Developmental Brain Research

Professor Sandra Rees - Honorary Professorial Fellow Phone: 61-0421677952 Fax: 61-3-9347 5219 Email: s.rees@unimelb.edu.au

Sandra Rees is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the University of Melbourne. She joined the academic staff at this University in 1992 after holding research positions in the Department of Physiology, Monash University for over 20 years. She retiured from the academic staff in 2009, but still keeps an interest in research as a consultant and is actively involved in writing papers and reviews.

Research Interests

The central theme of her research has been the combined study of structure and function of the central nervous system and she has made original contributions to the study of the development of motor and sensory systems in the fetus and factors affecting fetal brain development.

Myelination (Black Gold staining) in the cerebellum of the primate brain.