“By enhancing our ability to detect glial influence through advanced statistical methods, we open new avenues for exploring how neuron-glia interactions shape brain function,” says Rodrigo Pena. Find his research profile at expertnet.org.

“Understanding the earliest functional breakdown of dopamine neurons helps us design drugs or gene therapies aimed at restoring healthy firing patterns and network connectivity before irreversible damage occurs,” says Habibeh Khoshbouei. Her profile is at expertnet.org

Bramlett is working on a nasally delivered drug that would be used to lower a #neurotrauma patient's temperature in the ambulance to provide early intervention until they receive other therapeutic hypothermia treatments in hospital. Find her profile at expertnet.org.

Read on to learn about Daniela Radu and many other FIU ecologists, engineers, architects, data scientists, etc., working on scalable, resilience-promoting technologies. And find their research profiles at expertnet.org.

Zeng will work to develop more efficient cathodes, a component of every battery that determines how much energy can be stored in a battery and how much energy it supplies to a car. Find Zeng's research profile at expertnet.org.

USF's Xiaoming Liu and other researchers used a pathogenicity predicting model for small amino acid-changing mutations in human genomes. It distinguishes harmless mutations from those likely to cause future disease. Find Liu's profile at expertnet.org.

"You send X-rays through an object, and depending on what gets absorbed, you capture shadows at the detector. The problem is, the longer the distance, the weaker and noisier the shadows become," says Murray-Bruce. #imaging Find his research profile at expertnet.org.

"We use a size-selective filtration and direct optical analysis technique that can isolate and characterize exosomes within a single step," reducing processing time from hours to minutes and minimizing sample loss, says Qun Huo. Find her profile at expertnet.org.

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"Rust costs America more than $400 billion per year – more than all other natural disasters combined," says FAU's Isaac Elishakoff. His new approach helps predict how corrosion will impact a structure over time. #Rust Find Elishakoff's profile at expertnet.org.

UWF's Wade Jeffrey focuses on bacterial function and diversity in the ocean and the effects of ultraviolet radiation on #marinemicrobes. He has worked around the globe, including #Antarctica. Find Jeffrey's research profile at expertnet.org.

“Space is the ultimate high-stress environment for plants. On Earth, the extreme environments…include heat waves, drought and hard freezes,” says Wagner Vendrame. “This could be a way of generating more crops that are resilient.” Find his profile at expertnet.org.

“Mesopelagic fish live in deep, cold, high-pressure environments, and until now, it was unclear if they produced carbonate like shallow water fish do—or at what rate,” says researcher Martin Grosell. #carbon #climate #oceanchemistry Find his profile at expertnet.org.

“Florida is hurricane central,” says Nyce. “We have the highest catastrophe risk in the world for hurricanes … The world looks to us to solve this problem.” #insurance #Hurricane Find Nyce's profile at expertnet.org.

The team is developing a system to continuously detect pain by interpreting the infant’s movements, facial expressions, heart rate, and respiratory rate all together, says Thao "Tina" Ho. #NICU #infants Find Ho's research profile at expertnet.org.

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“We anticipate that each AI method will advance its respective state-of-the-art technology and can have performance superior to existing or traditional methods,” says researcher Yunjun Xu. #Agriculture #AI Find profiles for Xu and UCF collaborators at expertnet.org.

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“Lake Okeechobee is not just Florida’s largest freshwater reservoir; it serves as a vital resource for millions of people and supports the ecosystems that surround it,” says researcher Natalia Malina. Find Malina's profile at expertnet.org.

“The outcome will have a significant impact on accelerating the translation of novel, safe and effective therapeutics and genome editing strategies into first-in-human clinical trials,” says researcher Mei He. #GeneTherapy Find He's profile at expertnet.org.