The Motor Control Community
Ben-Gurion University has a strong motor control community with over 10 researchers in the field, including representatives from all four of the major faculties at BGU. The community has been increasingly organized since 2013. It meets bi-weekly for a journal club on topics of both clinical and scientific relevance. It organizes the annual motor control workshop. It is currently organizing a jointly taught graduate laboratory in Methods in Motor Control Research.
Karniel Motor Control Workshop
The Karniel Motor Control Workshop (KCMCW) was first founded in 2005 and has been an annual event at Ben-Gurion University since then. Prof. Opher Donchin has organized the workshop, first in collaboration with the Prof. Amir Karniel, and, since his passing in 2013, with Dr. Ilana Nisky and Dr. Lior Shmueloff.
Scholars interested in speaking at, presenting a poster at, or simply attending the workshop are encouraged to see its home page at the following link: www.bgu.ac.il/cmcw
Scholars interested in speaking at, presenting a poster at, or simply attending the workshop are encouraged to see its home page at the following link: www.bgu.ac.il/cmcw
Amir Karniel
Prof. Amir Karniel was a friend of the lab and a productive collaborator. He originally recruited Prof. Donchin to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University and the two labs worked closely together. His passing was mourned by friends and colleagues the world over. Since his passing, the motor control community at Ben-Gurion University, in collaboration with the administration, has worked to preserve his memory, both by renaming the annual motor control conference at BGU in his name, and by dedicating research space in his memory. HomePage