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 to receive…
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 at…
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 issue…
Recently Phi Zeta 2024 occurred. Many of our students and faculty won awards. The 2nd place award for Graduate student goes to Gabbie Robilotto who is mentored by Dr. Aaron Mickel on her research on Investigating Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor in Experimental Autoimmune Cystitis. The 3rd place for Postdoc…
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…
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…
Dr. Aguirre’s outstanding teaching efforts are recognized by the students, and she was voted Teacher of the Year by the DVM Class of 2024! Dr. Aguirre coordinates and teaches in large animal anatomy for the first-year DVM students. Congratulations, and well deserved!…
Congratulations to Dr. Rick Johnson for winning two teaching awards this year! The Teacher of the Year Award for the Class of 2025! The SCAVMA Teacher of the Year Award for the Biological Sciences.
Dr. Reznikov Outstanding teaching efforts are recognized by the students and she was voted Teacher of the Year by the DVM Class of 2024! Congratulations! …
Dr. Firoj Alom, a postdoctoral associate in the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of physiological sciences, has received a 2022 Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award, which will support his research for two years. He received the award for a study on the development of an optogenetic-based strategy…
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