OHRC Speaker series past presentations

Marcel van der Heijden, Ph.D., Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam. "The cochlear traveling wave and its essential role in dynamic compression." On Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 4pm in the OHRC Conference Room 405.

Jian Zuo, Ph.D., Chairman and Professor, Creighton University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences. "Drug discovery for hearing loss." On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4pm in The Vollum M1441.

Byron Hartman Ph.D., Instructor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology. "Otic Sensory Lineage Development and Gene Regulation in Mice and Organoids." On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 11:00 am in Rm. SJH 4248.

Corné J Cross, M.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK will present a seminar entitled, "The hunt for otoprotective drug candidates: to fish or to trap?" On Thursday, February 9, 2017 @ 10:45 am in The Vollum M1441.

Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders; Joint appointment in Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Key factors contributing to spatial hearing abilities in bilateral cochlear implant users: Perception, auditory plasticity and listening effort" on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:30 pm in the Vollum M1441.

Jennifer Stone, Ph.D., Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery University of Washington-Seattle, "Keeping the balance: Maintenance and regeneration of vestibular hair cells in adult mice" Thursday, March 17, 2016 in the Vollum M1441.

Amir Lahav, Sc.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, "Auditory Brain Development in Preterm Infants: Challenges of the Current Hospital Environment," Tuesday, December 8, 2015 in the Vollum M1441.

Zheng-Yi Chen, D.Phil., Associate Professor, Eaton-Peabody, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye &Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School,  "Rebuild of mammalian inner ear in a dish,"  Friday November 13, 2015 at 3:00 pm in the Vollum M1441.

Santiago Jaramillo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Institute of Neuroscience and Dept of Biology University of Oregon, Eugene, "Neural pathways for auditory cognition in rodents,"  April 17, 2015 at 3:30 pm in the Vollum M1441.

The Vollum Institute and the Oregon Hearing Research Center co-hosted the following talks:

Sasa Jovanovic, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, University of Leipzig, Germany, "Purinergic modulation of developing central auditory circuits" Friday, February 27, 2015 at 2-3 pm in the Vollum M1441.

Didier Dulon, Ph.D., INSERM and the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux Neurocampus, "How does otoferlin control transmitter release at the hair cell ribbon synapse?"  Friday, February 26, 2016 at 2-3 pm in the Vollum M1441.

2023-2024 OHRC Journal Club

June 04, 2024 – Fred Nuttall, Director, OHRC: Brown, C., Nuttall, A., & Masta, R. (1983). Intracellular recordings from cochlear inner hair cells: effects of stimulation of the crossed olivocochlear efferents. Science, 222(4619) 69-72. doi: 10.1126/science.6623058.  

Dallos, P., Santos-Sacchi, J. and Flock, A. (1982). Intracellular recordings from cochlear outer hair cells. Science, 218(4572) 582-584.

May 28, 2024 – Laurence Trussell, Professor, OHRC: Shrestha, B., Wu, L., & Goodrich, L. (2023). Runx1 controls auditory sensory neuron diversity in mice. Developmental Cell, 58(4), 306-319.e5.

May 21, 2024 – John Brigande, Professor, OHRC: Xue, Y., et al. (2023). RNA base editing therapy cures hearing loss induced by OTOF gene mutation. Molecular Therapy, 31(12), 3520-3530.

May 14, 2024 – Paroma Chatterjee, Senior Research Associate, Barr-Gillespie Lab: Li, N., et al. (2023). Disruption of Cdh23 exon 68 splicing leads to progressive hearing loss in mice by affecting tip-link stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(10), e2309656121.

April 30, 2024 – Xiao Rui Shi, Professor, OHRC: Bizup, B., Brutsaert, S., Cunningham, C. L., Thathiah, A., & Tzounopoulos, T. (2024). Cochlear zinc signaling dysregulation is associated with noise-induced hearing loss, and zinc chelation enhances cochlear recovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(8), e2310561121. 

April 16, 2024 – Jarnail Singh, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine: Understanding the role of transcription factor Pou4f3 in the survival of mouse cochlear hair cells and the hearing function at different postnatal ages.

April 09, 2024 – George Burwood, Instructor, Nuttall Lab: Jeng, J. Y., Harasztosi, C., Carlton, A., et al. (2021). MET currents and otoacoustic emissions from mice with a detached tectorial membrane indicate the extracellular matrix regulates Ca2+ near stereocilia. The Journal of Physiology, 599(7), 2015–2036.

April 02, 2024 – Stephen David, Professor, OHRC: Audette, N., Schneider, D. (2023). Stimulus-Specific Prediction Error Neurons in Mouse Auditory Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(43), 7119-7129.

December 05, 2023 – Tenzin Ngodup, Post Doctoral Scholar, Trussell Lab: Siebald, Caroline, et al. (2023). Molecular signatures define subtypes of auditory afferents with distinct peripheral projection patterns and physiological properties.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(31), e2217033120.

November 30, 2023 – Santhosh Verghese, Senior Research Associate, Brigande Lab: Mathiesen, Barbara K., et al. (2023). Delivery of gene therapy through a cerebrospinal fluid conduit to rescue hearing in adult mice. Science Translational Medicine, 15(702), abq3916.

November 07, 2023 – Peter Barr-Gillespie, Chief Research Officer, OHRC: García-Añoveros, J., et al. (2022). Tbx2 is a master regulator of inner versus outer hair cell differentiation. Nature 605, 298-303.

Kaiser, M., et al. (2022). TBX2 specifies and maintains inner hair and supporting cell fate in the Organ of Corti. Nature Communications, 13(7628). 

October 24, 2023 – Tianying Ren, Professor, OHRC: Mecca, A., Caprara, G., & Peng, A. (2022). cAMP and voltage modulate rat auditory mechanotransduction by decreasing the stiffness of gating springs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(30): e2107567119.

October 17, 2023 – Héctor Rincon Iglesias, visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Salamanca: Kersbergen, C. J., Babola, T. A., Kanold, P. O., & Bergles, D. E. (2023). Preservation of developmental spontaneous activity enables early auditory system maturation in deaf mice. PLoS Biology, 21(6), e3002160.

October 03, 2023 – Satya Parida, Postdoc Scholar, David Lab: Sabesan, S., Fragner, A., et al. (2023). Large-scale electrophysiology and deep learning reveal distorted neural signal dynamics after hearing loss. eLife 12:e85108

September 26, 2023 – Lina Reiss, Professor, OHRC: Banno, T., Shirley, H., Fishman, Y., Cohen, Y. (2023). Changes in neural readout of response magnitude during auditory streaming do not correlate with behavioral choice in the auditory cortex. Cell Reports Preprint, 2023.113493. 

Northwest Auditory and Vestibular Research Meeting (NWAVRM)

2023 Northwest Auditory and Vestibular Research Meeting (NWAVRM)

The Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University will be hosting this year's Northwest Auditory and Vestibular Research Meeting (NWAVRM). The NWAVRM is a biennial meeting that brings together researchers across Oregon and Washington, with topics spanning mechanics, sensory transduction, and central neural processing of hearing and balance. The conference will be held at the McMenamin’s Edgefield Hotel and will run from October 19-20, 2023. 

This year’s conference showcases the latest research on the auditory and vestibular systems in the Pacific Northwest. We will highlight our community’s work in oral and poster presentations, with topics spanning mechanics, sensory transduction, and central processing of hearing and balance, as well as relevant clinical research. See NWAVRM Program.

Decibel Therapeutics

Please contact Angie Garinis or Stephen David if you have any questions.  We look forward to seeing you in October!

2016 Northwest Auditory and Vestibular Research Meeting (NWAVRM)

October 14-15, 2016 Portland, OR

Friday 12 pm - Saturday 1 pm, Vey Conference Center at Oregon Health and Science University

The Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University will be hosting this year's Northwest Auditory and Vestibular Research Meeting (NWAVRM). The NWAVRM is a biennial meeting that brings together researchers across Oregon and Washington, with topics spanning mechanics, sensory transduction, and central neural processing of hearing and balance. Note that this year the meeting has moved to a Friday-to-Saturday schedule.

Attendees are invited to present their research in posters (4 x 4 feet max. size) or brief talks (12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions). We especially encourage students and postdoctoral fellows to take advantage of this opportunity to engage with their neighbors. To this end, we have made a strong effort to keep registration costs low.

Keynote speakers and topics range from the auditory periphery: Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh (University of Washington), Tianying Ren (OHSU), Xiaorui Shi (OHSU), to vestibular/clinical: Timothy Hullar (OHSU) to the central auditory system and human perception: Michael Wehr (University of Oregon), Matthew Winn (University of Washington).  For more detail, see the meeting agenda.

Real-time captioning will be provided. In addition, assistive listening devices with neckloops or mono/stereo headphones will be available on request. 

Please forward this information to any colleagues who may be interested. Contact Stephen David or Lina Reiss if you have any questions.  We look forward to seeing you in October!