The lab successfully renewed their first R01 (on the first submission!) and was recently awarded a $3 Million NIH Grant to continue their study of the central noradrenergic system in breathing and its potential roles in SIDS and Rett Syndrome for another five years. The first grant has a been a resounding success by establishing a foundational map…
We are excited to have Avery Twitchell-Heyne join the lab. Avery is a graduate of Rice University with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Under the current circumstances, she will be working from home to assist us in developing a comprehensive software suite for the analysis of cardio-respiratory waveforms (gotta do something in this…
Dr. Russell Ray received the American Physiological Society’s Respiratory Section New Investigator Award, a national award and the only one in his field!
We are excited to have our first post-doc, Savannah Barnett, joining the lab! Savannah did her Ph.D. work in the lab of Aihua Li at Dartmouth Medical School. Her thesis work was on the neurogenic role of high blood pressure in SH Rats, showing how a small subset of postnatally born hypothalamic neurons play a…