

Welcome to the Streeter Lab at Marquette University
We live, sleep, and "breathe" respiratory neural control research.
Recent News
Featured article
We are honored that our work on spinal cord injury was featured in the Marquette Magazine (pages 22-23). Click the below link or head over to "Lab Photos" to check it out!
April 11th, 2026
New Paper
A new Streeter lab paper is headed for press! Stay tuned to read about phrenic afferent induced plasticity or pAIP.
March 15th, 2026
WASA heading to the National Championship
The Milwaukee Wheelchair rugby team, including our consultant Tony Sabel, is headed to the National Championships. Congrats all!
March 5th, 2026
APS Award
Congratulations are in order for Felix Sanchez for being selected as an awardee of the Respiration Section Research Recognition Award from American Physiological Society. This award is in recognition of his new exciting data linking phrenic afferents to upper airway latency.
January 22nd, 2026
Giles F Filley
I am humbled to receive the 2026 Giles F. Filley Award from the American Physiological Society for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine. This wouldn't be possible without the dedication and hard work of all the trainees who have participated in our studies. What an achievement team!
November 5th, 2025
TV interview
Check out our interview about our work on spinal cord injury and how it may impact lives of individuals with spinal cord injury like our consultant Tony Sabel.
November 4th, 2025
Welcome
Welcome to our newest lab members Dominick, Beth, and Haylee!
November 1st, 2025
WASA Try It
The lab had a great time supporting the WASA Try It event hosted at Marquette University this weekend. Members helped to staff the event, play wheelchair rugby, and test out moving around in wheelchairs. Some highlighted photos are included in the lab photo tab.
September 11th, 2025
Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi
We welcomed our AHPRC speaker Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi this week. We spent time sharing new data listening about the current practices related to acute-intermittent hypoxia and getting our teams together to kick off new joint projects.
August 27th, 2025
Diaphragm Pacing Elicits Plasticity after C2Hx Manuscript
Our newest manuscript is officially available. Check it out!
August 25th, 2025
Happy first day of graduate school
Felix has begun his PhD journey in the Neuroscience Program. We are excited to watch you grow!
June 30th, 2025
Dr. Taylor Holmes, PhD
We are so proud to announce Taylor officially passed his dissertation defense and successfully obtained his PhD.
May 12th, 2025
New Paper Alert
Using AAV to label phrenic afferents is now available. Congrats team!
April 29th, 2025
Three Minute Thesis
Taylor brought home a win as he took first place in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition for the TL1 Awardees.
April 22nd, 2025
Picture This Competition
Amanda and Paloma's photo of AAV labeled phrenic afferents and spinal neurons has been selected as a winning photo in this year competition. Congrats ladies!
April 11th, 2025
WPR interview
I recently did an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio on the impacts of funding cuts to spinal injury research.
February 16th, 2025
Way Klingler Early Career Award
I am humbled to announce I have been selected to receive the 2025-2026 Way Klingler Early Career Award sponsored by the Klingler family. This award will allow our team to focus our efforts on translating our important work.
February 10th, 2025
Paper Alert!
In collaboration with Dr. Erica Dale's laboratory at the University of Florida, we are excited to share our newly published work which describes methods for a simple, low-cost implant to collect chronic diaphragm EMG signals. Congrats Taylor, a job well done!
February 5th, 2025
Department of Defense
We are very excited to begin a new line of work in collaboration with Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi at the University of Florida, which has been recently funded by the Department of Defense. This work will focus on testing novel therapies to improve breathing after spinal cord injury.

RESEARCH
The fundamental hypothesis guiding our work is that respiratory afferents induce spinal plasticity and facilitate remodeling within the respiratory neural network. Our laboratory uses a multi-disciplinary approach including behavioral studies, neurophysiological preparations, and molecular techniques to investigate the functional significance and therapeutic potential of respiratory afferent activation, with the ultimate goal of identifying novel rehabilitative strategies to improve cardiorespiratory control following cervical spinal cord injury
CONTACT US
Marquette University is located in historic downtown Milwaukee, WI
If you are interested in learning more, have questions about our research, or want to join our team please contact us below: