Pineda Takes 3rd Place for Songbird Lung Anatomy Poster
Amanda Pineda is working with Dr. Emma Schachner.
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Dr. Donald Bolser Wins Award
Dr. Bolser received last month an award, a gold medal, from the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Slovakia for “outstanding contribution to the development of experimental neurophysiology of the cough reflex at the Institute of Medical Biophysics. The Jessenius Faculty of Medicine is a medical school…
Dr Emma Schachner & Dr Leah Reznikov win 2025 CVM Spring Faculty Grant Competition
Their project is entitled “Development of the respiratory system in the chick: airways, air sacs, and innervation patterns”. Dr Schachner is lead PI and Dr Reznikov is co/secondary PI This proposal included: Avian medicine or avian biology Neuroscience Airway biology Imaging techniques Overall, this exciting application may…
Department Shines at 2025 CVM Phi Zeta Competition
CVM-Wide Phi Zeta Competition Highlights Departmental Excellence We are proud to share that the department was well represented at the 2025 CVM-wide Phi Zeta competition that took place on April 24th and 25th, 2025. Liz Brammer-Robbins was honored with the Excellence in Doctoral Studies Award, which recognizes…
Advancing Pneumonia Treatment in Dogs: RESTORED Clinical Trial
Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of acute lung injury in dogs. Severe cases require hospitalization with oxygen supplementation in addition to other therapies, which generally cost $2,000-4,000. Despite advances in veterinary medicine, treatment for pneumonia is still largely supportive, including broad-spectrum antibiotics, supplemental oxygen, and fluids…
Early-Career Anatomist Publication Awards- The Anatomical Record
Emma Schachner, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, where she teaches anatomy to veterinary students. Her research focuses on the evolution of structural and functional diversity in the vertebrate respiratory system. Emma is honored…
Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Baú wins Travel Award
Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Baú has recently been awarded the travel award at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago on Oct 5th – 9th, 2024. Dr. Leah Reznikov severed as his mentor. He also received a Gator NeuroScholar fellowship from the McKnight Brian Institute. Dr. Trevizan-Baú is also a postdoc…
Best Poster Presentation
Dr. Helen Zomer recently attended the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) annual meeting that took place on April 25-26, 2024, in Arlington, Virgina. She presented her poster on Healing Skin Wounds in Older Adults. The poster was on research that tackles chronic skin wounds, a common…
Assistant Professor John Bowden was selected as a 2023 Emerging Investigator by the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Congratulations to John Bowden as he was selected by the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry as “2023 Emerging Investigator” see for more details https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jasms.3c00293?ref=pdf…
Aaron Mickle receives UF’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Dr. Mickle, an assistant professor in the department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the 2023 University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, a campus-wide achievement and top honor for junior faculty. Dr. Mickle’s main research focuses on…
