sign on to expand on your RI skills! Speakers: dr. Jaap van Netten and dr. Gerben ter Riet. Registration.
Save the date: May 10, 2021, 15 - 17.00 hrs, kick-off meeting 'Rehabilitation and Development' 
We invite you warmly for the kick-off meeting of the AMS program 'Rehabilitation & Development'. More information will follow soon.

News

Affiliation Use  Amsterdam Movement Sciences

All Amsterdam UMC researchers are urged to use the correct affiliation when submitting scientific publications, also to be found on the AMS website:

  • ACTA: Department of ....., Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, the Netherlands;
  • Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, department(s), research institute(s), Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Location AMC
  • Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, department(s), research institute(s), Boelelaan 1117, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Location VUmc
  • VU: FGB (Human Movement Sciences) / Faculty of Sciences (Health Sciences): Department of … , Faculty of …, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, The Netherlands.

Scientific Meetings

Predicting the effect of a wearable robotic device on human movement
Maarten Afschrift will give a lecture on this subject at the Faculty of movement Sciences, VU. Locomotion results from interactions between the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system and the environment. The complex interaction between these systems makes it difficult to predict how interventions, such as rehabilitation and training, surgery, or wearable robotic devices, influence human locomotion. Model-based simulations have the potential to explore the causal relation between interventions in the neuro-musculoskeletal system and human locomotion. These simulations rely on mathematical models of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems and therefore provide a causal relation between the neuro-musculoskeletal model and simulated human locomotion. New computational approaches have enabled the use of predictive simulations with complex neuro-musculoskeletal models, but the validity of these model-based predictions remains unclear. Date: April, 6, 2021, 400 p.mZoomlink. Meeting ID: 935 9867 1024. Passcode: 620592.
Research contracts and Intellectual Property – share your knowledge with confidence 
Do you have plans for a collaboration with an external party or are you asked to share your research results? But what should you take into account in a collaboration with an external partner? Legal advisors from IXA share with you what you need to settle in a contract and whether Intellectual Property (IP) should always be included in a contract. April, 22, 2021, 9:50 - 11:30, online. More info​rmation and registration.

PhD Activities

Workshop Presentation skills for PhDs

The ability to deliver an effective and engaging presentation is an important skill for any researcher, and this workshop provides a perfect opportunity to work on your presentation skills! If you would like to deliver your content more effectively at conferences and public events, come to this inspiring workshop. You will learn about body language, voice and stage presence. You will discover how to capture the attention of your audience more by being truly audience-focused. And you can acquaint yourself with a different structure for your content that will lead to more impact with your conference talks. Dates: April 13, 2021 (13.00-17.00), May 18, 2021 (13.00-17.00), May 31, 2021 (13.00-17.00), June 11, 2021 (9.00-13.00). More information.

Calls
AMS-VUmc Investment Call
If you are looking for new equipment for your research, this call might be interesting for you. The equipment will be used for translational research and will be available to use for all interested researchers within Amsterdam Movement Sciences, based at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc. Additional financing (c.q. matching) is possible (if the available AMS budget is exceeded). The amount that can be requested is minimum €12.000 – maximum €40.216 (incl. VAT). The application deadline is May 10, 2021. More information.

The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards 2021
Do you have a research-based idea for a product, service or innovation with the potential to create impact in society? Register your idea for the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AmSIA) and have a chance to win one of three prizes of €10,000! The Award has 3 categories, inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: SocietyHealth or Environment & Climate. AmSIA is an inclusive competition open to ideas from all research disciplines and domains. Deadline: April 5, 2021. More information and registration.

Upcoming PhD Dissertations

 
  • 7/4/2021: Arjen MolAdvancing orthostatic hypotension diagnostics | online |  Livestream | 13:45;
  • 8/4/2021: Esmée BotmanUnravelling Heterotopic Ossification in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) Livestream |11:45;
  • 21/4/2021: Jo Verschueren: The interaction of fatigue and adaptability with lower extremity functional performance tests | Online | 11:45;
  • 7/5/2021: Charlotte van Gulik: Working with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis | Agnietenkapel | UvA | 10:00; 
  • 19/5/2021: Sara Daliri: Enhancing medication safety for patients during the transition from hospital to home | Agnietenkapel | UvA | 16:00; 
  • 27/5/2021: Abbas Peymani: Madelung Deformity | Agnietenkapel | UvA | 10:00.
  • Is your defense missing? Send us your details by mail ams@vu.nl.

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