Current Members

Professor Sarah L. Pallas Principal Investigator and Lab Head

My research interest lies in understanding how sensory experience influences the development, plasticity, and evolution of the neural circuitry underlying sensory perception.  In addition, I am interested in mechanisms of recovery from traumatic brain injury.  My team uses a multilevel approach to these questions, including in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, gene and protein expression analysis, gene manipulation, and behavioral assays of sensory perception.  Outside of the lab, I am teaching neuroscience courses, serving on committees, serving as a reviewer of manuscripts and grant proposals, promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM, and influencing science and science education policy at the state and national level.

Dr. Pedro Fernandez Aburto Postdoctoral Associate

Pedro received his Ph.D. in the Biology of Cognition lab of Jorge Mpodozis and Juan-Carlos Letelier at Univ Chile-Santiago.  He completed a first postdoc with Camilo Libedinsky at the Natl Univ of Singapore. He is currently back in Chile conducting our research in collaboration with the Mpodozis/Letelier lab.