Victoria Abraira

Victoria Abraira is assistant professor of cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University. She earned her B.S. in biological sciences at the University of Southern California and her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Harvard University. As a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School, she set out to understand the cellular and synaptic substrates underlying innocuous touch perception by elucidating the functional organization of sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and uncovering the neural codes of touch perception in the spinal cord dorsal horn.