Schedule

June 11, 2010

 

Time

Event

 

8:30 - 9:35

Continental breakfast and Registration

 

9:40 - 9:50

Greeting by Lanny Garth Close M.D., Chairman of OTO/HNS Department

No.

Time

Speaker

Title

Development and Regeneration: E. Bryan Crenshaw (Moderator)

1

9:50 - 10:05

Aminat Saliu

The development of hearing in rats: Contributions of middle- and inner-ear maturation

2

10:05 - 10:20

Sabrina W.Yum

Dominant and trans-dominant effects of Connexin26 mutants associated with human hearing loss

3

10:20-10:35

Jin Liang

Digital gene expression identifies the Stat3/Socs3 pathway as a key regulator of supporting cell division and hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish inner ear

 

10:35-10:50

Discussion

 

 

Hair cells: Joseph Santos-Sacchi (Moderator)

4

10:50 - 11:05

Felicia L. Smith

Cochlear hair cell micro-isolates regulate the soma size of spiral ganglion neurons

5

11:05 - 11:20

Adria C. LeBoeuf

Ion- and ionic-strength-dependent cohesion in the electrostatic glycocalyx of the hair bundle

6

11:20 - 11:35

Lei Song

Effect of chloride and membrane holding potential on OHCs: simultaneous measures of electromotility and nonlinear capacitance

 

11:35-11:50 

Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:50 - 1:30

Lunch, group photo and poster viewing

 

Neural Processing: Sarah Woolley (Moderator)

7

1:30-1:45

Louisa J. Steinberg

Enhanced spectrotemporal and envelope coding in the intensity pathway of the barn owl

8

1:45-2:00

David M. Schneider

Extra-classical receptive fields predict stimulus-dependent auditory tuning

9

2:00-2:15

Micha‘l C. C. Slama

Effects of reverberation on the neural coding of amplitude modulation: Dynamic aspects

 

2:15 - 2:30

Discussion

 

 

Cochlear Implants and Emissions: Wei Dong (Moderator)

10

2:30 - 2:45

Jian Zhang

Friction study on robotic insertions of outer-wall electrode arrays in cochlear implant surgery

11

2:45-3:00

Vanessa M. Cervantes

Development of hydrodynamic fluid-assisted injection method for cochlear implantation in gerbil

12

3:00-3:15

Simon Henin

Changes in distortion product otoacsoutic emission (DPOAE) phase during contralateral acoustic stimulation

13

3:15-3:30

Christopher Bergevin

Effects of size upon stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emission delays: A survey into the tiger ear

 

3:30- 3:45

Discussion

 

 

 

3:45 - 4:10

Coffee break

Keynote: Ruth Anne Eatock

14

4:15 - 5:15

Ruth Anne Eatock

From transduction to spiking in the vestibular inner ear

 

5:15 - 6:00 

More poster viewing, farewells