Co-Directors of the Masters in Applied Neuroscience

John Oberdick

John Oberdick, PhD

Co-Director of Masters in Applied Neuroscience program
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

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Kris Martens

Kris Martens, PhD

Co-Director of Masters in Applied Neuroscience program
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience

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Program Administration

Phoebe Long

Phoebe Price, MA

Program Manager, Department of Neuroscience

Melissa Stenger

Melissa Stenger

Erica Wynn-Brown

Erica Wynn-Brown

Masters in Applied Neuroscience Committee

Georgia Bishop

Georgia Bishop, PhD

Kris Martens, PhD

Kris Martens, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

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Melissa Stenger

Melissa Stenger

Administrator, Department of Neuroscience
Sara Gombash Lampe

Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Teaching Track Mentors

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Karl Obrietan, PhD

  • Circadian timing
    Cognition
    Calcium
    Synapse
    Alzheimer’s disease

Research Track Mentors

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Olga Kokiko-Cochran, PhD

  • Neurotrauma
    Inflammation
    Sleep disruption
    Stress
    Alzheimer’s disease
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Jay Fournier, PhD

  • Director - Mood and Anxiety Program
    Director - Division of Cognition and Emotion
    Associate Professor - Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
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Stephanie Gorka, PhD

  • Psychiatry and behavioral health
    Psychopathology
    fMRI
    Electroencephalography
    PTSD
    AUD (alcohol use disorder)
    Fear based anxiety
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Paco Herson, PhD

  • Associate Dean for Research Innovation Professor
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Glenn Lin, PhD

  • Neurodegenerative diseases
    Alzheimer’s disease
    Drug discovery and development
    Glutamate transporters
    Glutamatergic synapses
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Dana McTigue, PhD

  • Spinal cord injury
    Liver
    Oligodendrocyte
    Myelin
    Metabolic syndrome
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Karl Obrietan, PhD

  • Circadian timing
    Cognition
    Calcium
    Synapse
    Alzheimer’s disease
James Orfila

James Orfila, PhD

  • Neurophysiology
    Electrophysiology
    Neurobiology
Ilaria Palmisano

Ilaria Palmisano, PhD

  • Chromatin Biology
    Epigenetics
    Nerve/Spinal Injury
    Neuropathy
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Wenjing Sun, PhD

  • Myelination
    Oligodendrocyte precursor cell
    Neurotrauma
    Neuronal plasticity
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Andrea Tedeschi, PhD

  • Neurotrauma
    Stroke
    Axon growth and regeneration
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Jason Wester, PhD

  • Cortex Development Circuits
    Synaptic physiology
Ceren Yarar-Fisher

Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PhD

  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation
    Pathophysiology of traumatic spinal cord injury
    Neuro-recovery
    Metabolic and bowel function and microbiome composition