Our lab uses the inner ear as a model system to address fundamental questions in developmental biology and regeneration. The transformation of a simple piece of epithelium - the otic placode - into a ...

When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up ... When the team degraded the timing of the spikes in the simulated ear, however, their model could no longer match humans' ability ...

Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three separate small bones that transmit sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear ... uses zebrafish as a model organism for its ...