Title: Age-Related Decline in Postural Stability: Investigating the Influence of Proprioception 

Speaker: Kenzie MacKinnon, PhD Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University

Date: Tuesday, February, 10th, 2026

Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm  

Location: Tupper 3H-1 [IN-PERSON meeting]

Description: In the aging population, fall related injuries costs the Canadian health millions of dollars annually. This is due to an increased locomotor instability with age. One of the contributing factors to this age-related instability is a decline in proprioceptive sensation in the legs. My project is exploring if this phenomena is apparent in the aging mouse. I am looking at how stability changes when proprioceptive information is acutely ablated from reaching the spinal cord at multiple ages and how that is reflected in kinematic derived measures for stability.