Sofia Garcia-Hernandez

Sofia Garcia-Hernandez obtained her B.S. in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she started her training as a scientist. She continued her scientific career in the Institute of Cellular Physiology, at UNAM, where she studied the role of glutamate receptors in a model of proliferative retinopathy in vitro and earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. Sofia received postdoctoral training in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where she developed a model to study regeneration of primary auditory neurons in vitro. Later, she joined the Auditory Research Group at the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral associate, where she studied the role of AMPA receptors in auditory processing, startle reflex, plasticity and synaptic ultrastructure in the auditory brainstem. Before joining the GWNIC, Sofia worked as a professor of biochemistry in the National School of Biological Sciences at the National Polytechnical Institute of Mexico.

Publications

Garcia-Hernandez S* and Rubio ME. Role of GluA4 in the acoustic and tactile startle responses. Hearing Research 414: 108410 (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108410.

Garcia-Hernandez S, Abe M, Sakimura K, Rubio ME. Impaired auditory processing and al-tered structure of the endbulb of Held synapse in mice lacking the GluA3 subunit of AMPA receptors. Hearing Research. 344: 284-294 (2017).

García-Hernández S*, Potashner SJ and Morest DK. Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor 8 in neurite outgrowth from spiral ganglion neurons in vitro. Brain Res.1529: 39-45 (2013). *Corresponding author.

García S, López E, López-Colomé AM. Glutamate accelerates RPE cell proliferation through ERK1/2 activation via distinct receptor-specific mechanisms. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 104: 377 – 390 (2008).