
Our Faculty


Georgia Bishop, PhD
- Education

Thomas Boyd, PhD
- Nicotinic receptors Acetylcholine Zebrafish Nicotine

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

Jonathan Godbout, PhD
- Neuroimmunology Microglia Macrophages Aging TBI Stress

Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD
- Education

Martin Haesemeyer, PhD
- Behavior Circuits Somatosensation Computation Zebrafish

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

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

Stuart Mangel, PhD

John Oberdick, PhD

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

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

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

Jason Wester, PhD
- Cortex Development Circuits Synaptic physiology

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

Hojjat Adeli, PhD

W. David Arnold, MD

Ruth Barrientos, PhD

Michele Basso, EdD, PT

Laurence Coutellier, PhD

Liang Guo, PhD

Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

Andrew Hartwick, PhD

Mark Hester, 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

Kristy Townsend, PhD

Bruce Trapp, PhD

Ruili Xie, PhD
Administrative Staff
Melissa Stenger
Department Administrator
Melissa.Stenger@osumc.edu
614-688-5501
Kelsey Wheeler
Administrative Coordinator
Kelsey.Wheeler@osumc.edu
614-688-8327
Phoebe Long
Administrative Assistant
Phoebe.Long@osumc.edu
614-293-6354