Sarah Stednitz
Alumni of the Department Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems
Alumni of the Research Group Systems Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
Alumni of the Research Group Systems Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
Main Focus
As a behavioral
neuroscientist, I’m interested in understanding how behavior arises from
neuronal circuits. I am now working to leverage innate visual behaviors
and live neuronal imaging in the zebrafish to understand how single
cells in the brain act in concert to guide pre-attentive visual
behaviors.
Curriculum Vitae
I received my B.S. degrees in Biology and Psychology from Southern
Oregon University in 2011. I obtained my Masters in Psychology at
Humboldt State University in 2014, studying the behavioral and cellular
effects of L-DOPA in the lab of Ethan Gahtan. I received my PhD in 2019
from the University of Oregon in the lab of Philip Washbourne, where I
engineered a novel assay for social behavior in zebrafish and identified
an evolutionarily conserved population of cells required for normal
social interactions. In 2019, I joined the lab of Zhaoping Li to explore
visual attention and saliency using the zebrafish model system.