Dr. Gordon Mitchell and postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Alex Marciante recently attended the XVII Symposium on Sleep and Breathing in Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Mitchell was invited as a plenary speaker and presented “In the Translational Flywheel: Therapeutic Acute Intermittent Hypoxia and Spinal Cord Injury“. Dr. Marciante also…
BREATHE T32 alumnus, Dr. Adrienn Varga has joined the Department of Neuroscience as their newest Assistant Professor. Dr. Varga’s research focuses on determining the cellular, circuit, and network-level mechanisms whereby respiratory control neurons in the brainstem interact with central circuits to shape each breath. Current…
BREATHE members, Drs. Emily Plowman, James Wymer, and BREATHE T32 alumnus, Dr. Lauren Tabor-Gray were recently published in Neurology. Their article “Respiratory Strength Training in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Multicenter, Sham-Controlled Trial” evaluates the short-term physiologic and one-year functional impact of a 12-week inspiratory and expiratory respiratory strength…
Dr. Sabhya Rana recently won the Postdoctoral Poster Prize at the 13th Annual Conference of the North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. She presented her work on the use of Ampakines to restore breathing in a rodent model of spinal cord injury. Dr. Rana’s work…
BREATHE will host the Spring/Summer 2023 CoBAD series twice monthly on Fridays at 3 pm ET via Zoom from March 31 until August 4. Register here.
Spend a day with BREATHE at Austin Cary! This year’s BREATHE Center Retreat will be held on May 19th (9am-5pm) at the Austin Cary Forest (10625 NE Waldo Rd). The event will include workshops, presentations, and a keynote by Dr. Jack Feldman, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA. All BREATHE…
Friend of the center and Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences at UW-Madison, Dr. Jerry Dempsey, will be giving a special seminar on January 27, 2023 from 11:30am-1pm. Join us in MBI DeWeese Auditorium for his presentation: “Rethinking O2, CO2 and Breathing in Wakefulness and Sleep.”…
Join us on Tuesday, January 24th from 5-7pm atthe Sidecar at V Pizza (115 SE 1st St, 32601)! This special session will feature Gator NeuroScholars candidate, Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Bau from the University of Melbourne. He will present: “Neuroanatomy and neuropathophysiology of volitional control of breathing.” Come socialize with us and…
As the assistant director of UF’s Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE) Center as well as UF’s Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center, Kate Casey-Sawicki‘s duties are wide-ranging, including grant writing, marketing and communications, management of training grants, web design, event planning and general project management.
In a recent study published in the March issue of Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, Dr. David Fuller, Dr. Michelle Singer (a former BREATHE trainee and Fuller Lab member now completing her postdoc at Johns Hopkins), and their colleagues have demonstrated for the first time that light…
