News from 2024-2025
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
Welcome 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.
December 30th, 2024
Wishing two DPT students farewell
As all good things must come to and end, two DPT students, Rachel and Kaylyn, who have been working in the lab are headed for their final clinicals. We will surely miss them!
December 3rd, 2024
Forward Thinking Symposium
Amanda and Taylor represented the lab at this years Forward Thinking Symposium at MU.
November 5th, 2024
Our team is growing!
We are very excited to welcome the newest member of our lab. Paloma has made the long journey from Brazil and will be helping us to advance our knowledge on phrenic afferents. Welcome Paloma!
October 25th, 2024
CTSI Workshop
As a CTSI awardee, Taylor spent a few days in Madison, Wisconsin presenting his work, networking, and gaining experience in mentoring.
October 9th, 2024
SFN 2024
We hopped on a train and headed to Chicago for Society for Neuroscience. Amanda shared our exciting data on viral tools to target afferents.
October 5th, 2024
Hypoxia Symposium
Kaylyn and Rachel expanded their rehabilitation knowledge and attended the Intermittent Hypoxia Symposium at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab in Chicago.
September 30th, 2024
Oxford Conference
We traveled to historic Williamsburg Virginia to the 16th Oxford Conference on Breathing, Emotion, and Beyond. Taylor had a great talk showcasing his work on diaphragm pacing after spinal cord injury.
September 26th, 2024
Exercise and Rehabilitation Science Seminar
We had a great day welcoming Jerry Dempsey to campus and discussing our shared loved for afferents.
September 21st, 2024
Marquette Challenge
The Physical Therapy students and faculty spent the day raising money for the Marquette Challenge which raises money for Physical Therapy Research.
August 19th, 2024
Top JAPPL Manuscript
Our new manuscript was selected as a "Top Journal of Applied Physiology Article." With over 100 downloads in the first month we couldn't be more proud of our team! Click below to take a read.
August 2nd, 2024
Congrats to our summer undergrads
Our summer undergrads worked hard over the last 10 weeks to complete their research projects. They both successfully completed the SUR program and we couldn't be more proud. Congrats ladies!
July 1st, 2024
Manuscript alert!
Our new manuscript entitled "Sex differences in spontaneous respiratory recovery following chronic C2 hemisection" is now available in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
June 8th, 2024
CTSI National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Training Program (TL1)
A huge congratulations to Dr. Taylor Holmes for being selected to receive the CTSI TL1 award. This award will foster Taylor's development as a researcher and promote clinical and translational collaborations.
June 3rd, 2024
Summer Undergraduate Research
Summer session has officially begun and we could not be more excited to have two talented students working in the lab full time through the Marquette Biomedical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program. This program is open to students enrolled at MU and other universities and is a great opportunity to enhance your exposure and proficiency in research.
May 3rd, 2024
APTA Margaret L. Moore Award for Outstanding New Academic Faculty Member
I am humbled and honored to receive the 2024 Margaret L. Moore Award for Outstanding New Academic Faculty Member from the American Physical Therapy Association. This award acknowledges an outstanding new faculty member who is pursuing a career as an academician and has demonstrated excellence in research and teaching as exemplified by the professional career of Margaret L. Moore.
April 19th, 2024
Biology Department Undergraduate Research Day
Amanda presented her data on developing AAV approaches to target phrenic afferent neurons at this year's Biology Department Undergraduate Research Day. Way to go Amanda!
April 17th, 2024
Welcome
We are so excited to welcome a new member to the Streeter lab. Felix is joining us as a full time technician. Welcome to the lab Felix!
February 23rd, 2024
3-minute thesis competition
Frank did us proud and received the People's Choice Award and Runner-up Award at the 2024 Marquette University 3MT competition. Congratulatoins Frank!
February 15th, 2024
APTA Combined Sections Meeting
Dr. Taylor Holmes is off to represent our lab and showcase his work on developing a model for chronic diaphragm pacing at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in Boston.
January, 2024
American Physiological Summit
Congrats to my students Dr. Taylor Holmes and Kaylyn Schwichtenberg for each having an accepted abstract to the APS meeting. We are looking forward to scientific discussions and social events in Long Beach!
January, 2024
Manuscript Alert
Dr. Taylor Holmes has submitted his first lead author manuscript exploring the impact of sex after spinal cord injury. Congrats Taylor!
January 2nd, 2024
Open Positions
We are looking for motivated individuals to fill a full-time lab technician position and have an open position for a graduate student. These individuals will work as part of a team exploring mechanisms of plasticity and an exciting area of respiratory neural control: afferent mediated changes in respiratory motor output.