Author: radha

Continue reading Undergraduate Zara Mubin receives a Profost Scholarship for research

https://elifesciences.org/articles/55249 Menendez et al. have now identified four proteins which, when activated, convert fibroblasts, a common type of cell, into hair cells similar to those in the ear. These proteins are called Six1, Atoh1, Pou4f3 and Gfi1. Menendez et al. termed the resulting cells induced hair cells, or iHCs for short, and analyzed these cells … Continue reading Alex collaborates with Louise in the Segil Lab to compare the biophysical properties of reprogrammed and normal hair cells

https://elifesciences.org/articles/55378 Alex’s paper investigates how the relative loudness of sounds is encoded in the biophysical and anatomical properties of the spiral ganglion neurons that innervates the sensory hair cells of the inner ear. The results challenge the prevailing view that intensity sensitivity (leading to loudness perception) is defined solely by the physiology of the pre-synaptic … Continue reading Alex publishes first authored paper in eLife