April 2023 | Celebrating the Distinguished Achievements of James R. Bartles, Ph.D. Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D. The Vollum Institute Oregon Health Sciences University Developmental Assembly of the Hair Bundle |
March 2023 | Mark A. Rutherford, Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology Selective glutamate receptor antagonism suppresses excitotoxicity in cochlear nerve fibers to prevent effects of noise trauma while maintaining hearing function |
November 2022 | Barbara Canlon, Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Noise trauma: The good, the bad and the ugly |
May 2019 | Catherine Weisz, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health Natioinal Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Inhibition of Auditory Efferent Neurons |
January 2018 | Justin Aronoff, Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The Benefits, Limitations, and Potential of Bilateral Cochlear Implants |
December 2017 | Andrea Warner-Czyz, Ph.D., CCC-A The University of Texas Dallas Optimizing Early Communication Outcomes with Cochlear Implants Using Spoken Language |
March 2017 | Mark A. Rutherford, Ph.D. Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine Mechanisms of Sound-Induced Synaptic Disintegration in the Organ of Corti |
December 2016 | Ryan McCreery, Ph.D. Boys Town National Research Hospital What can studying children who wear hearing aids tell us about auditory development? |
May 2016 | Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D. College de France Institut Pasteur Understanding hearing mechanisms: avenues opened up by deafness genes |
March 2016 | Karen Iler Kirk, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Speech and Hearing Science Assessing Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Hearing Loss |
October 2015 | Barbara Canlon, Professor Karolinska Institutet Circadian Regulation of Auditory Function |
April 2015 | Ruth Anne Eatock, Ph.D. University of Chicago Department of Neurobiology Vestibular hair cells and afferents: Driving fast reflexes |
March 2015 | Gerald Kidd, Ph.D. Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Understanding speech in complex environments: The benefits of a “visually-guided hearing aid” for solving the “cocktail party problem” |
February 2015 | Allison Coffin, Ph.D. Washington State University Vancouver Protecting our hearing, one fish at a time: hair cell death and protection in a zebrafish model system |
September 2014 | Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Emergence of Hearing and Language in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users |
April 2014 | Andrew K. Groves, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine The Challenges of Regeneration of the Mammalian Cochlea |
January 2014 | Donald Caspary, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Plasticity and the Danger of Low-hanging Fruit: Central Auditory Neurotransmission in Aging and Tinnitus |
November 2013 | Peter Narins, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles Ground sound detection in golden moles: Compensating for reduced vision with geophone ears |
April 2013 | Mikko Sams, Ph.D., Alto University Real-world (almost) caused brain activity |
January 2013 | Jenny Saffran, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Sounds and Meanings working together: Word learning as a collaborative effort |
November 2012 | Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Making sense of sound: spiral ganglion neuron development and function |
July 2012 | Huanping Dai, Ph.D., University of Arizona The Pitch of Harmonic Sound |
April 2012 | Jonathan Fritz, Ph.D., Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland From Sound to Meaning – Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing |
February 2013 | *Arnold Starr, M.D., Research Professor, Neurology School of Medicine Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences University of California – Irvine Hearing disorders, accompanying disorders of the auditory nerve, and hair cell ribbon synapses |
January 2012 | Sharon Kujawa, Ph.D., Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear After the Noise Stops: Cochlear Nerve Degeneration after “Temporary” Noise-Induced Hearing Loss |
December 2011 | Ed Rubel, Ph.D., Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington Fish in a Dish: Discovering Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Inner Ear Hair Cell Death |
October 2011 | Christopher Brown, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University Delivering fine-structure cues to cochlear implant users |
September 2011 | Christopher Stecker, Ph.D., Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of Washington How does the human brain understand auditory space |
May 2011 | Deda Gillespie, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University Tuning the immature auditory brainstem to listen |
March 2011 | J.Wiebe Horst, Dept. Of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands Temporal coding and input-output curves in hearing and Neal Viemeister, Ph.D., Professor Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Dynamic auditory frequency resolution |
September 2010 | Andrej Kral, Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany What makes sensitive periods critical? |
June 2010 | Doug Cotanche, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Boston University School of Medicine Cell Fate Decisions in Cochlear Hair Cell Development and Regeneration |
November 2009 | Melanie Ferguson, Clinical Scientist (Audiology) National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing Nottingham, England Understanding auditory processing disorder in children, its characteristics and management |
October 2009 | Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Ph.D. National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires Investigator: Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering & Molecular Biology The Efferent Olivocochlear System and Protection from Acoustic Trauma |
May 2009 | Tobias Moser, M.D. Georg-August-University, Goettingen Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Molecular physiology of the hair cell ribbon synapse |
February 2009 | *Robert W. Sweetow, Ph.D. Director of Audiology; Professor of Otolaryngology University of California – San Francisco Clinical Management of the Tinnitus Patient |
November 2008 | Dan Goldreich, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Inference under uncertainty: how a Bayesian brain perceives the physical world |
October 2008 | Ervin Hafter, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Departmental Areas – Cognition, Brain & Behavior, Director: Auditory Perception Lab University of California – Berkeley A role for trace memory in shared attention |
June 2008 | Brian McDermott, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Case Western Reserve University Analysis and functional evaluation of the hair-cell transcriptome |
April 2008 | David Kemp, Ph.D., University College, London, Ear Institute OAEs: Sound from ears. Where does it come from and where is it leading us? |
February 2008 | *James Jerger, Ph.D. Distinguished Scholar in Residence University of Texas, Dallas Listening to Words: An Electrophysiological Perspective |
December 2007 | Anu Sharma, Ph.D. Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder Cortical development and re-organization in children with cochlear implants |
December 2007 | Jeffrey R. Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, School of Medicine The Molecules and Mechanisms of Mechanosensation in the Mammalian Inner Ear |
October 2007 | Mikkos Sams, Ph.D. Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering From reactive to active auditory system |
October 2007 | Christoph Schreiner, Ph.D. University of California – San Francisco Cellular mechanisms of auditory cortical function and plasticity |
October 2007 | Carrick L. Talmadge, Ph.D. University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics Human cochlear physics: theory and experiment |
May 2006 | Brad May, Ph.D. Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins University Sensory screening procedures for mouse models of hearing |
May 2006 | Dan Sanes, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neural Science and Biology New York University Functional development of the auditory central nervous system & the impact of hearing loss |
February 2006 | Peter Heil, Ph.D. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany Temporal summation and auditory pattern recognition |
February 2006 | David R. Moore, Ph.D. Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research University of Oxford, U. K. Auditory learning in theory and practice |
March 2006 | *Brian C. J. Moore, Ph.D. Professor of Auditory Perception University of Cambridge, U. K. Perception of pitch by normally hearing & hearing-impaired people |
October 2005 | Kelly L. Tremblay, Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle The aging auditory system: physiological perspectives on temporal processing and auditory rehabilitation |
* Lectures sponsored in conjunction with the Doctor of Audiology Program, Northwestern University