Department of Neurology

Lab Members

Faculty

Principal Investigator
Jonathan R. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neurology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Director, Neurology Residency Research Track
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Neurobiology & Behavior
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
Research Affiliate, Center for Innate Immunity & Immune Disease (CIIID)
Research Member, Fred Hutch/UW/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium Member

2023 Weill Neurohub Investigator

2017 UW Undergraduate Research Mentor Award recipient

Ashley McDonough, Ph.D., Acting Assistant Professor
Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Career Development (KL2) Award winner 2021 – 2024

National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship Award Recipient 2016-2019 from NIH/NINDS

Research Scientists

Brendan Schweitzer

Mitzi Adler-Wachter

Visiting Scientists

Sibylle Hodecker, MD

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Amy Rude

Emily Verran

UW Collaborators

Andy Shih
Principal investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine 
Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Bioengineering 
University of Washington School of Medicine

Suman Jayadev
Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

J. Lee Nelson
Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Washington School of Medicine

C. Michael Crowder
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Gregory J. del Zoppo
Professor, Division of Hematology, Adjunct Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Donghoon Lee
Research Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Garth Terry
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Bruce R. Ransom
Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Margaret A. Hamner
Affiliate Acting Instructor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Kyra J. Becker
Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Thomas Moeller
Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington

Sean P. Murphy
Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington School of Medicine

Post-doctoral Fellow Alumni

Shahani Noor
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2013 – 2014  Ischemic Preconditioning, microglia and type 1 interferon signaling

UW Neuroscience Graduate Student Alumni

Cara Nielson
2021 Lab rotation – Effect of ischemic preconditioning and microglial depletion on the nodes of Ranvier in white matter

German Rojas
2019 Lab rotation – Effects of CSF1R antagonist treatment on microglia depletion in white matter 

Lauren Hood
2014 Lab rotation – Role of CD24 and Siglec-G on neuroinflammatory response to stroke 

UW Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Alumni

Marina Han
2019 Lab rotation – Effects of CX3CR1 antagonism on post stroke neuroinflammatory response

UW Medical Student Alumni

Ravneet Ranu

2023 Lab rotation – Scholarship of Discovery III program project:  Effect of ischemic preconditioning and microglial depletion on nodes of Ranvier 

Heather Chung

2023 Lab rotation – Scholarship of Discovery III program project:  Development and optimization of neurobehavioral and cognitive testing paradigms to be used for studies with novel transgenic mouse model of vascular cognitive impairment 

Davin Gong*
2018 Lab rotation – CSF1R antagonism abolishes ischemic preconditioning mediated axonal protection in white matter

Ryan Dodge* 2015 Lab rotation – Ischemic preconditioning induced effects on microglial proliferation and gene expression

Josiah Hanson*
2014 Lab rotation – Cellular mechanisms of IgG and IgM dependent phagocytosis in microglia.

*Abstracts selected for Western State Student and Resident Medical Research Forum in Carmel, CA

UW Undergraduate Research Assistant Alumni

Amy Guo

Monique Samodien

Haneul Ryou
2021 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar

Nikhil Patel

Emma Lascar

Lisa Young

Ravneet Ranu

Rachel Arnold
2019 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar

Graham Stoddard

Vicki Wahlstrom

Jasmine Shen

Victoria Wahlstrom

Michael Ulate

Arianna Sayyadi

Stephanie Mizuno

Chloe Lee
2015 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar
2016 Levinson Emerging Scholar

Dallas Kramer

Alexa Erdogan

Hyoeun Kim

Zukhra Siddikova

Ryan Dodge

Erwin Odongo

Dorender Dankwa
2013 UW Mary Gates Scholar
2013 UW Intitiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) Undergraduate Research Scholarship

Thu Le

Michael Iorga

Khloe Frank

Katie Ho
2013 UW Mary Gates Scholar

James Strosnider

Cheryl Sung

Sam Sussman

Hunter Phillips
2012 UW Mary Gates Scholar

Heather Pemberton

Huy Hoang

Russell Ettinger

Matthew Zhang