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Kresge Hearing Research Institute

Department of Otolaryngology

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David Kohrman, Ph.D.

Mouse models of inherited deafness; molecular genetics of the auditory and vestibular systems

Charlotte M. Mistretta, Ph.D.

  • Program Co-director
  • Professor, Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences
  • Professor, School of Dentistry
Developmental neurobiology of the taste system

Richard Altschuler, Ph.D.

Cellular biology of the inner ear, auditory neurotransmitters, and receptors; deafness-related changes and their prevention/reversibility

David Anderson, Ph.D.

Physiology of auditory and vestibular systems; development of multichannel neural recording and stimulation devices

Kate Barald, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Formation of the vertebrate inner ear: gene expression and early developmental events

Kent Berridge, Ph.D.

Affective neuroscience of taste pleasure

Robert Bradley, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry
  • Professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine
Mechanisms of taste function at the levels of the peripheral and central nervous system

Margit Burmeister, Ph.D.

  • Research Associate Professor, Mental Health Research Institute
  • Associate Professor, Human Genetics in Psychiatry
  • Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Molecular genetics of inner ear disorders in mouse models of deafness

Sally Camper, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Human Genetics
  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Associate Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program
Genetics of deafness

Thomas Carey, Ph.D.

Immunology and cell biology of the inner ear; cell biology and molecular biology of head and neck cancer

David Dolan, Ph.D.

Cochlear electrophysiology; function of the efferent system

R. Keith Duncan, Ph.D.

Physiology of sensory cells in the cochlea, from mechanotransduction to synaptic release

Tom Glaser

  • Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Developmental genetics of the auditory hindbrain in mice

Karl Grosh

Mathematical models for cochlear mechanics and electrophysiology

Michael King, Ph.D.

Sensory-motor transformations in the vestibulo-ocular reflex

Daryl Kipke

  • Assoicate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Marci Lesperance, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
  • associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  • Human Genetics Laboratory
Molecular genetics of hearing impairment

Margaret Lomax, Ph.D.

Molecular biology of the auditory system

Donna Martin, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics
Molecular genetics of developmental brain and ear disorders

Miriam Meisler, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Human Genetics
Molecular genetics of inner ear disorders in transgenic mice

Jeffrey Martens

  • Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
Olfactory signaling and function

John Middlebrooks, Ph.D.

Cortical neurophysiology and psychophysics of directional hearing and brain responses to cochlear implant stimulation

Josef Miller, Ph.D.

Encoding and representation of acoustic signals in the central auditory system; development of cochlear implants; cochlear microcirculation

Khalil Najafi, Ph.D.

Development of miniature implantable biomedical prostheses and micromachined multichannel neural recording electrodes

Christopher Nosrat, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Biologic and Material Science, School of Dentistry
Taste disorders

Bryan Pfingst, Ph.D.

Auditory prostheses; psychophysics; encoding of acoustic and electric signals

Yehoash Raphael, Ph.D.

Development, pathogenesis, and regeneration of the auditory system

Jochen Schacht, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and molecular biology of hearing and hearing disorders

Susan Shore, Ph.D.

Neural coding of complex sounds in cochlear nucleus neurons at the single cell level; function of pathways innervating the cochlear nucleus, including somatosensory; changes in pathways after deafness

Michal Zochowski

  • Assistant Professor, LS&A Physics Department
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Biophysics Research Division
Stimulus evoked spatio-temporal pattern formation in the olfactory bulb; computational/systems neuroscience