Sarah Mikula

Sarah Mikula received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Oregon. Having strong interests in blending biology and psychology, she has moved on to manage two neuroscience labs at the University of California, Davis.

Sarah began writing when she was fifteen, publishing articles in a newsletter called Getting Ready for at-risk youth. She wrote on topics as varying from balancing a checkbook to effective budgeting skills. Since moving to California her interest in writing has grown and she has written for websites including Helium and 1H2O, where she won a recent award for an article on the effects of droughts in California and Argentina.

She has also written articles for Real Estate Experts on how the housing markets in Davis, CA and Portland, OR have been affected by the recession.

As a neuroscientist, her main publication record is in scientific journals. Recently, she co-authored a research article with her husband, Dr. Shawn Mikula, on three dimensional reconstruction of striosomes, unique and poorly understood structures in the brain.

Complete 3-D visualization of primate striosomes by KChIP1 immunostaining, Shawn Mikula, Sarah K. Parrish, James S. Trimmer, Edward G. Jones,The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Published Online: Mar 20 2009

Beginning in July of 2009, Sarah will take up residence in Heidelberg, Germany to continue her career as a neuroscientist.

Her list of publications (some of which are under her maiden last name of "Sarah Parrish") includes:

MacArthur CJ, Hefeneider SH, McCoy SL, Parrish SK, Kempton JB, Trune DR., Development of the C3H/HeJ Mouse Model for the Study of Spontaneous Chronic Otitis Media and Its Impact on the Inner Ear. Poster, ARO, February 20th, 2005

Trune D, Kempton JB, Parrish SK, Hefeneider SH., Glucocorticoids Restore Autoimmune Hearing Loss Through the Mineralocorticoid Receptor. Poster, ARO, February 20th, 2005

MacArthur CJ, Hefeneider SH, Kempton JB, Parrish SK, McCoy SL, Trune DR., Evaluation of the mouse model for acute otitis media. Hear Res. 2006 Sep;219(1-2):12-23