February 2024
Audrey, Yoani, Elie, and Michael attend the MidWinter meeting for ARO in Anaheim, California!
Audrey gave a talk at the ARO Circuits and Function of Auditory Midbrain and Auditory Brainstem symposium!
Yoani won 2nd place at the ARO poster blitz competition!
January 2024
Audrey’s review article on why it is so important to do circuit bashing in the IC is published in Hearing Research!
Congrats, Audrey!!
December 2023
Dr. Luis Rivera-Perez, the lab’s first graduate student, is officially hooded at the University of Michigan 2023 Winter Commencement Ceremony.
Congratulations, Luis!!!
November 2023
A potluck at Sue Moenter’s house to wish our final goodbyes to Marina and her family!
The lab goes axe throwing to celebrate Marina as she heads to UTSA to begin her assistant professor position
October 2023
2nd Annual Michaelfest - Happy Birthday Michael!
Pot luck with friends from Kresge Hearing Institute to celebrate Michael’s birthday.
September 2023
Marina’s paper was accepted at the Journal of Neuroscience!
Congratulations to Marina, Audrey, Trinity, Trevor, and Amanda!!
July 2023
David Goyer, our first postdoctoral fellow, returned for a visit! We had a blast catching up with David and his wife Steffi over dinner at the Jolly Pumpkin in downtown Ann Arbor.
Sarah presented her work on “Frequency tuning in inferior colliculus neurons partially predicts selectivity for directional frequency sweeps” at the Magnificent Michigan Summer Research Fellows Poster Session.
June 2023
University of Michigan Neuroscience Conference 2023:
Yoani won best poster award for “T-Stellate neuron synapses onto NPY and VIP neurons in the inferior colliculus undergo short-term depression.” Congratulations, Yoani!
Michael gave a talk titled, “Neuropeptide Y Regulates Recurrent Excitation in the Auditory Midbrain.”
May 2023
Luis successfully defended his dissertation “Neuromodulatory Mechanisms in the Auditory Tectothalamic Pathway.”
Congratulations, Dr. Luis M. Rivera-Perez!
Kresge Hearing Research Institute - Founders Day Symposium 2023:
Audrey presented “NR2D-Containing NMDA Receptors Enhance Temporal Summation in VIP Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus.”
Yoani presented “Short-Term Synaptic Depression at T-Stellate Synapses in the Auditory Midbrain.”