ARO meeting, Baltimore 2013
Australians on the left - Rebecca Lim, Ian Curthoys (front left), Alan Brichta (red sweater); middle-right: Ruth Anne, Will, Nicole, Judith Kempfle (honorary lab associate), Sophie Brauer (from EPFL), and Gang Li (front right)
Cover image of a the sensory epithelium of the saccule, a vertical linear accelerometer of the inner ear; from:
Songer JE, Eatock RA. Tuning and timing in mammalian type I hair cells and calyceal synapses. J Neurosci. 2013;33:3706-3724.
Stimulating the mechanosensitive bundle of a vestibular hair cell (left) while recording from the large calyx ending made by a nerve fiber on the hair cell (middle). Fluorescent dye in the recording pipette fills the calyx (right). Modified from Eatock and Songer, 2011.
Gordon Research Conference: Auditory System Summer 2014
Following the successful third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) -Auditory System in July 2012, a fourth meeting is planned for the summer of 2014. Again, the GRC will be preceded by a 1-day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for investigators at the pre- and post-doctoral stages, who are encouraged to stay and participate in the GRC.
The incoming Chair and Vice-Chair of the GRC are Ruth Anne Eatock and Steve Lomber; the new Chair and Co-Chair of the GRS are Sean Slee and Catherine Weisz. Please contact us with questions and ideas.
Nature’s Neuropod podcast from March 2009
At 22:37, an interview with Ruth Anne Eatock on the Johnston’s organ in fruitflies.
Eatock Laboratory