Conference Program
| Time | Tuesday, August 25 | Location |
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| 11am | Registration opens | at BeMoBIL |
| 11am-4pm | Lab Visit – BeMoBIL showcases own research and non-commercial developments from the MoBI community Hosts: Klaus Gramann, Anna Wunderlich, Benjamin Paulisch Presenters: Carlo Martin, Peter König, Klaus Gramann: Demo of GridCell project Benedikt Ehinger, Martin Geiger: S-CCS presents the Unfold-Ecosystem John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, Nicole Burke: The Child Mind Institute’s Multimodal Brain/Body Imaging Core Sarah Blum, Stefan Debener: open-source Android apps, Senda, Recorda, and Viewa, which enable MoBI studies on smartphones by addressing the challenge of multi-sensor signal streaming and time-synchronized sensor recording Russell Chan, Jan-Willem van ’t Klooster: ExperiVan mobile research lab Wiebke Pätzold, Joanna Scanlon, Jan Vox, Moritz Brandes, Stefan Debener: flex-printed electrode arrays, the trEEGrid and VW ID.Buzz which is a van equipped with microphone arrays and mobile EEG | at BeMoBIL and IBS lab |
| 5pm-6:30pm | Keynote Lecture Nanthia Suthana | at TU main campus close to BeMoBIL |
| Time | Wednesday, August 26 | Location |
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| 8am | Registration opens | at the Venue Hotel Oderberger |
| 9:30-10:45am | Talk Session 1 – Biomechanics Chairs: Sein Jeung, Stefan Debener Miray Altinkaynak: The Walking Brain: Cortical Signals During Dynamic Audiovisual Experience in Real-World Settings Daghan Piskin: Should I „stay“ or should I „go“?: Cortical correlates of fluent versus cautious walking with an anticipated inhibition Daniel Büchel: The Influence of An Active Back-Support Exoskeleton on Auditory Cue Processing During Walking Morteza Khosrotabar: Investigating Human Cost Functions in Human-Exoskeleton Interaction: New Insights from EEG Signals Pierfillippo De Sanctis: Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Reveals Differential Frontoparietal Dynamics Underlying Exceptional Mobility in Adults 80+ | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 10:45-11:15am | Coffee Break | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 11:15am-12:15pm | Keynote Lecture John Foxe | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 12:15-12:30pm | Daily Announcements | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 12:30-2pm | Lunch | Restaurant, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2-2:30pm | Poster Blitz A | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2:30-4pm | Poster Session A | Aula, Hotel Oderberger |
| 4pm-4:15pm | Coffee Break | Aula, Hotel Oderberger |
| 4:15-5:30pm | Talk Session 2 – Symposium Beta-Band and Cognitive Control Mechanisms of Gait in Ageing and Parkinson’s Disease Chairs: Joris van der Cruijsen, Julius Welzel Julius Welzel:Brain-electrical and biomechanical signatures of gait impairment in Parkinson’s disease Tjeerd Boonstra: Beta-band dynamics in cognitive control of gait in ageing and Parkinson’s disease Mei Zhongke: Phase- and band-specific cortical dynamics of gait kinematic correlates in Parkinson’s disease Cindel Albers: Underlying Neural Mechanisms of Cortical Compensation in Parkinson’s Disease Lara Papin: Treadmill or overground? Cognitive-motor interference effects in healthy individuals and Parkinson’s Disease | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 5:30-6:30pm | Walk’n’Talk | Start at Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| Time | Thursday, August 27 | Location |
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| 9am | Doors open | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 9:15-10:30am | Talk Session 3 – Spatial Cognition Chairs: Manca Peskar, Klaus Gramann Annika Werwach: Memories in motion: Neural signatures of memory formation in naturally moving toddlers Tom Bullock: Oscillatory reconstructions of dynamic object trajectories are modulated by spatial uncertainty Clement Naveillhan: The multifaceted role of RSC theta activity in integrating bodily and environmental cues to support naturalistic navigation Chris Hilton: Navigation of non-Euclidean spaces reveals flexible re-organisation of spatial memory Anna Wunderlich: How people sample impossible environments | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 10:30-11am | Coffee Break | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 11am-12:15pm | Talk Session 4 – Clinical Studies Chairs: Helen Huang, Chris Hilton Paige Nicklas: Movin’ & Groovin’: Characterizing the Development of Cognitive-Motor Interactions in those with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder using MoBI Carina Pohle: Effects of Menstrual Pain on Postural Control and Brain Functional Connectivity: An Exploratory Pilot Study Lousin Moumdjian: Neural-behavioural coupling during walking to music and metronomes in cerebellar ataxia and healthy controls Jasmine Mirdamadi: Cortical response modulation as a potential biomarker of balance control: towards precision rehabilitation in Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease Janna Protzak: Age-related changes in the distribution of cortical activity contributing to the balance-evoked N1 during standing | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 12:15-12:30pm | Daily Announcements | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 12:30-2pm | Topic Lunch | Restaurant, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2-2:30pm | Poster Blitz B | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2:30-4pm | Poster Session B | Aula, Hotel Oderberger |
| 4pm-4:15pm | Coffee Break | Aula, Hotel Oderberger |
| 4:15-5:15pm | Talk Session 5 – Symposium fNIRS Chair: Alexander von Lühmann Tomas Codina: Multimodal DOT–EEG Mapping of Single-Finger Sensorimotor Responses David Boas/Laura Carlton: Measuring attentional states with whole head high density wearable fNIRS Pichaya Tappayuthpijarn: A Multimodal Pipeline for Integrated OPM-MEG and fNIRS: Applying tCCA and mSPoC to Task-Evoked Neurovascular Signals | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 5:15-6:00pm | Panel Discussion fNIRS and EEG Panelists: Prof. Dr. David Boas Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Director, Neurophotonics Center, Boston University Dr. Patrick Britz CEO, NIRx GmbH · NIRx LLC · Photon Migration Technologies Dr. Helen Huang Associate Professor, BRaIN Lab University of Central Florida Peter Schlecht Chief Advisor, Braingrade; Founder, stealth neurotech startup (2025–) Moderator: Dr. Alexander von Lühmann Research Group Leader, Intelligent Biomedical Sensing Lab, TU Berlin & BIFOLD · Former C-Level Executive, NIRx · SfNIRS Board | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 7pm | Social Event | PanAm Lounge |
| Time | Friday, August 28 | Location |
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| 9am | Doors open | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 9:30-10:45 | Talk Session 6 – Methods Chairs: Anna Wunderlich, Daniel Ferris Patrick Ledwidge: Comparing Methods for Motion Artifact Removal from 16-Channel Mobile EEG during Overground Running and Sidestepping Sein Jeung: EEGManySteps for reproducible and transparent MoBI Yahya Shirazi:UNISEP: A Unified Sensor Placement Framework for Reproducible Multimodal Brain-Body Imaging Joanna Scanlon: Long-term day and night EEG monitoring with flex-printed trEEGrid electrode patch and a miniaturized amplifier system Aitana Grasso-Cladera: Exploring Neural Signatures in Response to Self-Initiated Oculomotor Events in the Real World | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 10:45-11am | Daily Announcements | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 11-11:30am | Coffee Break | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 11:30-12:30pm | Meet the Vendors | next to Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 12:30-2pm | Lunch | Restaurant, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2-2:45pm | MoBI Award Winning Talk | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 2:45pm-3:15pm | Coffee Break | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 3:15-4:15pm | Keynote Lecture Britta Westner | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 4:15-5pm | Panel Discussion Between Freedom and Rigor- reproducible and naturalistic neuroimaging Panelists: Dr. Britta Westner Assistant Professor at the Donders Institute and Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands Dr. Meryem Yücel Research Associate Professor (BME), Technical Director, Neurophotonics Center, Boston University Dr. Yu-Fang Yang Postdoc at General Psychology and Neuropsachology, Free University Berlin Alexander Struck Head of IT Interdisciplinary Laboratory Humboldt University Moderator: Sein Jeung, lead of Motion-BIDS, PhD student Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, TU Berlin | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |
| 5-5:30pm | Event-Related Potential, Poster Blitz Prize, Farewell | Pool hall, Hotel Oderberger |