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These publications highlight the diverse, global community of researchers using Myomatrix arrays to capture high-quality EMG data and shed new light on how the nervous system drives motor behavior.
W Ding, AP de Almeida, W Wang, C Qu, R Klein. 2026. Central amygdala Isl1 neurons control biting by integrating sensory and motivational signals. bioRxiv 2026.02.03.703447. 
doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.03.703447
 
MG Özyurt, F Nascimento, A Pascual-Valdunciel, K Dhillon, V Bansal, RM Brownstone, M Beato. 2026. In vivo motor unit decoding and in vitro cellular characterisation of spinal circuits for urination in adult mice. bioRxiv 2026.03.13.711618.
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.711618
 
KN Quinn, S Lang, L Qin, AA Orsini, K Griffith, R Suresh, F Kang, PL Perkins, N Joshi, AL Lowe, S Tuffaha, NV Thakor. 2026. Reinnervation of Muscle Targets Enhances the Separability of Motor Unit Signals Following Peripheral Nerve Transfers. bioRxiv 01.30.700058.
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.30.700058. 
 
S O’Connell, JA Michaels, R Wang, S Mamidipaka, M Venkatesh, N Aresh, M Pachitariu, JA Pruszynski, SJ Sober, C Pandarinath. 2026. High performance sorting of motor unit action potentials with EMUsort. bioRxiv 2026.01.06.697952.
 
WP Olson, VB Chokshi, JJ Kim, NJ Cowan, DH O’Connor. 2025. Muscle spindles provide flexible sensory feedback for movement sequences. Cell Reports, Volume 44, Issue 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116452
 
C Lenschow, ARP Mendes, L Ferreira, B Lacoste, H Marques, N Gutierrez-Castellanos, C Quilgars, SS Bertrand, SQ Lima. 2025. A galanin-positive population of lumbar spinal cord neurons modulates sexual arousal and copulatory behavior in male mice Nat Commun. Sept. 23;16(1):8282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63877-2 
 
JI Gilmer, S Coltman, GC Velasco, JR Hutchinson, D Huber, AL Person, M Al Borno. 2025. A novel biomechanical model of the mouse forelimb predicts muscle activity in optimal control simulations of reaching movements. Journal of Neurophysiology 133:4, 1266-1278 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00499.2024
 
K Thomas, R Gibbs, H Marques, MR Carey, SJ Sober. 2024. Motor unit mechanisms of speed control inmouse locomotion. BioRxiv 2024.12.29.628022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.29.628022
 
L Qin, S Wang, KN Quinn, P Perkins, S Tuffaha, NV Thakor. 2024. Separation of fascicles for motor unit separability in reinnervated muscles for neuroprosthesis application. 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782049
 
JM Barrett, ME Martin, M Gao, RE Druzinsky, A Miri, GMG Shepherd. 2024. Hand–Jaw Coordination as Mice Handle Food Is Organized around Intrinsic Structure–Function Relationships. J Neurosci 16 Oct., 44 (42) e0856242024; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0856-24.2024
 

PM Anschutz, M Zia, J Lu, MJ Williams, AL Jacob, SJ Sober, MS Bakir. 2024. Flexible EMG arrays with integrated electronics for scalable electrode density.bioRxiv 2024.07.02.601782. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.02.601782

EA Kirk, KT Hope, SJ Sober, BA Sauerbrei. 2024. An output-null signature of inertial load in motor cortex. Nat. Comms. 15, 7309. DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51750-7

J Lu, M Zia, DA Baig, G Yan, JJ Kim, K Nagapudi, P Anschutz, S Oh, DH O'Connor, SJ Sober, MS Bakir. 2024. Opto-Myomatrix: μLED integrated microelectrode arrays for optogenetic activation and electrical recording in muscle tissue. BioRxiv preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.01.601601

JJ Kim, IS Wyche, W Olson, J Lu, MS Bakir, SJ Sober, DH O'Connor. 2024. Myo-optogenetics: optogenetic stimulation and electrical recording in skeletal muscles. bioRxiv 2024.06.21.600113; doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.21.600113

B Chung, M Zia, KA Thomas, JA Michaels, A Jacob, A Pack, MJ Williams, K Nagapudi, LH Teng, E Arrambide, L Ouellette, N Oey, R Gibbs, P Anschutz, J Lu, Y Wu, M Kashefi, T Oya, R Kersten, AC Mosberger, S O'Connell, R Wang, H Marques, AR Mendes, C Lenschow, G Kondakath, JJ Kim, W Olson, KN Quinn, P Perkins, G Gatto, A Thanawalla, S Coltman, T Kim, T Smith, B Binder-Markey, M Zaback, CK Thompson, S Giszter, A Person, M Goulding, E Azim, N Thakor, D O'Connor, B Trimmer, SQ Lima, MR Carey, C Pandarinath, RM Costa, JA Pruszynski, M Bakir, SJ Sober. 2023. Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording. ELife Dec 19:12:RP88551 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.88551.

  • Comment on Chung et al. by EA Kirk, BA Sauerbrei. 2024. Electromyography: Accessing populations of motor units. ELife 2024;Jan 4:13:e94764. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.94764

J Lu, M Zia, MJ Williams, AL Jacobs, B Chung, SJ Sober, MS Bakir. 2022. High-performance flexible microelectrode array with PEDOT:PSS coated 3D microcones for electromyographic recording. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. Jul; 2022: 5111–5114. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871052

M Zia, B Chung, SJ Sober, MS Bakir. 2020. Flexible multielectrode arrays with 2D and 3D contacts for in vivo electromyography recording. IEEE Trans. Comp. Packag. Manufac. Tech. 10(2): 197-202. DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2019.2963556

M Zia, B Chung, SJ Sober, MS Bakir. 2018. Fabrication and characterization of 3D multielectrode array on flexible substrate for in vivo EMG recording from expiratory muscle of songbird. IEEE Int’l Electron Dev. Meeting. pp. 29.4.1-4. DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2018.8614503.

K Srivastava, CM Holmes, M Vellema, A Pack, C Elemans, I Nemenman, SJ Sober. 2017. Motor control by precisely timed spike patterns. PNAS. 114(5): 1171-1176. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611734114