Movement classification in soccer

Suliat Yakubu was a semi-finalist in the 2022 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Suliat presented their research, "Movement Classification in Soccer.” They hope to explore the deployment of sensors to measure kinematics to analyze limb movements of soccer players to help coaches and athletes monitor how they are exposing themselves to injury. Suliat Yakubu is completing their Master in Biomedical Engineering at The University of British Columbia at the School of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Calvin Kuo.Applied Science, Faculty ofBiomedical Engineering, School ofUnreviewedGraduat

NanoMi - An Open Source Transmission Electron Microscope

NanoMi is a project towards an open source modular electron microscope. It will allow to assemble transmission electron microscope (TEM) column, scanning TEM (STEM) column or scanning electron microscope (SEM) column. The goal of the NanoMi project is to establish framework for a community development of an electron microscope. Perhaps most important aspect is the license that covers the development: CERN Open Hardware v2, weakly reciprocal for hardware components. https://cern-ohl.web.cern.ch/ and GPL v3 for software (see below

De Novo Variants Disrupting the HX Repeat Motif of ATN1 Cause a Recognizable Non-Progressive Neurocognitive Syndrome

Polyglutamine expansions in the transcriptional co-repressor Atrophin-1, encoded by ATN1, cause the neurodegenerative condition dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) via a proposed novel toxic gain of function. We present detailed phenotypic information on eight unrelated individuals who have de novo missense and insertion variants within a conserved 16-amino-acid "HX repeat" motif of ATN1. Each of the affected individuals has severe cognitive impairment and hypotonia, a recognizable facial gestalt, and variable congenital anomalies. However, they lack the progressive symptoms typical of DRPLA neurodegeneration. To distinguish this subset of affected individuals from the DRPLA diagnosis, we suggest using the term CHEDDA (congenital hypotonia, epilepsy, developmental delay, digit abnormalities) to classify the condition. CHEDDA-related variants alter the particular structural features of the HX repeat motif, suggesting that CHEDDA results from perturbation of the structural and functional integrity of the HX repeat. We found several non-homologous human genes containing similar motifs of eight to 10 HX repeat sequences, including RERE, where disruptive variants in this motif have also been linked to a separate condition that causes neurocognitive and congenital anomalies. These findings suggest that perturbation of the HX motif might explain other Mendelian human conditions