Control of Breathing & Airway Defense

2022
- Gordon Mitchell, PhD & Alex Marciante, PhD: “Respiratory motor plasticity following acute intermittent hypoxia: the yin (serotonin) and the yang (adenosine),” July 8, 2022
- Joseph Santin, PhD: “How frogs breathe again after a monthslong “apnea” (and insights into neuroplasticity),” May 20, 2022
- Melissa Blessing, DO & Russell Ray, PhD: “From the clinic to the bench and back; building a translational SIDS/SUID/SUDC program,” Mar 25, 2022
2021
- Natasha Kumar, PhD & Simon McMullan, PhD: “Easy as ABC: neural circuits that coordinate airway and circulation control with breathing,” Sep 10, 2021
- Tammie Bishop, PhD & Emma Hodson, PhD: “HIF-2 and the carotid body,” Aug 27, 2021
- Jan-Marino Ramirez, PhD: “Deciphering the dynamic assembly of a breath,” June 18, 2021
- Kevin Yackle, MD, PhD: “Breathing in distinct states: opioid overdose and vocalization,” May 21, 2021
- Rebecca German, PhD & François Gould, PhD: “Breathing matters for sucking and swallowing,” Mar 12, 2021
2020
- Gordon Mitchell, PhD: “The Future of CoBAD: A Zoom Town Hall,” Oct 23, 2020
- Ken O’Halloran, PhD, & David Burns, PhD: “Control of breathing in neuromuscular disease: Lessons from the mdx mouse model of muscular dystrophy,” Aug 14, 2020
- Thiago Moreira, PhD, & Ana Takakura, PhD: “Excitatory and inhibitory modulation of parafacial respiratory group in the control of active expiration,” Aug 7, 2020
- Teresa Pitts, PhD: “Airway protection and spinal cord injury: Myths, mechanisms, and management,” Jul 17, 2020
- Erica Levitt, PhD: “Pontine mechanisms of opioid-induced respiratory depression,” Jul 10, 2020
- Jack Feldman, PhD, Kaiwen Kam, PhD, Christopher Del Negro, PhD, & Sufyan Ashhad, PhD: “A deep dive into rhythmogenesis: Hold your breath!” Jun 19, 2020
Acquired Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Retreat
Co-hosted by the BREATHE & BRAIN Centers, the Acquired Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Retreat aimed to bring the SCI &TBI communities at UF together for a half-day of presentations and discussion. If you missed out on watching this retreat live, you can view the recording here: https://bit.ly/3AD9szz.
Social & Science

- Paul Davenport, PhD, & Jorge Lascano, MD, UF: “Shortness of breath, hypoxemia, and COVID-19,” May 8, 2020
- Thomas Clanton, PhD, & Russell Hepple, PhD, UF “Potential involvement of the neuronal and muscle systems in the response to and recovery from COVID-19 infection,” May 1, 2020
- Atul Malhotra, MD, & Amy Bellinghausen, MD, UC San Diego: “Clinical observations in COVID from a respiratory physiologist” (PDF), Apr 24, 2020
Member Lectures
- Neuroscience Seminar Series – Dr. Gordon Mitchell: “Intermittent hypoxia and spinal cord plasticity: breathing and walking after spinal cord injury.”
Breathing & Airway Defense

- Paul Davenport, PhD, UF: “Respiratory sensation,” Apr 14, 2016
- Don McCrimmon, PhD, Northwestern University: “Brainstem respiratory circuits: A transducer for metabolic signals? a.k.a. What’s Leptin got to do with it?” Apr 14, 2016
- Eugene Nattie, MD, Dartmouth University.: “Central Chemoreception,” Mar 24, 2016
- Jerome Dempsey, PhD, Univ of Wisconsin: “Feed-forward control: the exercise ventilatory response,” Feb. 11, 2016
- Frank Powell, PhD, UC San Diego: “Peripheral and central mechanisms of ventilatory acclimatization to chronic hypoxia,” Jan 28, 2016
BREATHE in the News

- CBS 4 News: Two UK doctors riding a tandem bike around the world for charity stop in Gainesville, Mar 5, 2019
- Gordon Mitchell, PhD, UF, & Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, Brooks Rehab: “When less oxygen means more healing,” Nov 29, 2018
- Gordon Mitchell, PhD, UF: “Intermittent Hypoxia Consortium Announcement,” Feb 6, 2018