Teaching Track Mentors

Thomas Boyd, PhD
- Nicotinic receptors
Acetylcholine
Zebrafish
Nicotine

Georgia Bishop, PhD
- Education

Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD
- Education

Karl Obrietan, PhD
- Circadian timing
Cognition
Calcium
Synapse
Alzheimer’s disease
Research Track Mentors

Olga Kokiko-Cochran, PhD
- Neurotrauma
Inflammation
Sleep disruption
Stress
Alzheimer’s disease

Elisabetta Babetto, PhD
- Department of Neurology

Bogdan Beirowski, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurology

Andy Fischer, PhD
- Retina
Muller glia
Neuronal regeneration

Jay Fournier, PhD
- Director - Mood and Anxiety Program
Co-director - Division of Cognition and Emotion
Associate Professor - Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health

Paco Herson, PhD
- Associate Dean for Research Innovation
Professor

Elizabeth Kirby, PhD

Kathryn Lenz, PhD

Glenn Lin, PhD
- Neurodegenerative diseases
Alzheimer’s disease
Drug discovery and development
Glutamate transporters
Glutamatergic synapses

Dana McTigue, PhD
- Spinal cord injury
Liver
Oligodendrocyte
Myelin
Metabolic syndrome

Karl Obrietan, PhD
- Circadian timing
Cognition
Calcium
Synapse
Alzheimer’s disease

Leah Pyter, PhD
- Associate Professor

Wenjing Sun, PhD
- Myelination
Oligodendrocyte precursor cell
Neurotrauma
Neuronal plasticity

Andrea Tedeschi, PhD
- Neurotrauma
Stroke
Axon growth and regeneration

Kristy Townsend, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery

Jason Wester, PhD
- Cortex Development Circuits
Synaptic physiology