Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Communication, Music and Hearing Loss
Discussion Leader: Mario Svirsky (NYU School of Medicine, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
Darcy Kelley (Columbia University, United States)
"Linking Vocal Production to Auditory Perception: Evolving Neural Circuits for Communicating with Sound"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
Gabriel Corfas (University of Michigan, United States)
"The Roles of Peripheral Myelin Disorders in Hearing and Hearing Loss"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
Monita Chatterjee (Boys Town National Research Hospital, United States)
"Spoken Melodies, Emotional Communication and Cochlear Implants"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Predictable and Surprising Coding of Auditory Information
Discussion Leader: Melissa Caras (University of Maryland, College Park, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Jerome Bourien (University of Montpellier - Inserm, France)
"Sound Coding in the Auditory Nerve: From Animal Models to Humans"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Maria Chait (University College London, United Kingdom)
"How the Brain Discovers Structure in Sound Sequences: Evidence from Brain Imaging and Pupillometry"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Gideon Rothschild (University of Michigan, United States)
"Encoding of Sound Sequences and Their Meaning by Auditory Cortical Offset Responses"
10:45 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Caroline Niziolek (University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States)
"Neural Coordination of Speech Systems"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Matheus Macedo-Lima (University of Maryland, United States)
"Orbitofrontal Cortex Activity Modulates Auditory Cortex Responses and Sound Detection and Correlates with Perceptual Sensitivity"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Luis Rivera-Perez (Kresge Hearing Research Institute - University of Michigan, United States)
"VIP Signaling Modulates the Excitability of Medial Geniculate Neurons in Mice"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
Sergio Vicencio-Jimenez (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States)
"Hearing Across the Lifespan in Peromyscus Mice: Physiological Evidence for Delayed Age-Related Hearing Loss"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Monita Chatterjee (Boys Town National Research Hospital, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Immune and Nervous System Cross-Talk
Discussion Leader: Yehoash Raphael (University of Michigan, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:10 pm
Irina Marcovich (Boston Children's Hospital, United States)
"Broad-Spectrum Auditory Recovery After TMC1 Gene Therapy in a Novel Mouse Model of DFNB7/11"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Keiko Hirose (Washington University School of Medicine, United States)
"Cochlear Inflammation and Remodeling: Implications for Cochlear Implantation"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Cathy Yea Won Sung (National Institutes of Health, United States)
"CSF1R Inhibition Induces Macrophage Ablation and Protects Against Cisplatin-Induced Hearing Loss in Mice"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Auditory Function and Pathways: Connecting the Ear and the Brain
Discussion Leader: Cynthia Moss (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Paul Forlano (City University of New York, Brooklyn College, United States)
"Dopaminergic Auditory Efferents: A Role for Enhanced Detection of Social Acoustic Signals at the Level of the Inner Ear"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Nace Golding (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Mechanisms Underlying the Precise Encoding of Binaural Information"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Ross Maddox (University of Rochester, United States)
"Probing the Human Response to Speech Throughout the Auditory Pathway"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Antje Ihlefeld (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
"Circling Back on Theories of Masking"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Kirupa Suthakar (NIH/NIDCD, United States)
"Serotonergic Modulation of Medial Olivocochlear Neurons"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
Luis Cassinotti (Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, United States)
"Cochlear Neurotrophin-3 Overexpression at Mid-Life Prevents Age-Related Cochlear Synaptopathy and Slows Age-Related Hearing Loss."
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Hearing Without Vision and Vision Without Hearing
Discussion Leaders: Karen Gordon (University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Ione Fine (University of Washington, United States)
"Do You Hear What I See: The Effects of Visual Deprivation on Auditory Processing"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Ella Striem-Amit (Georgetown University, United States)
"What Can Blindness and Handlessness Tell Us About Auditory Loss?"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Liesbeth Gijbels (University Of Washington, United States)
"Audiovisual Speech Perception in children with or without Developmental Dyslexia"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Todd Mowery (Rutgers University, United States)
"A New Animal Model of Third Window Syndrome Allows Investigation into Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Induced Peripheral and Central Dysfunction"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Auditory Experience and Development: Hair Cells, Babies and Brains
Discussion Leader: Michael Roberts (University of Michigan, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Jason Sanchez (Northwestern University, United States)
"Developmental Regulation of Neural Excitability by Neurotrophins in the Avian Cochlear Nucleus"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Jennifer Stone (University of Washington School of Medicine, United States)
"Regulation of Vestibular Hair Cell Fate and Regeneration by Transcription Factors in Adult Mice"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Mariano Di Guilmi (INGEBI-CONICET, Argentina)
"The Efferent System in the Development of the Central Auditory Pathway"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (OIST Graduate University, Japan)
"Social Interactions Regulate Auditory Experience-Dependent Song Learning in Zebra Finches"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Aaron Tward (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"Cellular Lineage Dynamics in Cochlea Development"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
Bonnie Lau (University of Washington, United States)
"Individual Variability in the Development of Hemispheric Lateralization to Speech in Infants With and Without Hearing Loss"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Diagnoses and Interventions
Discussion Leader: Brandon Cox (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Konstantina Stankovic (Stanford University, United States)
"Human Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Toward Personalized Diagnostics, Prognostics and Therapeutics"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Jiayue Liu (Duke University, United States)
"Quantifying Cochlear Synaptopathy-Related Changes in Speech Perception"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Karen Steel (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Slowing and Reversing Progressive Hearing Loss: Proof-of- Concept in the Mouse"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm
Katharine Fernandez (NIDCD, United States)
"Statin Co-Therapy Reduces Hearing Loss in Cisplatin-Treated Adults with Head and Neck Cancer"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cognitive and Attentional Aspects of Hearing
Discussion Leader: Blake Butler (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Matthew McGinley (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
"Neural Circuits Mechanisms of Attentional (Listening) Effort"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Jonathan Peelle (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
"Cognitive Contributions to Understanding Acoustically- Challenging Speech"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Matthew Winn (University of Minnesota, United States)
"The Timing and Mechanisms of Listening Effort During Speech Perception"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Stefanie Kuchinsky (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, United States)
"Measuring and Modulating the Neural Mechanisms that Underlie Effortful Listening"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Jane Brown (University of Memphis, United States)
"Familiarity of Background Music Modulates the Cortical Tracking of Target Speech at the Cocktail Party"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
Kelsey Anbuhl (New York University, United States)
"Cingulate Cortex Facilitates Perception Under Difficult Listening Conditions"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Interconnection of Cells and Tissues
Discussion Leader: Catherine Weisz (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Karina Cramer (University of California, Irvine, United States)
"Microglial Influences on Auditory Brainstem Circuitry"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Sean Megason (Harvard University, United States)
"Pressure from Fluid and Extracellular Matrix Drives Inner Ear Morphogenesis"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Michael Hoa (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, United States)
"Single-Cell and Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq of the Adult Mouse Stria Vascularis: Cellular Heterogeneity, Homeostatic Regulatory Networks, and Implications for Hearing Instability Disorders"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh (Stanford University, United States)
"The Mechanical Properties of Hair Bundles Endow Them with Specialized Functions"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure