Randall Carpenter, PhD

Dr. Randall Carpenter is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Maryanovich Lab. Randall graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2009 with a B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Music, and minor in Neuroscience. After graduation he worked as a technician in the lab of Dr. Agnieszka Ardelt at the University of Chicago, and entered the Neuroscience Graduate Program at The Ohio State University in 2013. Randall's Ph.D. training, in the lab of Dr. Phillip Popovich, was on the neuro-immune consequences of spinal cord injury. He implemented "humanized" mouse models to study the human immune response to injury, and also discovered that spinal cord injury causes a chronic bone marrow failure syndrome marked by impaired hematopoietic stem cell function and mobilization. Randall started his postdoc in the lab of Dr. Paul Frenette in 2019 and joined the Maryanovich lab in the summer of 2022. His research focuses on the circadian regulation of hematopoietic progenitors by the sympathetic nervous system.