PAGLIARDINI LAB NEWS

SPRING/SUMMER 2022

Congratulations Tara on your CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Cardani, S. Janes, T.A., Saini, J.K., Di Lascio, S., Benfante, R., Fornasari, D., Pagliardini, S. Etonogestrel Administration Reduces the Expression of PHOX2B and Its Target Genes in the Solitary Tract Nucleus Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23(9), 4816; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094816

Congratulations Katherine on your AIHS Summer Internship!

FALL 2021/WINTER 2022

Congratulation to Brandon for defending his PhD in Neuroscience!

Congratulations to Xiaqiu for defending her MSc degree in Physiology, best of luck at UBC!

Welcome to the world Nala, and congratulations to Annette and Peter!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Saini JK, Janes TA, MacLean JE, Pagliardini S. Expiratory activity during sleep in children. J Sleep Res. 2021 Dec 18:e13539. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13539. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34921704

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Hauer BE, Pagliardini S, Dickson CT. Prefrontal-Hippocampal Pathways Through the Nucleus Reuniens Are Functionally Biased by Brain State. Front Neuroanat. 2022 Jan 31;15:804872. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2021.804872. eCollection 2021. PMID: 35173588

Congratulations to Tara for winning best presentation awards at the WCHRI Research Day and the Alberta Respiratory Centre Research Day!

Welcome to the lab to Will and Dhruv - Undergraduate students are again in the lab!

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

Welcome to our new MITACS SUMMER STUDENTS, Jacob G. and Olena D., working remotely from Chicago and Ukraine!

Thanks for working with us Kazi this past year, we wish you all the best!

FALL 2020/WINTER 2021

Welcome to Dr. Silvia Cardani , new post-doc in the lab working on sex hormone and respiratory control.

Congratulations Vivian on being awarded the NMHI post-doctoral Fellowship!

SPRING/SUMMER 2020

Welcome to Dr. Kazi Ahmed , new post-doc in the lab working on cannabinoids and respiratory control.

Congratulations Tara on being awarded the Canadian Lung Association Fellowship!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Biancardi V, Saini J, Pageni A, Prashaad M H, Funk GD, Pagliardini S. Mapping of the excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Jul 12. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32656849

WINTER 2020

A year to remember - COVID-19 is affecting our world and our way of working

Welcome to Dr. Tara Janes , new post-doc in the lab working on sex hormone and respiratory control.

FALL 2019

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Chemogenetic modulation of the parafacial respiratory group influences the recruitment of abdominal activity during REM sleep. Pisanski A, Ding X, Koch NA, Pagliardini S. Sleep. 2019 Nov 20. pii: zsz283. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsz283. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 31747042

Congratulations to Vivian for winning 3rd place best PDF poster presentation at the WCHRI Research day!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: The Reuniens Nucleus of the Thalamus Has an Essential Role in Coordinating Slow-Wave Activity between Neocortex and Hippocampus. Hauer BE, Pagliardini S, Dickson CT. eNeuro. 2019 Oct 17;6(5). pii: ENEURO.0365-19.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0365-19.2019. Print 2019 Sep/Oct.

Congratulations to Jashan for winning best poster presentation at the FOMD Summer Student Research day!

Welcome back to Canada, Xiaqiu (PHYSL Graduate student) thanks to MITACS studentship support and farewell and good luck to Tata.

SPRING/SUMMER 2019

Welcome to the lab, Hema Prashaad (UARE summer internship student, national University of Singapore) and Tian Qin (MITACS Summer internship student, Jilin University, China)

Welcome back to lab, Xiao and Jashan for another summer of exciting work

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Routine use of post-bronchodilator testing in pulmonary function testing labs. Agarwal J, Saad E, Fontaine G, Pagliardini S, Dafoe W, Killian K, Gibney RTN, Huston J, Vethanayagam D. Clin Invest Med. 2019 Jan 30;41(4):E204-E210. doi: 10.25011/cim.v41i4.32224.

Congratulations Annette on being awarded NSERC CGS studentship!

WINTER 2019

Farewell to Nils, it was great having you in the lab and best of luck for Graduate School in Germany!

Congratulations Vivian on being awarded the WCHRI Post-doctoral fellowship!

Welcome to the lab, Tamari Shalamberidze (NMHI Graduate student) and Anileen Pageni (UGRD PHYSL student)

FALL 2018

Congratulations Annette on being awarded the Canadian Lung Association Breathing As One Graduate Scholarship!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Comparison of inhaled versus intravenous anesthesia for laryngoscopy and laryngeal electromyography in a rat model. Gazzaz M, Saini J, Pagliardini S, Tsui B, Jeffery C, El-Hakim H. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018 Oct 20;47(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s40463-018-0312-9. PUBMED LINK

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Hyperoxia enhances slow-wave forebrain states in urethane-anesthetized and naturally sleeping rats. Hauer BE, Negash B, Chan K, Vuong W, Colbourne F, Pagliardini S, Dickson CT. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Oct 1;120(4):1505-1515. doi: 10.1152/jn.00373.2018. Epub 2018 Jun 27. PUBMED LINK

Congratulations Jasmeen on receiving the 75th Anniversary Graduate Scholarship from the University of Alberta!

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

Welcome to our new undergraduate summer students Xiao Yu and Jashan Saini

Welcome to our MITACS summer internship student from Sichuan University, Xiaqiu Yang!

Congratulation Nils on being awarded with undergraduate summer studentships from NSERC, AIHS and WCHRI!

NEW ARTICLE ALERT: The parafacial respiratory group and the control of active expiration. Pisanski A, Pagliardini S. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2018 Jun 19. pii: S1569-9048(18)30100-9. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2018.06.010. [Epub ahead of print] PUBMED LINK

WINTER 2018

Great news, our lab was awarded a Project scheme grant from the Canadian Institute of Health and Research!