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SoCal Hearing Conference

The Center for Hearing Research at UC Irvine will host an informal one-day conference intended to enhance communication among Southern California scientists interested in hearing. The date is Friday, September 17, 2010. All levels of researchers (students through faculty) are welcome.

Registration is free, but recommended; please indicate if you would like to give a talk or present a poster. To register, click here. 

Directions to the meeting: please see the campus map and kindly note that the meeting is in the Qureshey Research Laboratory (building 506) on the campus map.  Visitors can park in the Mesa Parking Structure (MPS, click here for Main Campus Visitor Parking) adjacent to the Bren Events Center (bldg 901), purchase a parking permit on their way in, and then walk to the meeting site. This pedestrian map will help you find the Herklotz Conference Center, and watch for signs.

 First Annual SoCal Hearing Conference peter

 Friday, Sept. 17, 2010

Herklotz Conference Center, UC Irvine

The 1st Annual SoCal Hearing Conference is sponsored by the School of Social Sciences and the Center for Hearing Research, UCI.

Schedule of Events   

9:00-9:25    Coffee and pastries

9:25-9:30    Welcome/Introduction

9:30-9:45     Karina Cramer, UCI        “Building an Auditory Circuit: Molecules and Mechanisms”  

9:50-10:05     Guangying Wu, Caltech        “Inhibitory Circuits in Avian Brainstem”

10:10-10:25     Cory T. Miller, UCSD        “The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Antiphonal Calling in Marmosets”  

10:30-10:55    Break and poster viewing

10:55-11:10     Assal Habibi, UCI        “Brain Activity Accompanying Melody Processing: Comparison of Musicians and Non-Musicians”

11:15-11:30     David Landsberger, HEI    “Predicting Which Cochlear Implant Users Would Benefit from a Current Focusing Strategy”

11:35-11:50     Thom A. Campbell, UCD    “Auditory Evoked Responses and Methods for Speech-elicited Complex Auditory Brainstem Responses (cABRs)”

12:00-2:00    Lunch and poster viewing

2:00-2:15     Justin Aronoff, HEI        “The Role of Envelope-Encoding Processing Strategies in Cochlear Implant Users' Poor Sensitivity to Interaural Timing Differences”

2:20-2:35     Vanessa Miller-Sims, USC    “The Experience-Dependent Development of a Neural Circuit Underlying Vocal Learning in Zebra Finches”

2:40-2:55     Alana Kirby, UCI        “Temporal Sensitivity of Cortical Responses to Cochlear Implant Stimulation”  

3:00-3:30    Break and poster viewing

3:30-3:45     Weimin Zheng, NSI        “Adaptive Reorganization of the Tonotopic Map in the Primary Auditory Cortex of Adult Rats”

3:50-4:05     Khaleel Razak, UCR        “Selectivity for Frequency Modulated Sweeps in the Mouse Auditory Cortex”

4:10-4:25     Thomas Lu, UCI        “Bilateral Cochlear Implants”

4:30-5:00    Last chance for poster viewing

5:00--        Optional dinner at Steelhead brew pub

Posters  

Ewa M. Borucki, UCI        “Disassociating Spectral and Temporal Influences in an AM-QFM Discrimination Task”

Lea Fredrickson Hemsing, UCLA  “Mechanical Loading of Spontaneously Oscillating Hair Cells from the Bullfrog Sacculus”

Chen-Chung Lee, UCI        “Task-Dependence of Spatial Sensitivity Suggests Distinct Roles for  Three Cortical Areas in Sound Localization”

onathan I. Matsui, Pomona    “DMSO Enhances Cisplatin-induced Hair Cell Death in Zebrafish”

Myles McLaughlin, UCI    “The Source of Phase Shifts in the Field Potentials of the Medial Superior Olive”

John C Middlebrooks, UCI    “Spatial Stream Segregation Tested with Rhythmic MaskingRelease”

Allison I. Shim, UCI        “Spectral Weight Analysis of Commodulation Masking Release”

Arthi Srinivasan, HEI        “Improving Virtual Channel Discrimination in a Multi-Channel Context in Cochlear Implants”

Clark Elliott Strimbu, UCLA    “Dynamic State and Compressive Nonlinearity in Coupled Hair Cells in the Frog Sacculus”

Sarah E. Rotschafer, UCR    “Minocycline Treatment Improves Vocalization Production in a Mouse Model of fragile X syndrome”

Michael S Trujillo, UCR        “Age-related Differences in Cortical Processing of Frequency Modulated Sweeps in Mice”