The BREATHE Center will host a Special Seminar on January 10, 2025 (11:30am – 12:30pm) in the BREATHE Conference Room (MBI, L1-126). This session will feature Fuller Lab postdoc candidate, Dr. Kirstyn Grams, from the University of Utah. She will present: From CO2 to Odors: The Importance of Respiration in Chemoreception and…
Join us on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at Bonne et Belle as we celebrate 10 years of BREATHE! Enjoy an afternoon filled with delicious food, family-friendly fun, and great company. Mark your calendars—we can’t wait to celebrate with you!…
New research reveals that a type of support cell in the spinal cord plays an important role in influencing plasticity of motor neurons responsible for breathing, a key insight that could help refine ongoing studies into a potential therapy for compromised breathing and other movements. …
Join us for the next Back to BREATHE Social & Science on January 16 (5:30-7:30pm) at MBI DeWeese Auditorium. This session will feature Dr. Don Bolser, BREATHE Steering Committee member and Professor of Physiological Sciences, and Dr. Adrienn Varga, BREATHE Steering Committee member and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience. They will…
The BREATHE Center proudly co-sponsored the 2024 Alachua County Brain Bee alongside the BRAIN Center and the McKnight Brain Institute. The event took place at the McKnight Brain Institute on December 7, 2024. Gainesville area teens participated in the day’s activities and demonstrated their impressive neuroscience knowledge.
BREATHE member, Dr. Sabhya Rana, was recently appointed as one of the new fellows for the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
BREATHE Steering Committee members, Drs. Erica Dale & Alicia Vose, join the Yoga with Jake podcast to discuss their research and the importance of making science accessible and fun.
Bridging the arts, sciences, and clinical medicine, a dancer and filmmaker with a spinal cord injury shared her journey Wednesday with a crowd of more than 120 University of Florida researchers, rehabilitation therapists, neurointensivists, and students at a screening of her documentary, “Move Me.”…
BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller, was recently featured in the UF College of Public Health & Health Professions Researcher Spotlight series. D. Fuller’s lab is pioneering innovative therapies that enhance brain and spinal cord connections to activate respiratory muscles, aiming to restore independent breathing for those with spinal cord…
What’s your first thought when you think of the structures involved in breathing? For many people, the answer is the lungs. Gordon Mitchell, PhD, a PHHP professor of physical therapy and director of the UF Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center, or BREATHE, has a different answer.
