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.
Dear Colleagues: I think we can all agree that this past year has made us thankful for plasticity, one of the very properties studied in our Center that confers benefits beyond resilience—it confers antifragility. In the face of major challenges, the Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE) community has…
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.”…
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…
This round of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series drew to a close on Friday, September 10th at 3:00 pm ET. The final session featured Natasha Kumar, PhD & Simon McMullan, PhD. Dr. Kumar’s lab investigates cellular and physiological mechanisms used by autonomic systems…
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…
The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Tammie Bishop, PhD & Emma Hodson, PhD on Friday, August 27th at 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Bishop’s research is focused on understanding the role of hypoxia in cancer. She is specifically interested in defining the…
