Thursday, June 1, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Ethan Benevides (mentor: David Fuller) & Oluwafemi Adegbemigun (mentor: Dorian Rose). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom by registering here.
Thursday, May 25, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring postdoc Tommy Sutor (mentor: Emily Fox) and doctoral student Natalie Johnson (mentor: Daniel Wesson). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom by registering here.
Thursday, May 18, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring BREATHE T32 trainee & doctoral student Emanuel Boutzoukas (mentor: Adam Woods) and Dr. David Fuller. Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom by registering here.
Hosted by the Department of Physical Therapy in collaboration with the BREATHE and Neuromuscular Plasticity NIH-funded T32 Training Programs, the 18th annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Symposium was held on March 23-24. The symposium gives predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees the chance to highlight their cutting-edge research through data blitz and poster…
BREATHE trainee Dr. Aline Oliveira was recently awarded a K99/R00 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to study “Neuroimmune axis contribution to the pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension.” The K99/R00 program enables a mentored postdoctoral researcher to more rapidly transition into a stable independent research position.
BREATHE T32 trainee, Branden Nguyen (mentor: Dr. Ashley Smuder), was chosen as this year’s recipient to the Allen, Holyoak, & Varnes Endowed Scholarship. This fund was initiated by three former professors of UF: Robert Allen, Owen J. Holyoak and Paul R. Varnes, to support…
BREATHE T32 postdoc, Dr. Michela Mir, recently attended the annual meeting for the Dysphagia Research Society in San Francisco, California. She shared work from her dissertation and won 1st Place Poster Award for her presentation entitled, “Cough Correlates of Unsafe Swallowing in Atypical Parkinsonism”. The poster highlighted distinct…
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…
