#  Aurora Ferrell 

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**For me, home is:** Irvine, California

**Prior degree(s):** B.S. in Neuroscience + Creative Writing Minor @ UChicago

**Research experience before PiN:** I studied cerebellar Purkinje cells in Dr. Christian Hansel’s lab at UChicago. I worked on both a patch-clamp physiology project and a study comparing Purkinje cell morphology across primate evolution, which made me hope to study neuronal form/function relationships in grad school!

**Current research interests:** dendritic signaling, morphology/physiology relationships, behavioral impacts of cell & circuit plasticity

**Interests outside lab:** reading “with my ears” (I finished 92 audiobooks last year), running/ballet/weightlifting, accessible scientific communication, puzzles, trying new restaurants



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Entry year
    
     [2025-2026](/entry-year/2025-2026)
- ## People
    
     [Student](/people/student)