My lab is interested in sensory neurobiology with a primary focus on comparative studies of the auditory systems of vertebrates.  Research in the Auditory Neurobiology Laboratory involves study of the fish auditory system from the ear to the CNS at cellular, systems, and organismal levels using anatomical, neurophysiological, and behavioral approaches.  We have been using the sleeper goby, Dormitator latifrons, a hearing generalist, and the goldfish, Carassius auratus, a hearing specialist, as model systems for hearing research.  We have four major research directions:

1) Peripheral mechanisms of directional hearing in fish

2) Neural mechanisms of sound localization by fish

3) Florida red tides and hearing

4) Roles of fish otolithic organs in hearing