joined the Department of Biological Sciences as Assistant Professor in 2015. Her laboratory aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the establishment of neuronal connectivity during normal brain development and in the disease brain. Her group use human neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) obtained from patients with neurodevelopment disorders (i.e., autism, intellectual disability) as a model system.
email : lizarras@mailbox.sc.edu