Alves, Michele

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biography

  • Dr. Michele Alves earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at University of São Paulo, Brazil. During her PhD, she was a recipient of CAPES/DAAD scholarship, spending almost a year in a metabolism-focused lab at the Institute for Human Nutrition, University of Potsdam, Germany.

    Dr. Alves’s postdoctoral training in neuroscience was obtained at The Ohio State University (OSU), Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, OH. She gained expertise in neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuroinflammation focusing on the neural control of breathing and metabolism between laboratories at Neuropathology and Neurosurgery Departments at OSU.

    Throughout her postdoctoral training, Dr. Alves was the recipient of A.D. Sobel Trainee Scholar Award in 2022, Marion and Lawrence Muller Neurodegenerative Research Award for Outstanding Research in 2023, ASIP 2024 Experimental Pathologist-in-Training Merit Award, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Society for Investigative Pathobiology.

    Dr. Alves research at FIU is dedicated to investigating the remodeling of respiratory networks on the central nervous system. Our translational research focuses on the interplay between neural, immune, and metabolic systems, particularly how these interactions influence communication between neurons and glia.

research interests

  • Neonatal immunity; Inflammation; Neonatal Sepsis; Respiratory Chemoreflexes; Neuronal Transmission; Glia activation; IL6 pathway; R programming; Machine learning.

selected scholarly works & creative activities

full name

  • Michele Alves

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