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ECSS presscenter | 24.06.2009

From Left: Dr. Sylvie Chartron and Albert Gollhofer

YIA started 1996, the same year the conference started. The award was an initiative of Mars Inc. Dr Sylvie Chartron tells us the Mars inc sponsors 20 award every year and provides the generous cash prizes for the finalists.

President of the scientific board, Anton Wagenmakers, emphasize the importance of this award as a promotion for the ECSS conference among junior scientists.

There where around 280 applicants and 150 meet the criteria. The president says that it is a hard job to nominate and evaluate the young investigators. The committee is pressed on time and has to cover 95 poster presentations and 55 oral presentations before they find the winners.

To learn the criteria for the Young Investigators Award visit ECSS homepage.

Winners:

Oral Presentation:

Cheryl Waring Cheryl Waring tells us that she was very nervous in giving the lecture, she’s been preparing the speech for week, and she is not sure how to use the prize money, but might use it for next year convention in Turkey.

Poster Presentation:

Maria Willerslev-Olson tells us that she has been nervous sins she handed in the abstract in March. It is her first time and says that she still was nervous even after getting the award. She doesn’t know how to spend the prize money yet.

Finalists:

Oral Presentations:

“Changes in motor unit characteristics after eccentric elbow flexor excercise”
Harri Piitulainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finnland.

“Cardiac stem cell activation and ensuing myogenesis and angiogenesis contribute in cardiac adaptation to intensity controlled exercise training"
Cheryl Waring, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom.

“The normalization of emotional abuse in sport: an ecological grooming model”
Ashley Stirling, University of Toronto, Canada.

“Human skeletal muscle intramyofibrillar glycogen is decreased after 14 days of immobilisation in young and old men”
Joachim Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

“Corticospinal excitability during concentric and eccentric maximal voluntary contraction"
Julien Duclay, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

“Space-time coordination dynamics in basketball: investigating the interaction between the two teams"
Jerome Bourbousson, Nantes Atlantic University, France.

“Human action, tacit knowledge and embodied skills“
Kristina Bruemmer, University of Oldenburg, Germany.

“Effectiveness of intermittent training in hypoxia combined with live high/train low„

Eileen Robertson, Australian Institute of Sport, University of Canberra, Flinders University, Australia.

“The COL12A1 gene is associated with increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in females"

Michael Posthumus, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

“Risks factors for burnout among elite adolescent handball players"

Sandrine Gautheur, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France.

Poster presentations:

“A new method for TMS mapping"
Maria Willerslev-Olson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The enzymes of intramuscular triglyceride synthesis exhibit fibre type specificity"
Juliette Clark, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

“Extensibility of the human achilles tendon during isometric contraction: an in vivo MRI study"
Soichiro Iwanuma, Waseda University, Japan.

“Unsupervised home-based proprioceptive training reduces the incidence of ankle sprain recurrences: report of a RCT"
Maarten Hupperets, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

“Effects of sensorimotor training on patients with malignant lymphoma"
Fiona Streckmann, University of Freiburg, Medical Centre Freiburg, Germany.

“A 6-week stretching program alters mechanical and architectural properties of the gastrocnemius muscle-tendon unit"
Emika Kato, Waseda University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.

“Influence of vibration type, frequency, body position, and additional load on the neuromuscular activity during whole body vibration“
Ramona Ritzmann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universität Potsdam, Germany.

“Induced increase of system immanent variability through an elastic cord technique training device and a practical application"

Anita Haudum, Christian Doppler Laboratory Biomechanics in Skiing, University of Salzburg, Austria.

“The effect of heavy strength training on performance and muscle adaptations in elite nordic combined athletes"

Øystein Kojedal, Norwegen School of Sport Science, Norway.

“Exercise enhances whole-body cholesterol turnover in mice by reducing cholesterol absorption and by stimulating bile acid synthesis"

Maxi Meissner, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.