
Our Faculty


Georgia Bishop, PhD
- Education

Anthony Brown, PhD
- Axon Cytoskeleton Axonal transport Neurodegenerative disease

Andy Fischer, PhD
- Retina
Muller glia
Neuronal regeneration

Harry Fu, PhD
- Alzheimer’s disease
Tau pathology
Neurotrauma
Glial pathology
ER stress

Jie Gao, PhD
- Alzheimer’s disease ApoE Microglia Lipids

Erica Glasper, PhD
- Behavior
Neuronal plasticity
Stress
Neuroimmunology
Microscopy

Jonathan Godbout, PhD
- Neuroimmunology Microglia Macrophages Aging TBI Stress

Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD
- Education

Bin Gu, PhD
- Epilepsy SUDEP Collaborative cross Systems genetics

Martin Haesemeyer, PhD
- Behavior Circuits Somatosensation Computation Zebrafish

Ashley Ingiosi, PhD
- Sleep
Astrocytes
Homeostasis
Biological rhythms
Glial-neuronal interactions

James Jontes, PhD
- Zebrafish Protocadherins Cell adhesion Neural development

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

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

Stuart Mangel, PhD

Kris Martens, PhD
- Education

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

Stephanie Muscat, PhD
- Education

John Oberdick, PhD
- Molecular neuroscience Opioids Development Genetics Cerebellum

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

Ilaria Palmisano, PhD
- Chromatin Biology Epigenetics Nerve/Spinal Injury Neuropathy

Giles Plant, PhD
- Spinal Cord Injury
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Regeneration
Gene Therapy

Phillip Popovich, PhD
- Neuroimmunology Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury

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

Andrea Tedeschi, PhD
- Neurotrauma
Stroke
Axon growth and regeneration

Cole Vonder Haar, PhD
- TBI Behavior Psychiatric Rat

Jacy Wagnon, PhD
- Epilepsy Genetics Sodium channels Gene expression MicroRNA

Jason Wester, PhD
- Cortex Development Circuits
Synaptic physiology

Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PhD, PT
- Spinal cord injury
Metabolic function
Microbiome
Neurorecovery
Nutrition

Lihua Ye, PhD
- Microbiota
Gut-brain communication
Interoception
Chemosensing
Metabolism

Min Zhou, MD, PhD
- Astrocyte Gap junction Potassium channels Syncytial isopotentiality Stroke
Affiliated Faculty

Hojjat Adeli, PhD

Ruth Barrientos, PhD

Michele Basso, EdD, PT

Laurence Coutellier, PhD

Liang Guo, PhD

Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

Andrew Hartwick, PhD

Paco Herson, PhD
- Associate Dean for Research Innovation Professor

Mark Hester, PhD

Elizabeth Kirby, PhD

Stephen Kolb, MD, PhD

Sandra Kostyk, MD, PhD

Vibhor Krishna, MBBS

Kathryn Lenz, PhD

Benedetta Leuner, PhD

Russell Lonser, MD

Amy Lovett-Racke, PhD

Ulysses Magalang, MD

Shahid Nimjee, MD, PhD

Jose Otero, MD, PhD

Leah Pyter, PhD

Jan Schwab, MD, PhD

John Sheridan, PhD, MS

Hiroki Taniguchi, PhD

Kristy Townsend, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery

Ruili Xie, PhD
Administrative Staff
Melissa Stenger
Department Administrator
Melissa.Stenger@osumc.edu
614-688-5501
Phoebe Price
Program Manager
Phoebe.price@osumc.edu
614-688-8327
Erica Wynn-Brown
Administrative Assistant
erica.wynn-brown@osumc.edu
614-293-6354