The UCL Ear Institute will be well represented again at this year's ARO conference in San Diego! Here's a pretty complete list of who will be doing what and when!
We would like to give a special mention to Prof Andy Forge who is an International Committee member this year!
Sat 20 Feb
Podium
1:30 PD 3
Antagonistic Interactions Between Notch and Lmx1Regulate Sensory Patch Segregation in the Embryonic Inner Ear
Hector Galvez-Garcia; David Pedreno-Fernandez;Zoe Mann; Elena Chrysostomou; Elachumee Canden;Beatriz Lorente-Canovas; Karen Steel; Berta Alsina;*Nicolas Daudet
4:45 PD 21
The effect of Auditory Visual temporal coherence on the representation of one of two competing sound streams in ferret auditory cortex
*Huriye Atilgan; Stephen Town; Katherine Wood; Gareth Jones; Jennifer Bizley
12.00 Travel Award Luncheon
Invited Speaker - Jonathan Gale
Posters
PS 23
Shaping Action Potentials in the Auditory Nerve: Recruitment of Kv Channels to Specialized Microdomains in Spiral Ganglion Neurons
*Katie Smith; Brikena Hoxha; Dan Jagger
PS 24
Fatty Acids as Native Modulators of Coding in the Auditory Nerve
*Lorcan Browne; Katie Smith; David McAlpine; David Selwood; Dan Jagger
PS 72
Structural Changes in Inner Hair Cells and Surrounding Structures in a Mouse Model of Hidden Hearing Loss
*Anwen Bullen; Warren Bakay
PS 73
Short term synaptic plasticity of medial olivocochlear- hair cell synapses is altered by a point mutation in α9α10 nAChR
*Carolina Wedemeyer; Lucas Vattino; Jimena Ballestero; Eleonora Katz; Ana Belén Elgoyhen
PS 149
Coding of Sound Level in the Auditory Midbrain of Mammals with Different Hearing Ranges: a Comparative Study
*Warren Bakay; Jose Garcia-Lazaro; David McAlpine; Roland Schaette
PS 214
Tracking auditory thresholds
Dorothée Arzounian; Mathilde de Kerangal; Alain de Cheveigné
Sun 21 Feb
Podium
8:45 PD 37
Stress granules and mechanisms of RNA triage during cochlear stress
*Ana Claudia Goncalves; Naila Haq; Emily Towers; Lisa Nolan; Sally Dawson; Jonathan Gale
Posters
PS 239
Imaging Brain Structures in Children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
*Hannah Cooper; Doris-Eva Bamiou; Lorna Halliday; Chris Clark
PS 259
Inferior colliculus responses to intra-cochlear electrostimulation using Oticon Medical Animal Stimulation Platform in-vivo.
Lucy Anderson; Matthieu Recugnat; David McAlpine
PS 286
How does Lmx1a regulate tissue boundary formation in the inner ear?
*Zoe Mann; Vincent Plagnol; Nicolas Daudet
PS 348
SorCS2 as a Master Regulator of Hair Cell Planar Asymmetry
*Dan Jagger; Ruth Taylor; Mike Lovett; Sally Dawson; Andy Forge
PS 415
Decoding Speech Sound Source Direction from Electroencephalography Data
*Daniel Wong; Ulrich Pomper; Emina Alickovic; Jens Hjortkjær; Carina Graversen; Sahar Akram; Malcolm Slaney; Daniel Pressnitzer; Shihab Shamma; Alain de Cheveigné
PS 455
Manipulation of the Human Vestibular Environment to Generate Hair Cells
*Ruth Taylor; Jeffrey Holt; Michael Lovett; Anastasia Filia; Andrew Forge
Mon 22 Feb
Symposium
8:30 SYMP 48
Neural Correlates of Relative Sound Localisation
*Katherine Wood; Stephen Town; Huriye Atilgan; Gareth Jones; Jennifer Bizley
Podium
9:45 PD 73
Application of Next Generation Sequencing for Gene Discovery in Otosclerosis
*Sally Dawson; Joanna Ziff; Michael Crompton; Jeremy Lavy; Aldren Christopher; Karen Steel; Shakeel Saeed
Posters
PS 509
Selective increase of auditory cortico-striatal coherence during auditory-cued Go/NoGo discrimination learning
Andreas Schulz; Marie Woldeit; Katja Saldeitis; Ana Goncalves; Frank Ohl
PS 516
Neural Codes for Pitch Perception in the Actively- and Passively-Listening States
*Kerry Walker; Jennifer Bizley; Jan Schnupp; Fernando Nodal; Andrew King
PS 525
Attentive object tracking in busy dynamic scenes
*Daniel Bates; Ulrich Pomper; Maria Chait
PS 526
Temporal Predictability in Crowded Acoustic Scenes Modulates Early Stages of Perceptual Organization: Evidence from MEG
*Ediz Sohoglu; Maria Chait
PS 529
The Impact of Gaze Direction on Human Auditory Processing
*Ulrich Pomper; Maria Chait
PS 604
Myosin 7a Immunolabeling is Not a Reliable Marker for Hair Cell Viability
*Shimon Francis; Elyssa Monzack; Lindsey May; Jonathan Gale; Lisa Cunningham
Tue 23 Feb
Podium
8:00 PD 115
Sensitivity to the Statistics of Rapid, Stochastic Sequences
*Sijia Zhao; Marcus Pearce; Fred Dick; Maria Chait
Posters
PS 891
A continuous paradigm for pitch discrimination
*Mathilde de Kerangal; Dorothée Arzounian; Alain de Cheveigné
PS 922
On the Relation Between Objective Measures and Hidden Hearing Loss
*Jaime A. Undurraga; Richard Windle; Priya Pransveswaran; Macarena Bowen; David McAlpine; Roland Schaette
Wed 24 Feb
Podium
10:30 PD 195
Severe Hair Bundle Anomalies that Differ with Hair Cell Type are Associated with Disruption of SorCS2.
*Andy Forge; Ruth Taylor; Sally Dawson; Michael Lovett; Angela Laws; Dan Jagger