The ninth installment of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Vsevolod Polotsky, MD, PhD, on Friday, August 21st. Dr. Polotsky is a pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine physician and a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His most…
The eighth installment of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Ken O’Halloran, PhD, and David Burns, PhD, on Friday, August 14th. A professor and head of the Physiology Department at the University College Cork, Dr. O’Halloran’s research focuses…
Dr. Emily Plowman, BREATHE Clinical Director and Director of the UF Aerodigestive Research Core, was recently recognized for having one of the most read articles in Muscle in Nerve for 2018-2019. It is still one of the Top 5 most downloaded articles this month alone, despite being published in July 2018.
The seventh installment of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Thiago Moreira, PhD, and Ana Takakura, PhD, on Friday, August 7th. An associate professor in the Physiology and Biophysics Department at the University of São Paulo, Dr. Moreira’s research focuses on how…
Dr. Alison Barnard presented “Respiratory muscle changes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Results from four years of prospective observation,” and PhD Candidate Ray Spradlin presented “Necessity of muscle IGF-1 for recovery from disuse and adaptation to endurance exercise training” on Thursday, July 30.
The sixth installment of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Robert Huckstepp, PhD, on Friday, July 31. An assistant professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, Dr. Huckstepp’s research focuses on respiratory and…
Dave Fuller, Professor of Physical Therapy and BREATHE Associate Director, and Barry Byrne, Associate Chair of Pediatrics, Director of the Powell Gene Therapy Center, and BREATHE member, received a 5-year NIH R01 award to continue their work on gene therapy for …
Dr. Ada Varga presented “Pontine control of respiration: The role of the locus coeruleus,” and Dr. Michael Sunshine presented “A novel way to stimulate breathing after drug overdose” on Thursday, July 23.
The fifth installment of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Adrianne Huxtable, PhD, on Friday, July 24. An assistant professor in the Department of Human Physiology at the University of Oregon, Dr. Huxtable’s research focuses on the neural…
Rehabilitation Science faculty, Andrew Judge, PhD, professor in the Dept. of Physical Therapy, and collaborator Glenn Walter, PhD, professor in the Dept. of Physiology and Functional Genomics, received funding from the UF Opportunity Seed Fund for their study, “The Role of Trim63 in Cancer Cachexia.”
