
LAB MEMBERS

Scott Whittemore, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman for Research
Department of Neurological Surgery, Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology
Henry D. and Marianna Garretson Endowed Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research
Scientific Director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center



Courtney Shepard, M.S.
Graduate Student, Translational Neuroscience
Middlebury College, University of Colorado Boulder
My project looks at the role of long propriospinal neurons in locomotion after SCI.

Brandon Brown, M.S.
Graduate Student, Translational Neuroscience
Indiana University
My research uses multi-viral systems to probe spinal cord anatomy.



Michael Forston, B.S.
Graduate Student, Anatomical Science and Neurobiology
Concordia College
I investigate the mechanisms of ER stress and autophagy during oligodendrocyte differentiation and their response to injury.

Ben Charpentier, B.S.
Graduate Student, Anatomical Science and Neurobiology
Bellarmine University
My research focuses on endotoxin and alcohol induced neuro-inflammation.
FORMER LAB MEMBERS
Post-Docs: Christopher Wilson, Qilin Cao, Gaby Enzmann, Richard Benton, Srikanth Rajagopalan, Jerry Xu, Andrew Bankston
Graduates: David Loy, Allison Ryan, Jason Talbott, Ahmed Abdellatif, Jason Beare, Rachel Hill, Janelle Fassbender, Nicholas Kuypers, Toros Dincman, Amanda Pocratsky