Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Slow or Sudden: The Role of the Auditory Cortex in Goal-Directed Learning
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Gay (Rutgers University, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Slow or Sudden: The Role of the Auditory Cortex in Goal-Directed Learning"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Molecular Investigations of Auditory Circuits
Discussion Leader: Luis Rivera-Perez (Kresge Hearing Research Institute - University of Michigan, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Calvin Kersbergen (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Developmental Spontaneous Activity Establishes Sensory Domains, Frequency Tuning and Proper Gain in Central Auditory Circuits"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 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."
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 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"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Amanda Ciani Berlingeri (University of Washington, United States)
"Sox2 is Required for Normal Levels of Vestibular Hair Cell Regeneration in Adult Mice"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Lauren Kreeger (Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Whole-Neuron Innervation Map of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses onto Octopus Cells of the PVCN"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Cognitive and Behavioral Investigations of Auditory Circuits
Discussion Leader: Rose Ying (University of Maryland, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Lucas Vattino (Mass Eye and Ear - Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Recurrent Inhibitory Networks in Layer 1 of the Mouse Primary Auditory Cortex"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Kelsey Anbuhl (New York University, United States)
"Cingulate Cortex Facilitates Perception Under Difficult Listening Conditions"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Coty Jasper (Washington State Univeristy, United States)
"Mechanisms of Estrogen Induced Auditory Plasticity in the Plainfin Midshipman"
10:05 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Justine Wathour (Clinique universitaires St-Luc, Belgium)
"Prospective Comparison Between Manual and Computer Assisted (FOX®) Cochlear Implant Fitting in Newly Implanted Patients"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Dushyanthi Karunathilake (University of Maryland College Park, United States)
"Progression of Acoustic, Phoneme, Lexical, and Semantic Neural Features Emerge for Different Speech Listening"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Scientific Careers
Discussion Leader: Lukas Suveg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Scientific Careers
Bobby Gibbs (University of Maryland College Park, United States)
Andrea Kelly (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, United States)
Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
