Teaching Track Mentors
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Georgia Bishop, PhD
- Education
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Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD
- Education
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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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Elisabetta Babetto, PhD
- Department of Neurology
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Bogdan Beirowski, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurology
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Andy Fischer, PhD
- Retina
Muller glia
Neuronal regeneration
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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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Elizabeth Kirby, PhD
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Kathryn Lenz, PhD
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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
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James Orfila, PhD
- Neurophysiology
Electrophysiology
Neurobiology
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Ilaria Palmisano, PhD
- Chromatin Biology Epigenetics Nerve/Spinal Injury Neuropathy
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Leah Pyter, PhD
- Associate Professor
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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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Kristy Townsend, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery
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Jason Wester, PhD
- Cortex Development Circuits
Synaptic physiology
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Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PhD
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Pathophysiology of traumatic spinal cord injury
Neuro-recovery
Metabolic and bowel function and microbiome composition