NTRIPS

1/8/2021
Katy Lenz, PhD | Associate Professor | Psychology
Early life traumatic injury: sex differences, immune cells, and neurobehavioral outcomes across the lifespan

2/12/2021
Zoe Tapp | Graduate Research Fellow | Neuroscience | Kokiko-Cochran/Godbout Labs
Sleep fragmentation after TBI enhances inflammation and neuronal circuitry deficits

2/26/2021
Jeff Wing, PhD | Assistant Professor | Epidemiology      
Geographic Patterning of Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias: Where We Live Matters

3/12/2021         
Jaclyn Caccese, PhD | Assistant Professor | Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Concussion and Subsequent Risk of Injury: Are some athletes returned prematurely?

3/26/2021
D. Michele Basso, PhD | Professor | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
It’s a Wrap: Myelin plasticity, inflammatory microenvironments & recovery after SCI

4/2/2021
Phillip Popovich, PhD | Professor & Chair | Neuroscience 
Spinal Cord Injury Causes an Acquired Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome

4/9/2021
Julianna Nemeth, PhD | Assistant Professor | Health Behavior & Health Promotion
Chronic brain injury caused by interpersonal violence: a mechanism fueling health disparities?

4/23/2021
John Lannutti, PhD | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering
Andrea Tedeschi, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Counteracting Maladaptive Plasticity And Chronic Neurodegeneration Following Brain And Spinal Cord Injury Using A “Smart” Drug Delivery System (SDDS)

5/7/2021
Elizabeth Newell, MD | Assistant Professor | University of Iowa
Targeting the neuroimmune response following traumatic brain injury

5/21/2021
Shahid Nimjee, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Neurological Surgery
Acute Ischemic Stroke: Challenges and Opportunity

5/28/2021
Cole Vonder Haar, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Increased risky decision-making and impulsivity in rats after TBI: A potential role for the gut microbiome

6/4/2021            
Yousef Hannawi, MD | Associate Professor | Neurology
Mechanisms of hypertension induced cerebral small vessel disease

6/18/2021
Andrew Sas, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neurology 
Neutrophil mediated axon regeneration

7/9/2021
W. Dave Arnold, MD | Assistant Professor | Neurology
Exploring Neuromuscular Responses to Central Nervous System Injury and Stress

8/13/2021         
Wenjing Sun, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Leaky wiring of the brain: analysis of the action range of glutamate in health and disease

8/27/2021
Giles Plant, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience
Human Pluripotent Derived Neuronal Lineages: from Specification to Transplantation in the Cervical Spinal Cord

9/10/2021
Emre Ertin, PhD | Associate Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering
A New Direction for Biosensing: RF Imaging of internal tissue profiles

9/17/2021
Jennifer Bogner, PhD, ABPP, FACRM | Professor | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 
TBI Model Systems: Overview at the Local and National Levels

9/24/2021
Kris Martens, PhD | Clinical Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Repeat closed-head injury using CHIMERA impairs attention and increases impulsivity in rats

10/8/2021
Kerry Ann Mitchell , MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroplastic Surgery
Neuroplastic Surgery: Improving Cranial Reconstruction Outcomes Innovation and Multidisciplinary Collaboration

10/22/2021       
Hiroki Taniguchi, PhD | Professor | Pathology | 
The wiring mechanisms of a cortical interneuron subtype

11/12/2021       
Eric Sribnick, MD, PhD | Pediatric Neurosurgery | Nationwide Children’s Hospital
TBI Polytrauma: Impact on Systemic Immune Response

11/19/2021
John Corrigan, PhD | Professor Emeritus | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
The Public Health Burden of Traumatic Brain Injury

12/10/2021
Paco Herson, PhD | Professor | Neurological Surgery
Novel target and lead compound to improve cognitive deficits after moderate traumatic brain injury

1/14/2022         
Josh Hagen, PhD | Director | Human Performance Collaborative
Human Performance Monitoring and Augmentation:  Applications for Holistic Health and Wellness

1/21/2022
Dana McTigue, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience
Formation of a pathological spinal cord-liver axis impairs recovery after spinal cord injury

1/28/2022
SURF Trainee Showcase 

Akshaykumar Ganesh | Schwab Lab | Neurology | 
Modeling Metabolic Syndrome following Spinal Cord Injury in Rodent Models of SCI 

Tony Han | Kiourti Lab | Electrical & Computer Engineering | 
Denoising E-Textile Sensors for Real-World Kinematics Monitoring after mTBI

Brooke Schatz | Lenz Lab | Psychology | 
The Role of Mast Cells in the Cognitive and Inflammatory Consequences Following Juvenile Traumatic Brain Injury                  

2/11/2022
Luke Lemmerman | BME PhD Candidate | Gallego-Perez Lab
Nanotransfection-based vasculogenic cell reprogramming drives functional recovery in a mouse model of ischemic stroke

2/25/2022
Laurence Coutellier, PhD | Associate Professor | Psychology
Effects of adolescent traumatic brain injury on the maturation of executive functions and modulation by social stress

3/25/2022         
Min Zhou, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Neuroscience
Energy demand of astrocyte network in healthy brain and cerebral ischemia

4/8/2022
Katy Lenz, PhD | Associate Professor | Psychology 
Early life traumatic injury: sex differences, immune cells, and neurobehavioral outcomes across the lifespan

4/22/2022
Sean Rose, MD | Assistant Professor | Neurology
Kelly McNally, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics
Zeynep Saygin, PhD | Assistant Professor | Psychology
Effectiveness of a psychological intervention for children with post-concussion syndrome

5/13/2022
Christina Roup, PhD | Associate Professor | Speech & Hearing Sciences
Hearing Difficulties and Effortful Listening Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults

5/27/2022
Jingzhen Ginger Yang, PhD, MPH | Professor | Epidemiology | Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Trajectory of Salivary miRNA Expressions in Children with Concussion

6/3/10/2022     
Jon Godbout, PhD | Professor | Neuroscience
Jonathan Packer | Godbout Lab 
Traumatic Brain Injury Induced Chronic Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment is Attenuated by Inhibition of the Type 1 Interferon Pathway 

8/26/2022         
Jaclyn Caccese, PhD | Assistant Professor | Health & Rehabilitation Sciences 
Zeynep Saygin, PhD | Assistant Professor | Psychology
Understanding the neurodevelopmental effects of football-related neurotrauma across first year of tackle football participation

9/9/2022            
Katie Quatman-Yates, PhD, PT | Associate Professor | Health & Rehabilitation Sciences 
Empowering Survivors of Chronic Brain Injury to be Physically Literate and Active for All Years (CBI-PLAAY)

9/23/2022          
Jinghua Li, PhD | Assistant Professor | Materials Science & Engineering 
A multi-functional electronic tattoo for spasticity tracking and management in severe TBI patients 

9/30/2022         
Jan Schwab, MD, PhD | Professor | Neurology
Maladaptive immune syndromes after spinal cord injury

10/14/2022       
Benedetta Leuner, PhD | Associate Professor | Psychology
Reproductive Experience and Traumatic Brain Injury in Females

10/28/2022       
Jie Gao, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Junmei Wang, PhD  | University of Pittsburgh
The discovery of tau aggregation inhibitors by molecular simulation and experimental verification

11/18/2022       
Asimina Kiourti, PhD | Assistant Professor | Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ginger Yang, PhD | Professor | Epidemiology | Nationwide Children’s Hospital|
Measuring Cognitive Activity Workload in Children with Concussion

12/9/2022         
Harry Fu, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Cerebral organoids with the MAPT R406W mutation model lipid dyshomeostasis, increased tau phosphorylation, and effects on neuronal function observed in FTD

12/16/22
CBI Special Seminar
Sourav Chandra, PhD | Northwestern University 
Novel tattoo electrode for HighDensity surface Electromyography

1/10/2025
Elisabetta Babetto, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Neurology
Should I stay or Should I grow? An axon’s quest for survival

1/24/2025
Matthew P. Brancaleone, DPT, PhD, AT | AssistantProfessor | Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Investigating Concussion Baseline Performance in Athletes who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

2/14/2025
Jeffrey Wing, PhD | Assistant Professor | Epidemiology
Impact of broadband availability on the estimation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

2/28/2025
Ilaria Palmisano, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
RoleS of cohesin in axon regeneration after injury

3/14/2025
Cole Vonder Haar, PhD | Associate Professor | Neuroscience
A role for the gut microbiome in psychiatric symptoms after TBI

4/11/2025    
Lee Shapiro, PhD | Associate Professor | Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics | Texas A&M Univeristy
Sex differences in immune and neuroimmune mechanisms of post-traumatic syndromes

4/25/2025    
Ashley Ingiosi, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
Astrocytes play a starring role in sleep expression and homeostasis

5/9/2025    
Yousef Hannawi, MD| Associate Professor | Neurology
Hypertension induced Cerebrovascular Dysfunction: Therapeutic implications to Improving Brain Health and Cognition

5/23/2025    
Morgan Taylor, PhD| Postdoctoral Scholar | Neuroscience
Extracellular vesicle-based microglial reprogramming in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury

6/13/2025    
Lin Du, PhD| Assistant Professor | Department of Neurological Surgery | Department of Biomedical Engineering
Multiscale biomedical systems to achieve health monitoring: integrate top-down lithography and bottom-up self-assembly nanotechnology