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.
BREATHE Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, was recently featured on an episode of Unite 2 Fight Paralysis’s Curecast. In this episode, he discusses the role of intermittent hypoxia and its effect on neuroplasticity and recovery of respiratory and motor function. This will serve as a primer to his upcoming talk at their…
Thursday, June 13, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted NeuroNines featuring BREATHE T32 postdoc Dr. Alex Marciante (mentor: Gordon Mitchell) and postdoc, Dr. Jeremy Ducharme (mentor: Andrew Judge).
Thursday, May 23, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted the first NeuroNines session of the season and featured BREATHE postdoc Dr. Alec Butenas (mentor: Gordon Mitchell) & PhD student Martin Schonk (mentor: Andrew Judge).
BREATHE members and trainees were in full force at the American Physiological Society Summit in Long Beach, CA. Beyond presenting 20 posters and 6 oral presentations, BREATHE helped sponsor the Control of Breathing Mixer: Hot Topics in Respiratory Control and organized the Marilyn Menker Trainee Highlights Breakfast, which was led…
BREATHE alumnus Dr. Joseph Welch, an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK, was award the 2023 Inaugural Review Prize from Experimental Physiology. This prize is awarded to an early career researcher within the first 3 years of their first full faculty appointment. Applicants submit a…
Hosted by the Department of Physical Therapy in collaboration with the BREATHE and Neuromuscular Plasticity NIH-funded T32 Training Programs, the 19th annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Symposium was held on March 21-22. The symposium gives predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees the chance to highlight their cutting-edge research through data blitz and poster…
The McKnight Brain Institute marked its 25th anniversary with a full-day symposium on February 2, 2024. The event included a brief presentation from Director, Dr. Jen Bizon, about the institute’s history; a keynote lecture from Dr. Adam Gazzaley from the University of California, San Francisco; and a panel of rising…
Congratulations to BREATHE trainees, Kayla Burrowes (mentor: Gordon Mitchell) and Yuhan Mou (mentor: Karen Hegland) for being two of the recipients for this year’s RSD Program Fall Travel Awards!…
On Friday, September 29, the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville hosted the first Social & Science event on the Jacksonville campus. This event featured Dr. David Berlowitz from the University of Melbourne and was preceded by a day of hands-on demonstrations in intermittent hypoxia, volitional and…
