We are so extremely lucky to have Jake Chalfin on our research team. He is a truly remarkable and giving individual, who volunteers his time to help us be better scientists. I sometimes forget just how lucky we are. Thank you Jake. https://u2fp.org/get-educated/curecast/episode-59.html
Congratulations to Yashvi Shah!
Congratulations Yashvi Shah for being awarded first place in the undergraduate presentations at the annual AAAS meeting! Congrats also to Alessia Niceforo for mentoring, training & supporting Yashvi! This is a really awesome accomplishment
Discussions with Spinal Cord Injury BC
It was so good to have the chance to speak to everyone today. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity!
https://sci-bc.ca/event-dir/sci-respiratory-research/
Journal of Neuroscience
Honored to not only be a part of this important issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, but also have our data shown on the cover!
COVID-19
The novel corona virus COVID-19 is affecting vast numbers of people around the world and it looks like it may become worse in coming weeks. This is placing a massive burden on health care facilities around the country and overseas, resulting in a shortage of many essential medical supplies, such as gloves and masks. The Lane Lab - together with the medical education team and other investigators in the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center and the Department of Neurobiology - has begun collecting spare surgical supplies to donate to local hospitals and health professionals. If anyone is interested in helping, and looking for ways to alleviate this growing issue, feel free to email us and we can put you in touch with several health care facilities in need.
International Symposium on Neural Regeneration
Several members of the Lane Lab, along with many students and faculty from the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center, attended the 18th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration at Asilomar Lodge in Pacific Grove, California. The meeting was not only well attended, it was said to be one of the best of its kind in many years. The meeting began with a session dedicated to Marion Murray - co-founder of the Spinal Cord Research Center at Drexel, long time spinal cord injury researcher, and incredible friend and mentor to so many. Dr. Lane also chaired a session on spinal interneurons - a topic that is rapidly becoming of interest to the field of SCI researchers and the subject of a book to be released by Elsevier in the coming year.
International Spinal Cord Repair (ISCORE) 2019
In mid December, Dr Lane presented at the International Spinal Cord Repair (ISCORE) 2019. Hosted by the Step by Step Foundation and held in the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista.
Michael gives a seminar at the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF)
In December Dr Lane was invited by Dr Victoria Moreno Manzano to visit the Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe (CIPF) in Valencia, Spain. Dr Lane said that it was a remarkable Institute with excellent investigators. “I look forward to collaborating with Dr Moreno and her research team in the near future.” said Dr Lane.
National Neurotrauma Society - Annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA
Congratulations to Margo Randelman who received the Goldstein Award at the National Neurotrauma Meeting. Dr Lane also hosted a session at the meeting on Spinal Interneurons and Spinal Cord Injury
American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) meeting in Honolulu
Congratulations to Margo Randelman who received a presentation award at the ASIA meeting in Hawaii. Her presentation was well received by a diverse audience at a well attended meeting.
American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair
Congratulations to Drs. Lana Zholudeva and Michael Lane for winning the 1st Annual Paul J Reier Award, and the Molly and Bernard Sanberg Award, respectively. The Paul J Reier Award - given to the best presentation by a trainee at the meeting - honors a senior investigator (the awards namesake) that continues to make a remarkable contribution to spinal cord and neurotrauma research at the University of Florida. The Molly and Paul Sanberg Award recognizes the awardees significant contributions in the field of Neural Repair,
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uosf-dus042419.php
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego 2018
The team attended the Motor Systems Symposium at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, California. Both meetings were outstanding, and presentations were well received. Michael and Lana were also honored to present at the Christopher Reeve Stem Cell Symposium at the meeting, hosted by Evan Snyder.
Spinal Research Trust, 2018
The team visited London, UK to present their work at the 20th annual network meeting of the International Spinal Research Trust. Many thanks to the organizers for a spectacular meeting, great discussions and the chance to see the very latest in advances in the field.
Hot of the press!
Lana Zholudeva's review on Spinal Interneurons and Plasticity following Spinal Cord Injury is now out in this months issue of Trends in Neurosciences
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(18)30165-6
Hot off the press!
Our new paper reveals that transplanting V2a spinal interneurons into the injured cervical spinal cord improves breathing. Congratulations to Lana Zholudeva on this really nice paper! Its a really interesting study, but its the tip of the iceberg. We are still learning how to best harness these cells for therapies.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/du-lni060618.php
Margo Randelman
Margo presented her latest work to colleagues at the Neurobiology Research in Progress (Drexel College of Medicine).
Hot off the Press!
2018 Philadelphia Consortium - Think Tank
The first Philadelphia Consortium Think Tank was held on Friday, organized by Drs. MJ Mulcahey and Steve Williams. It was a successful day of collaborative ideas and research planning with the goal of optimizing spinal cord injury research programs. Philadelphia is a hub for SCI research, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and rehabilitation. We look forward to seeing the Consortium strengthen the research being done.
Many thanks
A huge thanks to Lana Zholudeva and Margo Randelman who represented the research team at 2 conferences in Florida: the 2nd Intermittent Hypoxia Retreat in Gainesville, and the combined International Symposium on Neural Transplantation and Restoration (INTR) / American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair, in Clearwater Florida. Congratulations both Margo and Lana for receiving travel awards, and especially to Lana for being invited to give a platform presentation at INTR!
INTR / ASNTR Transplant Meeting
The 15th International Symposium on Neural Transplantation and Restoration (INTR), and the 26th annual meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (ASNTR), kicked off in Clearwater, Florida. The meeting is being attended by internationally renowned experts in neural transplantation and repair.
