BREATHE T32 trainee, Dr. Cara Donohue, was awarded the prestigious Sumiko Okada International Fellowship from the Dysphagia Research Society for her work was “Comparison of Validated Outcomes of Swallowing Efficiency: Perceptual Ordinal DIGEST Versus Quantitative Pixel-Based ASPEKT Ratings of Pharyngeal Residue.” This…
Thursday, May 19, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD students Sebastian Barrutia (mentor: Daniel Ferris) and Cora Hart (mentor: Lee Sweeney). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.
Thursday, May 12, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD students Tinuade Olarewaju (mentor: Emily Fox) and Alessandra Norris (mentor: Daniel Kopinke). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007).
Hosted by the Department of Physical Therapy in collaboration with the BREATHE and Neuromuscular Plasticity NIH-funded T32 Training Programs, the 17th annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Symposium returned on March 17-18 as an in-person event for the first time in two years. The symposium gives predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees the chance…
BREATHE trainee Lucas Budd has been selected for the APS 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). This award allows students to participate in hands-on research in the laboratory of an established researcher and APS member for 10 weeks. He will be working on the…
Postdoctoral researcher Cara Donohue, Ph.D., has received a two-year $137,604 grant from the American Heart Association to test an intervention designed to strengthen breathing muscles and improve post-surgical outcomes in patients who have had heart surgery.
The BREATHE Training Program is seeking postdoctoral fellows with a passion for translational respiratory research. Find out more about our training program and apply here.
Congratulations to BME postdoc Eleana Manousiouthakis, PhD, on being awarded BREATHE postdoctoral fellowship funded through the McKnight Brain Institute. The BREATHE Training Program combines basic science and translational research to educate predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees. She is one of nine trainees currently in the program.
A new rat-model study by Erica Dale, PhD and Ian Malone, BS found that applying a form of electrical stimulation below a spinal-cord injury and in sync with natural breathing rhythm elicited respiratory neuroplasticity, or ability of neurons and neural networks to change and adapt.
BREATHE T32 trainees had the opportunity to meet for lunch with Dr. Eileen Hasser, a cardiovascular physiology professor from University of Missouri. Dr. Hasser visited the University of Florida to present her talk, “Forebrain – hindbrain connections and the response to hypoxia?”, in the Department of Physiological Sciences Seminar Series.
