Mo Lab Staff

Alisa Mo, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator

Alisa Mo, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist interested in the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders. She is a Principal Investigator in the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, a pediatric neurologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Mo grew up in Texas. She went up north to complete her combined MD/PhD training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine followed by pediatric neurology residency and fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. She then performed postdoctoral research with Christopher A. Walsh at Boston Children's Hospital where she used new sequencing approaches to study somatic variants in the human brain.

Dr. Mo started her independent laboratory at Nationwide Children's Hospital in fall 2025.

Calissa Carlisle, MS
Research Assistant
Calissa.Carlisle@NationwideChildrens.org

Calissa Carlisle, MS, is a research assistant in the Mo Lab whose work focuses on computational biology to investigate somatic variants and their role in autism spectrum disorder. She earned her master's degree in microbiology through the BS/MS program hosted by the department of microbiology at the Ohio State University. Her thesis research used next-generation sequencing and computational approaches to identify novel metabolic pathways in non-model bacteria. She is now applying her computational and genomics skills to the study of human genetics, with a focus on understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders.