Eaton-Peabody Laboratories

Eaton-Peabody Laboratories - Seminar Series

EPL sponsors a seminar series featuring talks relevant to research in hearing and deafness.  All are welcome to attend. 

Notes

New day and time: Usually THURSDAYS at 4 pm.  Location is the Meltzer Auditorium or Sloane Teaching Room on the 3rd floor of:   Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,  243 Charles Street,  Boston, MA 02114

Series on development and regeneration in the eye and ear in March and April:  Five presentations (March 1, 9, 16, 22 and April 5)  form a series on development and regeneration themes in the retina and ear, co-hosted by the Opthalmology and Otolaryngology Departments at MEEI.  Please note that two talks are on Fridays at noon.

  

Thursday, February 2, 4 pm, SLOANE Room

Tim Gardner, Ph.D., Boston University

Sparse contour representations for sound

Host: Daniel_Polley@meei.harvard.edu

 

Thursday, February 9, 4 pm, SLOANE Room

Jeffrey Tao Cheng, Ph.D., Eaton Peabody Labs, Harvard and MEEI

Measurement of tympanic membrane motion by stroboscopic holography

Host: John_Rosowski@meei.harvard.edu

Five presentations (March 1, 9, 16, 22 and April 5)  form a series on development and regeneration themes in the retina and ear, co-hosted by the Opthalmology and Otolaryngology Departments at MEEI.  Please note that two talks are on Fridays at noon.

 

THURSDAY March 1, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Paola Arlotta, Ph.D., MGH and Harvard

Molecular development of corticospinal neurons and building of local microcircuitry in the cerebral cortex 

Host: Clint_Makino@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY March 8, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Mark Rutherford, Ph.D., University of Goettingen

Afferent synaptic transmission in the cochlea

Host: eatock@meei.harvard.edu 

 

FRIDAY March 9, NOON, Meltzer Auditorium

Tom Reh, Ph.D., University of Washington

Stem cell approaches for the treatment of blindness

Host: Clint_Makino@meei.harvard.edu

 

FRIDAY March 16, NOON, Meltzer Auditorium

Michael Young, Ph.D., Scheppens Eye Research Institute

Stem cells for the treatment of retinal disease

Host:; Clint_Makino@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY March 22, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Albert Edge, Ph.D., EPL

Regeneration of the inner ear using stem cells

Host: eatock@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY April 5, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Neil Segil, Ph.D., House Ear Institute

Development and regeneration of the inner ear: Mechanisms regulating cell proliferation and cell fate

Host: eatock@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY April 26, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Israel Nelken, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

TBA

Invited by the Students of EPL; contact Luke Shaheen, lshaheen@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY May 3, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Mitchell Day, Ph.D., Eaton-Peabody Labs, MEEI and Harvard Medical School

Neural coding of concurrent, spatially-separated sound sources

Host: Bertrand_Delgutte@meei.harvard.edu

 

THURSDAY May 31, 4 pm, Meltzer Auditorium

Amir Lahav, Ph.D., Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston

Restoring the acoustic environment for premature infants in the neonatal ICU

Host: eatock@meei.harvard.edu