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Iowa Auditory Neuroscience Symposium

Itinerary

Urmila Sahai Seminar Room- 2117 MERF
8:00-8:45 am Register, coffee/pastries
8:50-8:55 am Opening remarks- Dr. Samuel Young
9:00-9:20 am Dr. Hela Azaiez -“Unraveling the Hidden Complexities of Genetic Deafness to Empower Translational Medicine”
9:20-9:40 am Dr. Karen Thompson – “Connecting the ear to the brain: Determining the molecular mechanisms of afferent central guidance”
9:40-10:00 am Dr. Amy Lee – “A role for CaBP1 in regulating spiral ganglion neurite growth and guidance”
10:00-10:20 am Dr. Ning Hu -"Susceptibility to noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy varies through the estrous cycle"
1 0:20-10:40 am Break- coffee/tea pastries
10:40-11:00 am Dr. Daniel Eberl - “Auditory ion transport mechanisms”
11:00-11:20 am Dr. Christian Keine –“Neurotransmitter release mechanisms and their control of the initial stages of auditory processing”
1 1:20-11:40 am Dr. Camille Dunn - “Human Ecology in Cochlear Implants”
11:40 am-noon Dr. Megan Foggia -"The Foreign Body Response to Cochlear Implant Biomaterials"
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch-provided
1:00-1:20 pm Dr. Bob McMurray “Real-time dynamic of spoken word recognition in normal and impaired listeners: structure and function of cortical networks"
1:20-1:40 pm Dr. Inyong Choi -"Causal relationship between selective attention and speech unmasking during speech-in-noise recognition”
1:40-2:00 pm Dr. Yoojin Chung - “Neural coding and plasticity with cochlear implants”
2:00-2:20 pm Dr. Viral Tejani – “Psychophysical and Physiologic Electric-Acoustic Interaction in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users”
2:20-2:40 pm Break-coffee/tea
2 :40-2:45 pm Introduction- Dr. Inyong Choi
2:45-3:45 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: Dr. Barbara Shin-Cunningham, PhD - “Networks engage by spatial attention”
3:45-3:50 pm Closing remarks – Dr. Bruce Gantz

MERF Atrium
3:50-5:30 pm Poster session

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