Join us for our upcoming Social and Science on Wednesday, November 15th from 5:30-7:30pm in the MBI DeWeese Auditorium! This session will feature Dr. Emma Schachner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences. She will present: “More Interesting than Mammals: Functional Diversity in the Lungs of Birds and…
The time of day that an experimental oxygen therapy is given highly influences its efficacy in spurring a form of plasticity in the neural system controlling breathing, according to new rat-model research by University of Florida neuroscientists.
The University of Florida Foundation has awarded BREATHE Center Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, one of two UF Foundation Term Professorships for 2023-24. The three-year professorship, which comes with a $25,000 award, is presented in support of the university’s preeminence goals to further advance faculty research efforts.
BREATHE T32 trainee, Alyssa Mickle, received the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience for her abstract titled “Distribution of cervical spinal c-Fos expression after epidural stimulation in rats with cervical spinal cord injury.” This award will help fund her travel to the Society for Neuroscience’s…
Join us on for our upcoming Social & Science on Thursday, October 12 from 5:30-7:30pm at Cypress & Grove Brewing (1001 NW 4th St, Gainesville, FL 32601)! This session will feature Dr. Mehdi Ahmadian, incoming Gator NeuroScholar postdoc in the Mitchell Lab. He will present: Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A Breath…
Join us on for our upcoming Social and Science on Thursday, October 12th from 5:30-7:30pm at Cypress and Grove Brewing (1001 NW 4th St, Gainesville, FL 32601)! This session will feature Dr. Mehdi Ahmadian, incoming Gator NeuroScholar postdoc in the Mitchell Lab. He will present: "Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A…
The BREATHE Center was pleased to be part of the 6th International CCHS Science Conference held at the Disney World Beach Club resort in Orlando, Florida from September 6-9, 2023. The aim of this meeting was to target collaborations among researchers and clinicians to advance understanding…
Join the BREATHE Center and the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville for our upcoming Social & Science on Friday, September 29 (4:30-7pm). This special session will be hosted in the Swisher Conference Room at UF Health-Jacksonville (580 West 8th Street, Tower I, 10th floor, Jacksonville, FL 32209)! Dr. David Berlowitz, Professor…
The BREATHE Center will host Dr. Brian Dlouhy, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, on September 15 (12-1pm) in Communicore Building (C1-009). In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Dlouhy leads a human brain research lab that focuses on forebrain control of breathing and how the forebrain responds and…
As part of a new effort, the Fixel Institute is raising money and will be providing over $200,000 to fund 6 outstanding proposals in four different departments and three different colleges. This pilot grant program evaluated the highest ranking grant submissions with a selected…
