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Sarah J. Spencer

Sarah J. Spencer

BSc Hons, Ph.D –Neuroscientist

Sarah Spencer is a Professor of Neuroscience of RMIT University. She has around 16 years’ experience investigating the impact of the perinatal environment on brain and behaviour. She has a particular interest in the brain’s immune system and how it governs neurological function.

She completed her undergraduate in Physiology at Otago University in New Zealand and then a PhD in 2004 in Neuroscience at the University of Queensland. She followed this with a three-year postdoc at Calgary University in Canada, studying how exposure to immune challenges in critical programming windows of early life lead to long-term changes in immune regulation and the brain. She then moved back to Australia to Monash University and then RMIT University in Melbourne where she leads her team in the investigation of perinatal programming of long-term brain function.

Sarah has authored and co-authored around 100 scientific publications, including two translating primary scientific studies into articles for children. She is an Associate Editor of one of the top neuroscience journals, Brain Behavior and Immunity, and an Academic Advisory Board member for the Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation, promoting scientific research into this devastating childhood disease.

  • 9
    Dec

    Are WOmen smarter than woMEN?

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    By Sarah J. Spencer
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    Brain power  Women know we’re smarter than men. Men likely think the opposite. But what is the real story? Okay, ...
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    Dec

    Sugar; mice; and a predictable price 

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    By Sarah J. Spencer
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    Brain development changes in babies  A baby’s brain undergoes astounding remodelling in the first years of life. In the third ...
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    Sep

    Long COVID and family health

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    By Sarah J. Spencer
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    Of course, we are all solidly aware of SARS-CoV2 (the virus) and COVID-19 (the disease that it causes); a medical ...
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  • 3
    Sep

    Berries and the brain – food for thought!

    Family
    By Sarah J. Spencer
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    It seems like everyone these days is after a magic bullet in the form of a common yet delicious food ...
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