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Oriana Brunetti

BREATHE Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, Named New MBI Deputy Director

BREATHE Center Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, has been named deputy director of the McKnight Brain Institute. Mitchell joins a leadership team of MBI Director Dr. Jennifer Bizon; fellow Deputy Directors Drs. Steven DeKosky, and Jada Lewis; and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Kevin McNaught, in guiding the MBI’s 230-member neuroscience…

NeuroNines: Benevides & Adegbemigun

Thursday, June 1, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Ethan Benevides (mentor: David Fuller) & Oluwafemi Adegbemigun (mentor: Dorian Rose). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom by registering here.

CoBAD: Lane & Zholudeva

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series will feature Drs. Michael Lane, Professor at Drexel University, & Lana Zholudeva, Research Scientist at Gladstone Institutes, on Friday, June 9 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Lane’s research explores the consequences of cervical spinal cord injury, the potential for…

PHHP Recognizes Dr. David Fuller as Doctoral Mentor of the Year

BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller was named one of two PHHP Doctoral Mentors of the Year. Nominators noted that every PhD student under his guidance has published their dissertation work in high quality scientific journals, participated in multiple national or international scientific conferences, and given numerous local scientific presentations.

NeuroNines: Sutor & Johnson

Thursday, May 25, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring postdoc Tommy Sutor (mentor: Emily Fox) and doctoral student Natalie Johnson (mentor: Daniel Wesson). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom by registering here.

BREATHE Center Retreat Program

Learn more about the 2023 BREATHE Center Retreat, Blitz & Breathwork: A Day with BREATHE in our program agenda. We look forward to seeing you on May 19th at Austin Cary Learning Center!…

CoBAD: Bates

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series will feature Dr. Melissa Bates on Friday, May 26 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Bates’s work has focused on three areas with strong thematic overlap: 1) sleep-disordered breathing as a driver of blood cancer, 2) oxygen stress in the…

BREATHE at APS Summit 2023

BREATHE members and trainees were in full force at the American Physiological Society Summit in Long Beach, CA. Beyond presenting nearly 30 posters and 10 oral presentations, BREATHE helped sponsor the Control of Breathing Mixer: Hot Topics in Respiratory Control, organized the Marilyn Menker Trainee Highlights Breakfast, and rocked the…

CoBAD: Farmer

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series will feature Dr. Colleen Farmer on Friday, May 12 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Farmer’s research aims to understand the evolutionary sequence of events involved in major vertebrate transitions, especially aspects of the evolution of the cardiopulmonary system and…

Yasin Seven Joins Department of Physiological Sciences as Assistant Professor

Dr. Yasin Seven, former Mitchell Lab member and BREATHE Center trainee, has recently joined the Department of Physiological Sciences as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Dr. Seven has been developing cell-specific nanoparticle-based therapies to target respiratory centers in the brain, with the aim of improving respiratory function via neuroprotection and neuroplasticity.