November 2022	Barbara Canlon, Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Noise trauma: The good, the bad and the ugly
May 2019	Catherine Weisz, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health Natioinal Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Inhibition of Auditory Efferent Neurons
January 2018	Justin Aronoff, Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The Benefits, Limitations, and Potential of Bilateral Cochlear Implants
December 2017	Andrea Warner-Czyz, Ph.D., CCC-A The University of Texas Dallas Optimizing Early Communication Outcomes with Cochlear Implants Using Spoken Language
March 2017	Mark A. Rutherford, Ph.D. Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine Mechanisms of Sound-Induced Synaptic Disintegration in the Organ of Corti
December 2016	Ryan McCreery, Ph.D. Boys Town National Research Hospital What can studying children who wear hearing aids tell us about auditory development?
May 2016	Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D. College de France Institut Pasteur Understanding hearing mechanisms: avenues opened up by deafness genes
March 2016	Karen Iler Kirk, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Speech and Hearing Science Assessing Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Hearing Loss
October 2015	Barbara Canlon, Professor Karolinska Institutet Circadian Regulation of Auditory Function
April 2015	Ruth Anne Eatock, Ph.D. University of Chicago Department of Neurobiology Vestibular hair cells and afferents: Driving fast reflexes
March 2015	Gerald Kidd, Ph.D. Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Understanding speech in complex environments: The benefits of a “visually-guided hearing aid” for solving the “cocktail party problem”
February 2015	Allison Coffin, Ph.D. Washington State University Vancouver Protecting our hearing, one fish at a time: hair cell death and protection in a zebrafish model system
September 2014	Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Emergence of Hearing and Language in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
April 2014	Andrew K. Groves, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine The Challenges of Regeneration of the Mammalian Cochlea
January 2014	Donald Caspary, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Plasticity and the Danger of Low-hanging Fruit: Central Auditory Neurotransmission in Aging and Tinnitus
November 2013	Peter Narins, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles Ground sound detection in golden moles: Compensating for reduced vision with geophone ears
April 2013	Mikko Sams, Ph.D., Alto University Real-world (almost) caused brain activity
January 2013	Jenny Saffran, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Sounds and Meanings working together: Word learning as a collaborative effort
November 2012	Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Making sense of sound: spiral ganglion neuron development and function
July 2012	Huanping Dai, Ph.D., University of Arizona The Pitch of Harmonic Sound
April 2012	Jonathan Fritz, Ph.D., Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland From Sound to Meaning – Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing
February 2013	*Arnold Starr, M.D., Research Professor, Neurology School of Medicine Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences University of California – Irvine Hearing disorders, accompanying disorders of the auditory nerve, and hair cell ribbon synapses
January 2012	Sharon Kujawa, Ph.D., Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear After the Noise Stops: Cochlear Nerve Degeneration after “Temporary” Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
December 2011	Ed Rubel, Ph.D., Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington Fish in a Dish: Discovering Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Inner Ear Hair Cell Death
October 2011	Christopher Brown, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University Delivering fine-structure cues to cochlear implant users
September 2011	Christopher Stecker, Ph.D., Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of Washington How does the human brain understand auditory space
May 2011	Deda Gillespie, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University Tuning the immature auditory brainstem to listen
March 2011	J.Wiebe Horst, Dept. Of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands Temporal coding and input-output curves in hearing and Neal Viemeister, Ph.D., Professor Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Dynamic auditory frequency resolution
September 2010	Andrej Kral, Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany What makes sensitive periods critical?
June 2010	Doug Cotanche, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Boston University School of Medicine Cell Fate Decisions in Cochlear Hair Cell Development and Regeneration
November 2009	Melanie Ferguson, Clinical Scientist (Audiology) National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing Nottingham, England Understanding auditory processing disorder in children, its characteristics and management
October 2009	Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Ph.D. National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires Investigator: Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering & Molecular Biology The Efferent Olivocochlear System and Protection from Acoustic Trauma
May 2009	Tobias Moser, M.D. Georg-August-University, Goettingen Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Molecular physiology of the hair cell ribbon synapse
February 2009	*Robert W. Sweetow, Ph.D. Director of Audiology; Professor of Otolaryngology University of California – San Francisco Clinical Management of the Tinnitus Patient
November 2008	Dan Goldreich, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Inference under uncertainty: how a Bayesian brain perceives the physical world
October 2008	Ervin Hafter, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Departmental Areas – Cognition, Brain & Behavior, Director: Auditory Perception Lab University of California – Berkeley A role for trace memory in shared attention
June 2008	Brian McDermott, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Case Western Reserve University Analysis and functional evaluation of the hair-cell transcriptome
April 2008	David Kemp, Ph.D., University College, London, Ear Institute OAEs: Sound from ears. Where does it come from and where is it leading us?
February 2008	*James Jerger, Ph.D. Distinguished Scholar in Residence University of Texas, Dallas Listening to Words: An Electrophysiological Perspective
December 2007	Anu Sharma, Ph.D. Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder Cortical development and re-organization in children with cochlear implants
December 2007	Jeffrey R. Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, School of Medicine The Molecules and Mechanisms of Mechanosensation in the Mammalian Inner Ear
October 2007	Mikkos Sams, Ph.D. Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering From reactive to active auditory system
October 2007	Christoph Schreiner, Ph.D. University of California – San Francisco Cellular mechanisms of auditory cortical function and plasticity
October 2007	Carrick L. Talmadge, Ph.D. University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics Human cochlear physics: theory and experiment
May 2006	Brad May, Ph.D. Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins University Sensory screening procedures for mouse models of hearing
May 2006	Dan Sanes, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neural Science and Biology New York University Functional development of the auditory central nervous system & the impact of hearing loss
February 2006	Peter Heil, Ph.D. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany Temporal summation and auditory pattern recognition
February 2006	David R. Moore, Ph.D. Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research University of Oxford, U. K. Auditory learning in theory and practice
March 2006	*Brian C. J. Moore, Ph.D. Professor of Auditory Perception University of Cambridge, U. K. Perception of pitch by normally hearing & hearing-impaired people
October 2005	Kelly L. Tremblay, Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle The aging auditory system: physiological perspectives on temporal processing and auditory rehabilitation

* Lectures sponsored in conjunction with the Doctor of Audiology Program, Northwestern University