The Rehabilitation Science program awarded six travel awards to students to presenting their data at national meetings. One of them is Brendan Doyle in Dr. David Fuller’s laboratory. Congratulations, Brendan! Brendan will present “Comparison of treatment efficacy in the hypoglossal motor systems of AAV-DES-coGAA and novel vector AAV-DES-IGFIIcoGAA in Gaa…
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Rehabilitation Science PhD students,Tommy Sutor, Kelly Hawkins, and Michael Sunshine, presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting. The SfN is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. More than 30,300 attendees from 80 countries convened in San Diego to…
The University of Florida Black Graduate Student Organization is pleased to announce its 1st Annual Diversity Graduate Research Symposium on Wednesday, March 22nd 2017, in the Reitz Union. The goal of this symposium is to showcase the outstanding quality and diversity of graduate-level research at the University of Florida. Students will receive monetary awards and…
So proud of HHP’s Dr. Scotty Powers for being named a University of FloridaTeacher/Scholar of the Year by President Fuchs! This is UF’s highest faculty honor and we think there is no one more deserving! …
Congratulations, Don! Dr. Bolser’s RO1 grant explores cough rhythmogenesis and uses cough suppressant drugs and hypocapnea as tools to interrogate the system. The project examines how a population of tonically active expiratory neurons controls other neurons in the dorsal medulla that are critical for the cough rhythm.
SPARC Grant to UF investigators in the Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation A new grant has been awarded to a multidisciplinary team of investigators from the Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation. This initiative, led by Don Bolser in the College of Veterinary Medicine, provides more than $7.5…
Dr. Kristi Streeter, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Fuller’s lab, has been selected to receive the Central Nervous System Research Recognition Award based on an abstract submitted to the Experimental Biology Meeting 2017 in Chicago, IL. In addition, the award winners are invited to give a presentation at the annual Joseph…
SLHS faculty and CRRR members Ianessa Humbert (left), Emily Plowman (center), and Karen Hegland (right) were recently featured on the ‘Expert Care’ portion of the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) website for their podcast on Swallowing Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease. The three SLHS faculty members were invited by the NPF…
