Our Faculty

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Candice Askwith, PhD

  • Ischemia
    Ion Channels
    Synaptic Plasticity
    Primary Cilia
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Georgia Bishop, PhD

  • Education
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Anthony Brown, PhD

  • Axon
    Cytoskeleton
    Axonal transport
    Neurodegenerative disease
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Andy Fischer, PhD

  • Retina
    Muller glia
    Neuronal regeneration
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Harry Fu, PhD

  • Alzheimer’s disease
    Tau pathology
    Neurotrauma
    Glial pathology
    ER stress
Jie Gao, PhD

Jie Gao, PhD

  • Alzheimer’s disease
    ApoE
    Microglia
    Lipids
Erica Glasper, PhD

Erica Glasper, PhD

  • Behavior
    Neuronal plasticity
    Stress
    Neuroimmunology
    Microscopy
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Jonathan Godbout, PhD

  • Neuroimmunology
    Microglia
    Macrophages
    Aging
    TBI
    Stress
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Sara Gombash Lampe, PhD

  • Education
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Bin Gu, PhD

  • Epilepsy
    SUDEP
    Collaborative cross
    Systems genetics
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Martin Haesemeyer, PhD

  • Behavior
    Circuits
    Somatosensation
    Computation
    Zebrafish
Ashley Ingiosi, PhD

Ashley Ingiosi, PhD

  • Sleep
    Astrocytes
    Homeostasis
    Biological rhythms
    Glial-neuronal interactions
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Olga Kokiko-Cochran, PhD

  • Neurotrauma
    Inflammation
    Sleep disruption
    Stress
    Alzheimer’s disease
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Glenn Lin, PhD

  • Neurodegenerative diseases
    Alzheimer’s disease
    Drug discovery and development
    Glutamate transporters
    Glutamatergic synapses
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Stuart Mangel, PhD

  • Synaptic plasticity and modulation in the retina
    Circadian rhythms
    Information processing
    Transporter function
    Development of synaptic function
    Neuronal degeneration
    Computational neuroscience
Kris Martens, PhD

Kris Martens, PhD

  • Education
    TBI
    Behavior
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Dana McTigue, PhD

  • Spinal cord injury
    Liver
    Oligodendrocyte
    Myelin
    Metabolic syndrome
Stephanie Muscat

Stephanie Muscat, PhD

  • Education
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John Oberdick, PhD

  • Molecular neuroscience
    Opioids
    Development
    Genetics
    Cerebellum
    Education
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Karl Obrietan, PhD

  • Circadian timing
    Cognition
    Calcium
    Synapse
    Alzheimer’s disease
Ilaria Palmisano

Ilaria Palmisano, PhD

  • Chromatin Biology
    Epigenetics
    Nerve/Spinal Injury
    Neuropathy
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Giles Plant, PhD

  • Spinal Cord Injury
    Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
    Regeneration
    Gene Therapy
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Phillip Popovich, PhD

  • Neuroimmunology
    Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury
Sabhya Rana, PhD

Sabhya Rana, PhD

  • Spinal cord injury
    Neurotrauma
    Neuromodulation
    Motor circuits
    Neural and Glial Circuits
    Neuronal plasticity
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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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Cole Vonder Haar, PhD

  • TBI
    Behavior
    Psychiatric
    Rat
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Jacy Wagnon, PhD

  • Epilepsy
    Genetics
    Sodium channels
    Gene expression
    MicroRNA
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Jason Wester, PhD

  • Cortex Development Circuits
    Synaptic physiology
Ceren Yarar-Fisher

Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PhD

  • Spinal Cord Injury
    Rehabilitation
Lihua Ye, PhD

Lihua Ye, PhD

  • Microbiota
    Gut-brain communication
    Interoception
    Chemosensing
    Metabolism
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Min Zhou, MD, PhD

  • Astrocyte
    Gap junction
    Potassium channels
    Syncytial isopotentiality
    Stroke

Affiliated Faculty

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Ruth Barrientos, PhD

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Michele Basso, EdD, PT

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Laurence Coutellier, PhD

Carl (Nicholas) Fetko

Carl Fetko, MD

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Liang Guo, PhD

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Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

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Andrew Hartwick, PhD

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Paco Herson, PhD

  • Associate Dean for Research Innovation Professor
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Mark Hester, PhD

Megan Keiser

Megan Keiser

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Elizabeth Kirby, PhD

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Stephen Kolb, MD, PhD

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Sandra Kostyk, MD, PhD

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Vibhor Krishna, MBBS

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Kathryn Lenz, PhD

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Benedetta Leuner, PhD

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Russell Lonser, MD

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Ulysses Magalang, MD

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Shahid Nimjee, MD, PhD

Teng Leng Ooi

Teng Ooi

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Leah Pyter, PhD

  • Director of Institute of Behavioral Medicine
Hiroki Taniguchi, PhD

Hiroki Taniguchi, PhD

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Kristy Townsend, PhD

  • Department of Neurosurgery
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Ruili Xie, PhD