Hosted by the UF BREATHE and BRAIN Centers
📅 Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025
🕘 Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
📍 Location: Austin Cary Forest Campus
AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Check-in and Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Dr. Michael Jaffee
- Dr. Gordon Mitchell
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Session 1: Neuroinflammation, Glial Responses, and Sleep in Brain Injury
Moderator: Gordon Mitchell
- Alexandria Marciante – “Brain Injury and Breathing”
- Andrew Liu – “Mechanisms Inform Interventions: Sleep-Wake Disturbances in Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
- E. Kristobal Gudenschwager – “The Lasting Footprint of TBI: Sleep-Wake Disturbance, Neuroinflammation, and Comorbidity with Alcohol Use”
- Servio H. Ramirez – “Evidence of neuroinflammation in the reward pathway following (experimental) adolescent TBI”
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Break & Group Photo
10:45 – 11:45 AM
Session 2: Repetitive Head Impacts and Chronic Outcomes
Moderator: Mike Jaffee
- Breton Asken – “Transdiagnostic Implications of Repetitive Head Impact Exposure on Aging and AD/ADRD”
- Jay Clugston – “TBI-Related Research with the Athletic Association and the Student Health Care Center”
- Aliyah Snyder – “Autonomic Function and Assessment after TBI”
- Lakiesha Williams – “Quantifying Structural and Mechanical Changes in the Aging Brain”
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch – Networking & Brainstorming Big Ideas
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Session 3: Clinical Interventions and Health Systems Perspectives
Moderator: Mike Jaffee
- Katharina Busl & Carolina Maciel – “Guardians of the neuroaxis: from Injury to Insight. No Gap Left Behind”
- Alicia Vose – “Disrupted Airway Protection After Brain Injury: From Impairment to Innovation”
- Prodip Bose – “From Bleeding to Healing: Tackling Iron Overload in Brain Injury”
- Letitia Bible – “TBI and Stress”
2:00 – 2:45 PM
Session 4: Multiscale Approaches to TBI: Imaging, Physiology, and Prediction
Moderator: Joe Abisambra
- Brandon Zielinski – “Can Brain Network Imaging Impact Pediatric TBI?”
- John Williamson – “Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery Chronicity, Neurophysiological Features and Intervention Development”
- Suman Chowdhury – “Multiscale, Multiphysics Brain-Muscle Computational Modeling Framework”
2:45 – 3:30 PM
Open Discussion & Next Steps
- Joe Abisambra