
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

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

John Oberdick, PhD
- Molecular neuroscience Opioids Development Genetics Cerebellum

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

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
- Associate Professor

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

Bruce Trapp, PhD

Ruili Xie, PhD
Administrative Staff
Melissa Stenger
Department Administrator
Melissa.Stenger@osumc.edu
614-688-5501
Phoebe Long
Program Manager
Phoebe.Long@osumc.edu
614-293-6354
Administrative Assistant
Shannon.Sankey@osumc.edu
614-293-6354