EDWIN W RUBEL, PHD
Rubel Laboratory

Professor, Director of Research
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Virginia Merrill Bloedel Professor of Hearing Science
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center (VMBHRC)

Departments
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Physiology and Biophysics

Research Affiliations
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center

Research Interests
Development of Auditory Information Processing
Neuroembryology of the Auditory System
Inner Ear Hair Cell Deterieration and Regeneration
The Effects of Experience on Brain Development

Education
MS--Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1967
PhD--Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1969

Special Honors
1985 recipient of the Jacob Javits award from NINCDS
Former member of the NIDCD Advisory Council (1992-1996)
Award of merit from ARO (2005)

Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Society for Neurosciences

Most Significant Recent Articles

• Ultrastructural analysis of aminoglycoside-induced hair cell death in the zebrafish lateral line reveals an early mitochondrial response.
• A developmental switch to GABAergic inhibition dependent on increases in Kv1-type K+ currents.
• Development of spontaneous miniature EPSCs in mouse AVCN neurons during a critical period of afferent-dependent neuron survival.
• JNK signaling in neomycin-induced vestibular hair cell death.
• Afferent regulation of neuron number in the cochlear nucleus: cellular and molecular analyses of a critical period.
• Formation of the avian nucleus magnocellularis from the auditory anlage.
• Gene expression differences over a critical period of afferent-dependent neuron survival in the mouse auditory brainstem.

^ Top of page