ARO 2019 Mid-Winter Conference
24 January 2019
This year’s Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) mid winter conference will be attended by several Ear Institute researchers.

The 42nd annual conference takes place in Baltimore this year. If you are going, be sure to say hello to one of our researchers!
Details of our presentations are listed below.
'PS' = Poster Session
09/02/19
Name | Title | Session | Time |
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Billig, Alex | PS 148: Active Tracking of Sound Textures: a Human Intracranial Study | Human Auditory System: Electrophysiology | 1300 |
Cousins, Rick | Talk: Medicines Discovery for Age Related Hearing Loss: Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Time, Right Patient | PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM - Age-related hearing loss: What we know and what we need to know to develop treatments | 1230 |
Goncalves, Claudia | PS 201: Investigating the role of Hsp70 during stress granule formation in cochlear cells | Ototoxicity I | 1300 |
Heard, Gregory | PS 156: TRPV4 Receptors as Multimodal Sensors of Inner Ear Fluids | Inner Ear: Membranes & Fluids | 1300 |
Prades, Silvia | PS 53: Effects of Prolonged Purinergic Receptor Activation in Cochlear Glial Cells | Auditory Nerve I | 1300 |
Smith, Katie | PS 54: Enhanced Resolution Imaging of Excitable Microdomains in the Auditory Nerve during Development | Auditory Nerve I | 1300 |
10/02/19
Name | Title | Session | Time |
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Ali, Fatima | PS 492: Hearing the Ending: Psychophysical Measures of Sound-Offset Sensitivity | Psychophysical Characterization of Normal & Impaired Ears | 1300 |
Bamiou, Doris-Eva | PS 400: HoloBalance: Motivation and Monitoring of Vestibular Rehabilitation with use of Holograms in Augmented Reality. | Clinical Vestibular Applications | 1300 |
Cousins, Rick | PS 467: In vivo evaluation of GSK3077978A compound, a CD38 inhibitor, on age-related hearing loss in SAMP8 mice | Inner-Ear Therapeutics I | 1300 |
Marquardt, Torsten | PS 497: Masking and Suppression of Infrasound Tones by Higher Frequency Tones | Psychophysical Characterization | 1300 |
11/02/19
Name | Title | Session | Time |
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Daudet, Nicholas | PS 665: Inhibitor-of-Differentiation 4 (Id4): a Dominant-Negative Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor with Dose-Dependent Effects on Hair Cell Differentiation | Development III | 1300 |
Gale, Jonathan | Podium Talk: Injury Evoked Supporting Cell Activity in the Organ of Corti | Kolliker’s Organ: BigGERer Roles for an Overlooked Organ | 0930 |
Sollini, Joe | PS 557: Processing of spectrotemporally complex sound patterns (speech) in an animal model | Auditory Cortex Anatomy & Physiology III | 1300 |
Wells, Helena | PS 699: A Genome Wide Association Study in the UK Biobank Cohort Identifies a Large Number of Genome-wide Significant Loci Linked to Self-Reported Adult Hearing Ability | Genomics & Gene Regulation | 1300 |
Zak, Magdalena | PS 661: Notch and Wnt Signalling Interactions in the Formation of Inner Ear Sensory Organs | Development III | 1300 |
12/02/19
Name | Title | Session | Time |
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Chen, Ziqi | Podium Talk PD 107: Cellular and Mollecular Mechanisms of Sensory Organ | Development IV | 1430 |
Bury, Gabriela | PS 947: Pupillometry as an objective measure of listening effort and sustained attention in young and ageing populations | Human Auditory System: Imaging & Behavior | 1300 |
Sinclair, Jim | PS 868: Learning for Fun: Auditory Training in Mice using Wheel-Running as a Reward | Auditory Cortex: Plasticity | 1300 |
13/02/19 (Session also chaired by Lucy Anderson 8 - 10am)
Name | Title | Session | Time |
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Anderson, Lucy | PD 134: The Interplay Between the Effects of Noise Exposure and Aging on Neural | Age-related changes in humans & mice | 0945 |
Landry, Evie (evidENT) | Oral pres 550250: Accelerating Clinical Access and Implementation of Novel Hearing Therapeutics by Early Health Economic Modelling | Clinical Otolaryngology and Pathology | Not specified |