The ARO Membership Committee is revamping the Member Spotlight program to better highlight the incredible work of our members. While we're working on some exciting updates, we want to let you know that this initiative will be back soon, with more opportunities to showcase your contributions to the field! Stay tuned for more details and how you can get involved.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t wait to celebrate you and your work!<\/p>\n
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SPOTLIGHT PROFILES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=\"Eric LePage, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" toggle_icon=\"||divi||400\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.27.4\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n
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<\/strong><\/p>\nSelf-employed, full <\/strong>time, Perth, Australia, library support from University of Western Australia <\/strong><\/p>\nHow long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Since 1982, the year after I came to Wash U in
St.Louis for my post-doc on an RO1 obtained by Kim and Molnar. In 1982 Hal Davis at CID invited me as co-author for his \"cochlear amplifier\" paper. Fatefully, I had already decided my explanation must be centered upon basilar membrane baseline shifts.<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?\u00a0 <\/strong>Access to the very latest thoughts on cochlear mechanisms and the challenges they present.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhere has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been?<\/strong> St. Pete Beach, sometimes going to Crabby Bill's to eat fish and chips.<\/p>\nShare one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> Watching Ake Flock receive his award after showing a video of outer hair cells dancing in response to music of The Beatles.<\/p>\nTell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts. <\/strong>My two outputs in the last 12 months are:
1) Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, held at Helsingor, Denmark, July 2022.
LePage (2022): Digitization and Reanalysis of Fiber-optic Displacement Data: An Elephant in the
Chamber? (A talk with video showing rapid micrometer BM displacements in response to tone
bursts).
2) Prosper Meniere Society Meeting, Zell am Ziller, Austria, March 2023.
LePage (2023): Towards a holistic model for hydrodynamic pressure regulation in the mammalian cochlea -- clues from summating basilar membrane responses to sound plus micropuncture pressure experiments. Since 2007 I have been testing my hypothesis (MoH2011) that the endolymphatic duct, lined by tight-junctions, is a highly-controlled pressure vessel. There seems much scope for an aquaporin-based model to fulfill the failed objectives of the cochlear amplifier, basically functioning as a long-documented low-frequency bias effect (LePage, 1987, 2022). Only after suspecting Nature's nasty trick, I have succeeded in measuring hydrostatic pressures inside the cochlear chambers of Mongolian Gerbils. The pressures may be large (at least five times systolic pressure). The results fulfill my 1987 prediction and also have the potential explain clinical problems like perilymphatic fistulas and dehiscences. Many thanks to Paul Avan, Hero Wit and Pim van Dijk for early support.<\/p>\nAside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I enjoy my four sons and their families, including three grandchildren. I am still active in music making and walk the large local reserve and swim 2km per week.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Adele Moatti, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n
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North Carolina State
Universit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/strong><\/p>\nHow long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> 5 months<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?\u00a0 <\/strong>The frequency of on-line seminars by experts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nTell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts. <\/strong>My previous research was in the areas of advanced imaging and technology development to characterize the characteristics and development of porcine cochlea that reside deep in the bone by developing a bone-clearing method, working with a custom light-sheet microscope, and analyzing big datasets (Moatti et al. 2020; 2022). Using these techniques, I established the pig as a suitable animal model to study hearing loss. I have also developed a porcine ex-vivo platform to test drug delivery effectiveness to the inner ear (Moatti et al. under revision). To that end, I have isolated extracellular vesicles from the inner ear cells and proposed their application as drug carriers to improve the safe delivery to the inner ear (NIDCD K99-R00 award). In the future, my research will focus on: (i) Engineering techniques to improve biologics\/therapeutics delivery. (ii) Advancement of smart therapeutics to respond to environmental stimuli. (iii) Translational applications, particularly in hearing loss, aging, and tissue engineering. (iv) Utilizing imaging systems and algorithms to image deeper into tissue and to characterize disease states and the bio-distribution of drugs and biologics in the entire organ.<\/p>\nAside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I teach Yoga!<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Deniz Ba\u015fkent, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n
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University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, dB SPL Lab, Groningen, The Netherlands <\/strong><\/p>\nHow long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Must be since 1999, when my PhD advisor Bob
Shannon let me go to my very first conference!<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?<\/strong> Seeing old colleagues and friends, and meeting new colleagues and friends, getting inspiration from exciting science discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhere has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? St. Petersburg Beach, San Diego, Baltimore, and also New Orleans. Every organisation was great, and lucky for me I have best friends I can visit at each of these locations.<\/p>\nShare one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> Several:
My first poster presentation. I had stumbled on a great study in my PhD Lab at House Ear Institute, and apparently I presented the poster for 8 hours non-stop talking.
The parties Bob Shannon organised, great opportunity to catch up with everyone.<\/p>\nTell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> My background is in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering but I work at the Medical Faculty of our university, in close collaboration with our clinical stuff as well as colleagues from the Linguistics and Psychology Faculties of our university. This is very fitting as I find it difficult to work on one area only, there is just so much to learn and find out. Also my heart lies in practical applications, the motivation always remains in if we can find something that can children and adults with hearing loss. As a result, we run a number of projects in parallel in our lab.<\/p>\nCurrently, we are investigating how children with hearing devices perceive voices, voice emotions,
and also speech in noise. We want to identify potential difficulties and, if possible, also work with
device manufacturers to produce solutions. In adults, we are investigating voice perception, since
implanted adults report great difficulties here. We investigate how perception of voices may vary
with linguistic content, with device processing, but also with musicianship or other relevant
experience. We also continually investigate new ways of providing perceptual training, for example, using music training via learning to play piano or using humanoid robots.<\/p>\n
Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? Like being involved also outside research, have been in teaching and advisory committees, and currently also starting a new robotics program for healthcare. Outside university, singing, dancing, swimming, and coffee and friends are a must too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/strong><\/p>\nUniversity of Kentucky, Department of Physiology, <\/strong>Frolenkov Lab, Lexington KY<\/strong><\/p>\nHow long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Since 2018<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about being an ARO member? <\/strong>Networking and sharing ideas with fellow scientists.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\nWhere has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? Baltomore!<\/p>\nTell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> My work focuses on
understanding the mechano-electrical transduction processes of auditory hair cells. Utilizingwhole-cell patch clamp recordings allows me to measure many characteristics of the transduction currents. In the Frolenkov lab, we use various strains of mice with mutations in auditory proteins that cause deafness in humans to explore how the mutations lead to deafness. Additionally, these strains allow us to figure out how certain proteins may function normally in the mammalian
auditory system<\/p>\nAside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? Painting, traveling, and hunting!\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh\u00a0 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PI of the Area41 lab <\/strong><\/p>\nHow long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> 7 years as a PI, and before that, a couple of years as a graduate student<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about being an ARO member? <\/strong>It's a great forum to interact with the auditory neuroscience community. The mid-winter meeting is fantastic.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhere has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? San Diego, CA! I attended my first US scientific conference in San Diego , so I have some extra fondness for that city.<\/p>\nShare one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> The Award of Merit lecture by Dr. Alan Palmer in 2017. I had switched animal models to guinea pigs as a PI, in part inspired by Dr. Palmer's work. It was a treat to see him describe his studies in detail, and at a personal level, the talk gave me the confidence that I had made a good choice!<\/p>\nTell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> Our lab studies fundamental
cortical mechanisms underlying the processing of complex sounds, in particular, conspecific
vocalizations. We use computational, behavioral, and electrophysiological methods to address this
question in a guinea pig animal model. Going forward, we hope to use vocalization-driven behavior as a window into social cognition.<\/p>\nAside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I am a spARO mentor. I have co-organized an ARO mini-symposium in the past, and hope to do so again soon!<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nSelf-employed, full <\/strong>time, Perth, Australia, library support from University of Western Australia <\/strong><\/p>\n How long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Since 1982, the year after I came to Wash U in What do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?\u00a0 <\/strong>Access to the very latest thoughts on cochlear mechanisms and the challenges they present.<\/strong><\/p>\n Where has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been?<\/strong> St. Pete Beach, sometimes going to Crabby Bill's to eat fish and chips.<\/p>\n Share one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> Watching Ake Flock receive his award after showing a video of outer hair cells dancing in response to music of The Beatles.<\/p>\n Tell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts. <\/strong>My two outputs in the last 12 months are: Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I enjoy my four sons and their families, including three grandchildren. I am still active in music making and walk the large local reserve and swim 2km per week.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Adele Moatti, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n How long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> 5 months<\/p>\n What do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?\u00a0 <\/strong>The frequency of on-line seminars by experts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts. <\/strong>My previous research was in the areas of advanced imaging and technology development to characterize the characteristics and development of porcine cochlea that reside deep in the bone by developing a bone-clearing method, working with a custom light-sheet microscope, and analyzing big datasets (Moatti et al. 2020; 2022). Using these techniques, I established the pig as a suitable animal model to study hearing loss. I have also developed a porcine ex-vivo platform to test drug delivery effectiveness to the inner ear (Moatti et al. under revision). To that end, I have isolated extracellular vesicles from the inner ear cells and proposed their application as drug carriers to improve the safe delivery to the inner ear (NIDCD K99-R00 award). In the future, my research will focus on: (i) Engineering techniques to improve biologics\/therapeutics delivery. (ii) Advancement of smart therapeutics to respond to environmental stimuli. (iii) Translational applications, particularly in hearing loss, aging, and tissue engineering. (iv) Utilizing imaging systems and algorithms to image deeper into tissue and to characterize disease states and the bio-distribution of drugs and biologics in the entire organ.<\/p>\n Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I teach Yoga!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Deniz Ba\u015fkent, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n How long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Must be since 1999, when my PhD advisor Bob What do you enjoy most about being an ARO member?<\/strong> Seeing old colleagues and friends, and meeting new colleagues and friends, getting inspiration from exciting science discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n Where has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? St. Petersburg Beach, San Diego, Baltimore, and also New Orleans. Every organisation was great, and lucky for me I have best friends I can visit at each of these locations.<\/p>\n Share one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> Several: Tell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> My background is in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering but I work at the Medical Faculty of our university, in close collaboration with our clinical stuff as well as colleagues from the Linguistics and Psychology Faculties of our university. This is very fitting as I find it difficult to work on one area only, there is just so much to learn and find out. Also my heart lies in practical applications, the motivation always remains in if we can find something that can children and adults with hearing loss. As a result, we run a number of projects in parallel in our lab.<\/p>\n Currently, we are investigating how children with hearing devices perceive voices, voice emotions, Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? Like being involved also outside research, have been in teaching and advisory committees, and currently also starting a new robotics program for healthcare. Outside university, singing, dancing, swimming, and coffee and friends are a must too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Abigail Dragich\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n University of Kentucky, Department of Physiology, <\/strong>Frolenkov Lab, Lexington KY<\/strong><\/p>\n How long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> Since 2018<\/p>\n What do you enjoy most about being an ARO member? <\/strong>Networking and sharing ideas with fellow scientists.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Where has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? Baltomore!<\/p>\n Tell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> My work focuses on Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? Painting, traveling, and hunting!\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=\"Srivatsun Sadagopan, Ph.D.\" open_toggle_text_color=\"#093049\" open_icon_color=\"#FAA82A\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_text_color=\"#093049\" title_font=\"|700|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"18px\" body_font_size=\"16px\" border_width_top=\"9px\" border_color_top=\"#C9BDEF\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"post_content\"]<\/p>\n How long have you been an ARO member?<\/strong> 7 years as a PI, and before that, a couple of years as a graduate student<\/p>\n What do you enjoy most about being an ARO member? <\/strong>It's a great forum to interact with the auditory neuroscience community. The mid-winter meeting is fantastic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Where has your favorite MidWinter Meeting (MWM) been<\/strong>? San Diego, CA! I attended my first US scientific conference in San Diego , so I have some extra fondness for that city.<\/p>\n Share one memorable experience from a past ARO MWM.<\/strong> The Award of Merit lecture by Dr. Alan Palmer in 2017. I had switched animal models to guinea pigs as a PI, in part inspired by Dr. Palmer's work. It was a treat to see him describe his studies in detail, and at a personal level, the talk gave me the confidence that I had made a good choice!<\/p>\n Tell us about your work, with a focus on research efforts.<\/strong> Our lab studies fundamental Aside from research, what other activities do you participate in<\/strong>? I am a spARO mentor. I have co-organized an ARO mini-symposium in the past, and hope to do so again soon!<\/p>\n
St.Louis for my post-doc on an RO1 obtained by Kim and Molnar. In 1982 Hal Davis at CID invited me as co-author for his \"cochlear amplifier\" paper. Fatefully, I had already decided my explanation must be centered upon basilar membrane baseline shifts.<\/p>\n
1) Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, held at Helsingor, Denmark, July 2022.
LePage (2022): Digitization and Reanalysis of Fiber-optic Displacement Data: An Elephant in the
Chamber? (A talk with video showing rapid micrometer BM displacements in response to tone
bursts).
2) Prosper Meniere Society Meeting, Zell am Ziller, Austria, March 2023.
LePage (2023): Towards a holistic model for hydrodynamic pressure regulation in the mammalian cochlea -- clues from summating basilar membrane responses to sound plus micropuncture pressure experiments. Since 2007 I have been testing my hypothesis (MoH2011) that the endolymphatic duct, lined by tight-junctions, is a highly-controlled pressure vessel. There seems much scope for an aquaporin-based model to fulfill the failed objectives of the cochlear amplifier, basically functioning as a long-documented low-frequency bias effect (LePage, 1987, 2022). Only after suspecting Nature's nasty trick, I have succeeded in measuring hydrostatic pressures inside the cochlear chambers of Mongolian Gerbils. The pressures may be large (at least five times systolic pressure). The results fulfill my 1987 prediction and also have the potential explain clinical problems like perilymphatic fistulas and dehiscences. Many thanks to Paul Avan, Hero Wit and Pim van Dijk for early support.<\/p>\nNorth Carolina State
Universit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/strong><\/p>\nUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, dB SPL Lab, Groningen, The Netherlands <\/strong><\/p>\n
Shannon let me go to my very first conference!<\/p>\n
My first poster presentation. I had stumbled on a great study in my PhD Lab at House Ear Institute, and apparently I presented the poster for 8 hours non-stop talking.
The parties Bob Shannon organised, great opportunity to catch up with everyone.<\/p>\n
and also speech in noise. We want to identify potential difficulties and, if possible, also work with
device manufacturers to produce solutions. In adults, we are investigating voice perception, since
implanted adults report great difficulties here. We investigate how perception of voices may vary
with linguistic content, with device processing, but also with musicianship or other relevant
experience. We also continually investigate new ways of providing perceptual training, for example, using music training via learning to play piano or using humanoid robots.<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
understanding the mechano-electrical transduction processes of auditory hair cells. Utilizingwhole-cell patch clamp recordings allows me to measure many characteristics of the transduction currents. In the Frolenkov lab, we use various strains of mice with mutations in auditory proteins that cause deafness in humans to explore how the mutations lead to deafness. Additionally, these strains allow us to figure out how certain proteins may function normally in the mammalian
auditory system<\/p>\nDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh\u00a0 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PI of the Area41 lab <\/strong><\/p>\n
cortical mechanisms underlying the processing of complex sounds, in particular, conspecific
vocalizations. We use computational, behavioral, and electrophysiological methods to address this
question in a guinea pig animal model. Going forward, we hope to use vocalization-driven behavior as a window into social cognition.<\/p>\n