Principal speaker
Dr Luca Modenese
2022 Menzies Health Institute Queensland Program Seminar Series
Disability and Rehabilitation Program/GCORE Seminar
Presenter:
Dr Luca Modenese, Scientia Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Title: Personalised neuro-musculoskeletal modelling: from image-based models to motoneuron-driven simulations
Seminar Overview -
Musculoskeletal models are computational representations of the musculoskeletal system and neural control of movement that can be used to simulate human motion. In this talk, I will present some recent technical developments that my group has achieved for generating, in a fully automated way, accurate models of the musculoskeletal system of individuals from standard medical images. Building on that, I will present a motoneuron driven model of the neuromuscular control that we have recently developed using spike trains of motor units obtained from decomposition of high-density electromyographic recording as input. This personalised neural controller, when coupled with image-based models, represents the highest level of neuromuscular personalisation currently achievable in vivo with non-invasive techniques.
Presenter Biography -
Dr Luca Modenese graduated summa cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) and was awarded a PhD in biomechanics from Imperial College London in 2013. After that he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research (Griffith University, Australia) and INSIGNEO Institute for in silico Medicine (University of Sheffield, UK). In 2013, he was a visiting scholar at the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab at Stanford University. In 2017, Luca was awarded a prestigious 4-year Imperial College Research Fellowship in computational biomechanics and since 2022 he is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Luca has published more than 45 publications and is a strong advocate of open science: he maintains several open-source projects through his GitHub account, including the popular awesome-biomechanics public list of resources.
CONTACTS
Twitter: @modenaxe
Youtube: Luca Modenese
Github: modenaxe
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