Auditory Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory
Andra E. Talaska
Research Technician Associate
Phone: (734) 764-5196
Fax: (734) 764-0014
E-mail: atalaska@umich.edu
Education
- B.S. Biochemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003
Hobbies
- Mountain Biking
- Running
- Playing the French Horn
- Musing about starting new hobbies like cooking, deep sea diving, and interpretive dancing
- Playing tennis and a host of other sports embarrassingly badly
Research Project
Recently my research has focused on age-related hearing-loss in vivo and using fibroblast cell cultures and developing an in vitro model for studying aminoglycoside-induced hearing-loss using a cell line derived from the organ of corti of the immortomouse (HEI-OC1). I am also working with a breeding colony of Akt knockout mice used for studying the effect of the Akt gene product on hearing-loss susceptibility and working on aminoglycoside and protectant in vivo studies.
