School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Full Title:	Dr Sarah Etherington
Degrees:	BSc Hons (Neuroscience) UWA, PhD, UWA
Current Position :	Lecturer in Physiology
Address:	Faculty of Health Sciences School of Veterinary Biology and Biomedical Science
Email:	s.etherington@murdoch.edu.au
Phone:	+61 8 9360 6708
Fax:	+61 8 310 4144
Room Number:	Veterinary Biology 2.042

RESEARCH SUMMARY: Sarah obtained her PhD in neurophysiology at The University of Western Australia in 2006 before completing a postdoctoral position at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Her research interest is the mechanisms regulating the strength of synaptic connections in the nervous system. Recent work has focused on the early postnatal development of signalling at synapses in mammalian visual cortex, with the aim of understanding how the developing brain processes visual information. Techniques include optical monitoring of synaptic vesicle recycling with fluorescent dyes and multi-site patch clamp recording.
Broad Research Interests (Keywords): Synaptic transmission Synaptic plasticity Visual cortex Neuromuscular junction Patch clamp electrophysiology