Our lab uses the inner ear as a model system to address fundamental questions in developmental biology and regeneration. The transformation of a simple piece of epithelium - the otic placode - into a ...

We are continuing to try and understand how BMP acts as a morphogen to specify different cochlear fates at different concentrations using transgenic and knockout mice and single cell RNA-seq Notch ...

Other recent or ongoing projects include the study of otolith formation, otic cilia, axial patterning of the otic placode, otic neurogenesis, and olfactory rod cells. In addition, we study the ...