Hearing, Balance, and Chemical Senses Seminar Series
2006-2007
Unless stated otherwise, all meetings are at 3:45 pm Wednesdays in the Maxwell Conference Room, 4054 Kresge Hearing Research Institute. The seminar series organizer for Fall Semester 2006 are David Kohrman and Ewan Macpherson.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 6 | No seminar - first week of classes | ||
| September 13 | Colleen Le Prell, University of Michigan | Lateral olivocochlear neurons: their role in auditory function | Shore |
| September 20 | Ping Chen, Emory University School of Medicine | Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Shaping the Mammalian Auditory Sensory Organ | Kohrman |
| September 27 | Jeff Wenstrup, Northeastern Ohio Universities | Analysis of Complex Vocal Sounds: Neural Mechanisms and Modulation by Emotional Centers in the Brain | Shore |
| October 4 | Fred Wightman, Heuser Hearing Institute | Informational Masking of speech in adults and children | Macpherson |
| October 11 | James Ison, University of Rochester | Complex Auditory Processing in the Mouse, in Early Development and Near Senescence: A Behavioral Study | Dolan |
| October 18 | Daniel Eberl, University of Iowa | Myosin VIIA in Drosophilia Hearing | Kohrman |
| October 25 | No Seminar | Kohrman | |
| November 1 | David Kohrman, University of Michigan | The skinny on pirouette: mouse deafness mutations and stereocilia maturation | Lomax |
| November 8 | Kent Berridge, University of Michigan | Limbic Hedonic Hotspots Enhance Taste "Liking" | |
| November 15 | Thanos Tzounopoulos, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science |
Synaptic plasticity during early auditory processing | Shore |
| November 29 | Margaret Lomax, University of Michigan | Stress Pathways in Age-related Hearing Loss | Kohrman |
| December 6 | Min-Xin Guan, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
Nuclear modifier enes for maternally transmitted deafness | Lomax |
| December 13 | Andrew Griffith, NIDCD/NIH | Genetic approaches to understanding transmembrane channel-like gene 1 (TMC1) function in deafness and in health | Kohrman |
| December 20 | No seminar - Holiday Break | ||
| December 27 | No seminar - Holiday Break | ||
| January 3 | No seminar - Holiday Break | ||
| January 10 | Li Xu, Ohio University, School of Hearing and Speech Language Sciences | An Acoustic, Neural-Network, and Perceptual Study of Mandarin Chinese Tone Production in Cochlear Implant Children | Pfingst |
| January 17 | Michael King, University of Michigan, Department of Otolaryngology | Functional assessment of vestibular reflexes in mice and guinea pigs | Lomax |
| January 24 | Su-Hua Sha, University of Michigan, Kresge Hearing Research Institute | Stress Induced Signaling Pathways in the Inner Ear | Lomax |
| January 31 | Edgar Otto, University of Michigan, Department of Nephrology | Gene Identifications in Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome | Lesperance |
| February 7 | ARO Practice Talks | No Seminar | |
February 8 SPECIAL DAY |
David Moore, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK | Hearing but not listening: Causes and management of auditory processing disorder (APD) | LePrell |
| February 14 | ARO Meeting | No Seminar | |
| February 21 | Christine Byrd-Jacobs, Western Michigan University, Department of Biological Science | Plasticity in the Zebrafish Olfactory Bulb: Insights from a Model System | Bradley |
| February 28 | Quintin Pan, University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine | Role of PKCepsilon in head and neck cancer. | Carey |
| March 7 | Zheng-Yi Chen, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology | Mammalian Hair Cell Regeneration: When and How? | Gong |
| March 14 | Jian-Dong Li, University of Rochester Medical College | Regulation of Stress-induced Signaling Networks | Sha |
| March 21 | Lisa Goodrich, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology | Deaf and dizzy mice: a genetic dissection of inner ear patterning and wiring | Kohrman |
| March 28 | George Gates, University of Washington, Department of Otolaryngology | Alzheimer's disease and Central Auditory Function | Altschuler |
| April 4 | Marian Drescher, Wayne State University, Department of Otolaryngology | Adrenergic Innervation of the Organ of Corti | Lomax |
| April 11 | Jennifer Melcher, Eaton Peabody Labs, Harvard Medical School | Auditory Processing in human listeners as viewed with neuroimaging. | Shore |
SPECIAL SEMINAR April 16, Monday |
Pavan Kommareddi, Kresge Hearing Research Institute | Moleular Approaches to Hearing Research: A Personal Odyssey | Carey |
| April 18 | Neil Segil, House Ear Institute, Chief, Section on Cell Growth and Differentiation |
Coordinating cell cycle and differentiation during the development and regeneration of the inner ear. | Raphael |
| April 25 | Joseph Walton, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Otolaryngology Division and Neurobiology and Anatomy | Neural correlates of central auditory processing deficits in aging: evidence from the auditory midbrain | Dolan/Shore |
| SPECIAL SEMINAR DATE, April 27 | Marti Morales, M.S., New Mexico State University | Structural Differentiation of Mechanosensory Hair Cells During Inner Ear Development and Innervation: Emergence of Kinocilia and Synaptic Ribbons | Duncan |
| May 2 | Robert Raphael, Rice University, Bioengineering | Adventures in Membrane and Auditory Bioengineering: Some Things We've Learned about Intramolecular Interactions of Prestin and Potassium Transport in the Stria Vascularis | Grosh/Duncan |
| May 9 | Robin Davis, Rutgers University, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | Sensational neurotrophins: Shaping the spiral ganglion neuron phenotype by BDNF and NT-3 | Barald |
| May 16 | Dr. Jeremy Turner, Southern Illinois University | Reflex Audiometry as a Tool for Rapid Assessment of Hearing Loss and Tinnitus in Rodents | Shore |
