26. Oktober 2026
- 28. Oktober 2026
Confirmed Speakers
+ Matthew McGinley (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA): Efferent influences of neuromodulatory brain state along the entire auditory pathway
+ Amanda Lauer (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA): The role of auditory efferents in adapting to changing ecosystems (soundscapes)
+ A. Belén Elgoyhen (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina): Beyond modulation: the cochlear efferent system as a driver of auditory circuit formation
+ Brett Schofield (Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA): Toward an integrated view of the auditory efferent system: merging models and mechanisms of the central and peripheral auditory pathways
+ Catherine Weisz (NIH-NIDCD, Bethesda, MD, USA): Complex synaptic connectivity of MOC efferent neurons
+ J. Chris Holt (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA): Efferent control of the cochlear amplifier: An exploration of MOC neurons and their peripheral synaptic mechanisms
+ Christine Köppl (Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, DE): Do efferents have a role in cochlear ageing?
+ Paul M Forlano (City University of New York, New York, NY, USA): Dopamine modulation of the inner ear: enhanced detection of social acoustic signals in a vocal fish
+ Elisabeth Glowatzki (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA): Dopaminergic lateral efferent feedback - cellular mechanisms underlying possible protection from hearing loss
+ Elizabeth Strickland (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA): Behavioral measures that may reflect efferent effects in humans: What do we know, and where should we go?
+ Gabriel Romero (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA): Central control of peripheral sound encoding via multimodal feedback to the inner ear
+ Tamara Radulovic (Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, DE): Development of inhibition in LOC neurons
+ Jong-Hoon Nam (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA): Efferent modulation of intra-cochlear mechanics
+ Lisa Goodrich (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA): The ins and outs of lateral olivocochlear efferents
+ María Eugenia Gomez-Casati (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina): Efferent-mediated plasticity in the cochlea: linking auditory sensitivity, nuclear translocation, and synapse formation
+ Marta Andrés de Miguel (Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain): Mosquito auditory efferent control: from receptors to vector control
+ Shawn Goodman (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA): Structural equation models of efferent effects on cochlear mechanics
+ Skyler Jennings (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA): Does attention modulate the human cochlear microphonic via cortical-cochlear feedback?
+ Sonja Pyott (Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, DE): Peripheral efferent reorganization after damage
+ Daniela Schwarz & Go Ashida (Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, DE): Model-based reinterpretation of IHC receptor potentials – reviving 40 year old data
+ Dr. Yunfeng Hua (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China): Cochlear Circuit Basis for Sound Encoding
