Lynde Wangler recently defended her PhD thesis titled "Disentangling complex and overlapping microglia profiles chronically after traumatic brain injury".

Lynde Wangler graduated with honors from UNC Chapel Hill in 2018 with a BS in Psychology and minors in Biology and Neuroscience. She then joined the lab of Dr. Peter Rapp at the National Institute on Aging for a two-year NIH post-baccalaureate training fellowship to study mechanisms of cognitive reserve in a rat model of normal aging. Lynde joined the Neuroscience Graduate Program at OSU in 2020 to study the neuroimmunology of aging and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Dr. Jonathan Godbout’s lab. Lynde’s dissertation work centers around the role of primed microglia in driving chronic inflammation and dysregulated immune reactivity in aging and after TBI. During her time at OSU, Lynde’s work was funded by a two-year University fellowship, an NINDS T32 Training grant in Neuroimmunology, and an NINDS NRSA F31 award. Lynde has presented her work at a number of local, national, and international conferences and received numerous presentation awards. She was also recognized as the NGP’s inaugural Excellence in Research award recipient (2025). In her time at OSU, she has published two first-author and seven co-authored papers. Additionally, she will publish a third first-author manuscript and at least 5 additional co-authored articles that are at various stages of preparation.