1. Respiratory rhythm and pattern generation: Brainstem cellular and circuit mechanisms 2. Central respiratory chemoreception 3. Neurobiology of the carotid body 4. Adaptive cardiorespiratory changes to chronic continuous and intermittent hypoxia 5. Early development of the breathing network 6. Critical roles for breathing in the genesis and modulation of emotional states 7. Breathing during sleep 8. The physiology and pathophysiology of exercise hyperpnea 9. Regulation of breathing by cardiopulmonary afferents 10. Respiratory-cardiovascular interactions 11. Dyspnea 12. The pathophysiology of opioid-induced respiratory depression 13. The sigh and related behaviors 14. Neural control of the lower airways: Role in cough and airway inflammatory disease 15. The phrenic neuromuscular system 16. Respiratory neuroplasticity: Mechanisms and translational implications of phrenic motor plasticity