Lab Members
Faculty
Principal Investigator
Jonathan R. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Adjunct Associate 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)
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
Visiting Scientists
Sibylle Hodecker, MD
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Amy Guo
Emily Verran
Monique Samodien
UW Collaborators
Suman Jayadev
Associate 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
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
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