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Intermittent Hypoxia

Alex Marciante Wins Junior Investigator Award at XVII Symposium on Sleep and Breathing

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 received the opportunity to…

CoBAD: Mitchell & Marciante

For the last session of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Gordon Mitchell, PhD  & Alex Marciante, PhD on Friday, July 8th at 3:00 pm ET. Their seminar is entitled: “Respiratory motor plasticity following acute intermittent hypoxia: the yin (serotonin) and the…

BREATHE Members Lead Special Issue of Experimental Neurology

Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D., served as an editor for a special issue of the journal Experimental Neurology. The issue is focused on intermittent hypoxia, a potential treatment for spinal cord injury and multiple neurological disorders, and includes several articles authored or co-authored by UF faculty members and trainees from…

BREATHE Hosts Therapeutic Intermittent Hypoxia Virtual Workshop

The BREATHE Center will host the Therapeutic Intermittent Hypoxia Virtual Workshop on January 7th & 14th, 2022 (3-7pm EST). The agenda can be viewed by clicking the button below. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please email us at breathe-training@phhp.ufl.edu for the registration link.

Neuroscience Seminar Series – Dr. Gordon Mitchell

As part of the Department of Neuroscience and McKnight Brain Institute Joint Seminar Series, Dr. Gordon Mitchell presented “Intermittent hypoxia and spinal cord plasticity: breathing and walking after spinal cord injury.”…

CoBAD: Baker

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Tracy Baker, PhD on Friday, June 4th at 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Baker’s research focuses on homeostatic synaptic plasticity of respiratory motor output and recovery of respiratory motor output following spinal injury. Her seminar was…

CoBAD: Gozal

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured David Gozal, MD, MBA, PhD (Hon) on Friday, May 7th at 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Gozal is a pioneer in the study of childhood sleep problems and the relationships between sleep disorders and neurobehavioral, cardiovascular…

Trainee Mia Kelly Publishes in American Journal of Physiology

T32 Trainee Mia Kelly published her article in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology entitled, “Circadian clock genes and respiratory neuroplasticity genes oscillate in the phrenic motor system.”…

Joe Welch Awarded SCIRTS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Joe Welch, PhD, was awarded a Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. Dr. Welch’s project “Optimizing Acute Intermittent Hypoxia (AIH) to Improve Breathing in Humans with Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)” is guided…