Sarah Pallas

Sarah L. Pallas is an American neuroscientist and a professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She started her own lab in 1992 at Baylor College of Medicine and moved to Georgia State University in 1997 along with her husband Paul Katz. Pallas was promoted to full professor in 2006 and was appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS).

As of 2019, Pallas is an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and runs her own lab studying neural development and plasticity in auditory and visual pathways. Her lab functions under the Neuroscience and Behavior Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Programs in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Biology Department.

Career In her scientific career, Sarah Pallas has worked on a variety of projects in understanding the mechanisms behind neural development and plasticity. Her prior work includes cross-modal plasticity of visual and auditory inputs in ferrets. In addition, Pallas has also worked on topographic map compression in the superior colliculus (SC). Most recently, Pallas received the Alumni Achievement Award in 2020 from her alma mater, University of Minnesota. Lastly, Pallas was awarded tenure in 2020 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.