Join us in welcoming Maria Nikodemova, MS, PhD to the BREATHE Center team! Formerly an Associate Scientist in Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Nikodemova is joining the Department of Physical Therapy and the Mitchell Lab here at UF. Her research has focused on microglial…
Nothing says autumn like an outdoor lunch! Program Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, and Clinical Coordinator, Dr. Emily Plowman joined our T32 and match-funded BREATHE trainees at 4th Avenue Food Park to talk science and celebrate their hard work.
Sabhya Rana, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the department of physical therapy, is the latest investigator to be featured in MBI Rising Stars, a video series highlighting up-and-coming neuroscience researchers at the University of Florida.
Gordon Mitchell received the Dean’s Citation Paper Award for the article “Circadian clock genes and respiratory neuroplasticity genes oscillate in the phrenic motor system,” published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
As part of the Department of Neuroscience and McKnight Brain Institute Joint Seminar Series, Dr. Gordon Mitchell presented “Intermittent hypoxia and spinal cord plasticity: breathing and walking after spinal cord injury.”…
Dr. Lauren Tabor-Gray and Dr. Alicia Vose BREATHE T32 alumni Alicia Vose, PhD and Lauren Tabor-Gray, PhD presented their research at the 2021 World Dysphagia Summit held in Nagoya, Japan this past weekend. Dr. Vose and Dr. Tabor-Gray were the 2020…
Gerard Robinson, a former BREATHE T32 Training Program trainee, recently graduated with his PhD in Exercise Physiology. He is currently a postdoc in Clanton Lab, where his research explores the role of skeletal muscle in the innate response to infection,…
Dr. Cara Donohue was awarded the ASHA Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award, which aims to support students and postdocs in the field of communication science and disorders by providing them with research career development opportunities. This award will allow Dr. Donohue…
BREATHE alumnus, Dr. Adrienn Varga received a K99 award for her project “Role of an arousal circuit in respiration and opioid-induced respiratory depression” from NHLBI.
Robert Lamprecht, a visiting undergraduate student from Wofford College, participated in this year’s Summer Neuroscience Internship Program sponsored by the McKnight Brain Institute, Neuroscience Department, Biomedical Sciences Grad program, and the Center for Aging and Memory. Robert spent an intense 10 weeks in center…
