2024 AANW: The Australasian Auditory Neuroscience Workshop

8.30-9.30                      Registration, coffee and tea

9.30-10.45                     Plenary session

Session Chair: A/Prof Helmy Mulders

9.30-9.45                      Welcome

9.45-9.55                      A/Prof Jenny Rodger

What is Brain Bee?

9.55-10.45                   Plenary Lecture: Prof Ethan Scott

Mapping entire auditory networks in zebrafish larvae

10.45-11.15                 Morning tea

11.15-12.00                 Session 1: Human studies

Session Chairs: Dr Kelly Short and Dr Derek Delaney

11.15-11.30                   Dr Hadeel Tarawneh

Exploratory research into the effects of exercise, rhythm, and music on Central Auditory Processing Disorder in children

11.30-11.45                 Emma Chaffey

Novel psychoacoustic measure of spectral-temporal processing for discrete regions of the electrode-neural interface for cochlear implant users: a proof-of-concept study

11.45-12.00                 Dr Anjula De Silva

Bimodal EEG and fNIRS Measurement of Auditory Evoked Responses

12.00-12.40                 Chair: Dr Dan Brown

Invited Presentation: E/Prof Alan Harvey

The psychophysiological phenomenon that is music

12.40-1.40                   Lunch

1.40-2.55                     Session 2: In vitro studies

Session Chairs: Dr Hadeel Tarawneh and Dr Anu Sabu

1.40-1.55                     Dr Kelly Short

Developing an inner ear cell-based model to assess drug candidates for their anti-fibrotic properties in vitro

1.55-2.10                     Fiona Leith

Usher syndrome type I patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cell line characterised for use in preclinical inner ear organoid model

2.10-2.25                     Joey Lye

Modelling patient specific USH2A gene mutations associated Usher syndrome type II hearing loss

2.25-2.40                     Dr Derek Delaney

A human inner ear organoid drug screening platform

2.40-2.55                     Mardi Gammon

Neurotrophin therapy for cochlear synapse regeneration after excitotoxic trauma

2.55-3.10                     Dr Corina Ionescu

Nanocapsule delivery for the inner ear

3.10-3.45                     Afternoon tea

3.45-5.15                     Session 3: Animal studies

Session Chairs: Dr Anjula De Silva and Dr Corina Ionescu

3.45-4.00                     Dr David Sly

The effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 on the auditory nerve response to cochlear implant stimulation

4.00-4.15                     Kady Braack

Anti-fibrotic drugs reduce the extent of cochlear implant-induced fibrosis in an in vivo guinea pig model of cochlear implantation

4.15-4.30                     Dr Anu Sabu

Studying the responses of auditory midbrain neurons to speech stimuli presented at different signal-to-noise ratios in cats

4.30-4.45                     Sarah Kiloni

Analogue optical stimulation for precise speech encoding

4.45-5.00                     Steven Tran

Characterisation of Osseous and Soft Tissue Microanatomy in the Ovine Cochlea

5.00-5.15                     Jack Zimdahl

Higher levels of anxiety are associated with tinnitus in a rat model

5.15-5.25                     Closing of meeting

5.25-6.00                     Networking event and sundowner

6.00                             Dinner

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Prizes for 1st & 2nd best Honours/PhD and Postdoctoral presentations ($200 award each; 4 prizes) – Sponsored by TBA