Our Team
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Fellow
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
LESLEY CHABOUB PhD
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Lesley completed her PhD at Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 where she studied astrocyte development. She identified novel genes expressed in astrocytes through a temporal profiling screen, and went on to study their functions in development and disease, especially multiple sclerosis and hypoxic injury patients. She joined The Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2017 where she is interested in studying the biology of the myelin sheath in health and regeneration after injuries. She has experience in genetics, cellular and molecular biology and several injury models. She loves traveling and reading books when she has time for it. But lately, in her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and 3 babies (2 human babies and 1 furry baby).
VISITING AND ROTATING RESEARCHERS:
Robert Scranton, MD
Neurosurgeon, Neurological Surgery, Goodman Campbell Brain & Spine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Sean Barber, MD
Junior Attending Complex Spine Fellow, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Meng Huang, MD
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Virendra Desai, MD
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Zain Boghani, MD
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
William Steele, MD
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Caio Quini, PhD
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Sao Paulo State Univeristy, Sao Paulo, BRA
Cassandra Baker
Undergraduate Research Fellow, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Amanda Altenhofen
Summer Intern 2016, 2017, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
Pranav Gadangi
Summer Intern 2016, Texas A&m University, College Station, TX, USA
Roberto Alcazar Felix
MD/PhD Rotation Student 2016, Tecnologico De Monterrey, Monterrey, MEX
Jocelyn Nikita Campa
MD/PhD Rotation Student 2017, Tecnologico De Monterrey, Monterrey, MEX
Dixita Viswanath
MD/PhD Rotation Student 2016, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Jonny Cummock
MD/PhD Rotation Student 2016, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Drew Levy
Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer Intern 2017, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
John Boom
Summer Intern 2017, St. John's School, Houston, TX, USA
The Horner Lab MVPs:
Don Maris
Laboratory & Operations Manager, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Berit Powers, PhD
Assistant Director, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Drew Sellers, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Denise Inman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University Foundation, Rootstown, OH, USA
Bryan White, PhD
Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA, USA
Jurate Lasiene, PhD
Project Manager, PSI CRO UK Ltd, Oxford, GBR
Laura Horky, MD
Nuclear Medicine Physician, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
Wendi Lambert, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA