OHRC Faculty
Alfred L. Nuttall, Ph.D., Director
Research Interests: cochlear mechanics, cochlear blood flow, optical microangiography, laser vibrometry, molecular mechanisms, signal transduction
Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: hair cells, mechanotransduction, myosin, motors, ion channels, cytoskeleton, pumps and transporters, inner ear, hearing, balance, molecular
John V. Brigande, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research Interests: retroviral lineage analysis, fate map, fetal gene transfer, fetal pharmacotherapy, gene therapy for congenital deafness
Stephen David, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research Interests: auditory system, cortex, computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, behavior
Lina A.J. Reiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research Interests: cochlear implants, hearing aids, brain plasticity, hearing loss, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, auditory neuroscience
Tianying Ren, Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: cochlear mechanics, otoacoustic emissions, auditory physiology
Xiaorui Shi, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: cochlear homeostasis, blood-labrynth barrier, stria vascularis, pericytes
Dennis R. Trune, M.B.A., Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: immune-mediated inner-ear disease and hearing loss, intratympanic delivery of steroids for improved recovery of hearing loss, development of novel treatments for hearing loss, ion and water transport dysfunction in different forms of hearing loss, control of inflammatory processes of the middle ear, impact on middle-ear inflammation on the inner ear
Laurence O. Trussell, Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: synaptic physiology, auditory, hearing, receptors, synapses, neurotransmitters, plasticity
Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D., Professor
Research Interests: mechanotransduction, hair-cell synaptic transmission, genetics, hair-cell function, animal models of human deafness, zebrafish
Peter S. Steyger, Ph.D., Professor
Research Focus: ototoxicity, aminoglycosides, platinum-based drugs, drug trafficking, blood-labyrinth barrier, cellular uptake and clearance of drugs