Stephanie Wohlgemuth, PhD

My training as a clinical nurse and basic and translational scientist reflects my broad interest in animal (including human) physiology. My scientific interests center on metabolic and cellular responses to stress such as aging, disease, and environmental conditions, with particular focus on mitochondrial biology. In addition to traditional methodologies such as immunoblotting and PCR, I employ specialized instrumentation such as the Seahorse Flux Analyzer and the Oroboros Oxygraph to assess mitochondrial function. My research expertise spans from whole animal experiments to subcellular organelle isolation and functional assessment, in organisms from marine invertebrates and terrestrial nematods, rodents, and large farm animals, to humans. As the director of the Respirometry Core, I am providing expertise, services and training to the wider UF campus to explore mitochondrial biology. As part of UF’s teaching mission, I am directing the department’s online graduate program Innovative Aging Studies. My teaching experience includes undergraduate courses in biology and physiology as well as general laboratory skills, and graduate courses in muscle physiology, mitochondrial biology, and aging biology. In leadership positions in physiology laboratories for over 20 years, I have supervised, mentored, and trained undergraduate and graduate students, as well as technicians, postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty.