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Amanda Pineda is working with Dr. Emma Schachner.

Dr Leah Reznikov and her team are awarded a new R21. R21 is an exploratory/ developmental grant. It supports innovative and developmental work. The work is title Emerging impact on airway health by airborne red tide toxins following major hurricanes Helene and Milton at the Gulf coast. Her Multiple Principal…

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 of…

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 lead to…

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 outstanding scholarship by…

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 as…

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…

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…