Research
Auditory Neurobiology and Bioacoustics of Fishes

Research in my lab uses electrophysiological, behavioral, molecular, and morphological analysis to understand processes related to hearing in teleost fishes. Projects in my lab examine the teleost auditory system in biomedical, environmental, and ecological/evolutionary contexts. Current projects include examining gene expression patterns during the process of sensory hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish inner ear, developing predictive models of hearing loss in fishes, understanding the tonotopic organization of the fish ear, studying sound localization abilities in fishes, and describing unique morphological features of the peripheral auditory structures of loricariid catfishes.