Past Bellucci Symposiums

• Age-Related Cellular and Molecular Changes Associated with Vestibular Sensory Epithelium
  Samadhi Kulasooriya, Huizhan Liu, Sarath Vijaykumar, Celia Bloom, Mi Zhou, Litao Tao, David Z. He
• Biochemical And Bioenergetic Alterations in Cochlear Tissue: A Comparitive Study in Wild Type and Alport Syndrome Knockout Mice Under Quiet and Noise Conditions
  Brendan Smyth, Jared Hartsock, Nathan Yates Nelson, Linda Weisenmiller, Dominic Cosgrove, Michael Anne Gratton
• Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Antimycrobacterial Acetamides
  E. Jeffrey North, Katie Cunningham, Lily Calisto, Sonia Rocha-Sanchez
• Development of a Polygenic Score to Predict Cisplatin-Induced Ototoxicity
  Deanne Nixie R. Miao, Mackenzie A. P. Wilke, John Pham, Mansumeet Singh, Janilyn Arsenio, Emilia Luca, Alain Dabdoub, Wejian Yang, Jun Yang, Britt I. Drogemoller
• Drug Discovery and Delivery Core in the Translational Hearing Center at Creighton University
  Chunkai Wang, Alekha Dash, Patrick Swanson, Peter Steyger, Satish Agrawal, Jeff North, Sarath Vijayakumar, Linda Goodman, Gopal Jadhav
• Hearing Loss and Synaptopathy
  Laura Sullivan, Jae-Hyeon Park, Burcin Duan Sahbaz, Komal Pekhale, XiXia Chu, Mustafa Our, Mhamed Grati, Kevin Isgrig, Wade Chien, Elena Chrysostomou, Doborah Croteau, Uri Manor, Vihelm Bohr
• Mutational Screening of a Known Atoh1 Enhancer
  Tuba Ege, Celia Bloom, Litao Tao
• PKHD1L1, a Gene Involved in the Stereociliary Coat, Causes Autosomal Recessive Non-syndromic Hearing Loss
  Shelby Redfield, Pedro De-la-Torre, Mina Zamani, Hanjun Wang, Hina Khan, Tyler Morris, Gholamreza Shariati, Majid Karimi, Margaret Kenna, Go Hun Seo, Hongen Xu, Wei Lu, Sadaf Naz, Hamid Galehdari, Artur Indzhykulian, A. Eliot Shearer, Barbara Vona

 Introduction by Litao Tao, PhD (Creighton University) and moderated by Jun Xia, PhD (Creighton University)

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Matthew Kelley, PhD

• The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• Identification of transcriptional regulators of cochlear development using single cell RNA sequencing

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Doris Wu, PhD

• The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• Sonic hedgehog signaling orchestrates both cochlear duct and spiral ganglion development

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Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD

• The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• Illuminating Inner Ear Development Using Cell Type-Specific Omics

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Jennifer Stone, PhD

• University of Washington
• The transcription factor Sox2 plays a key role in maintaining the phenotype of type II vestibular hair cells and in regulating vestibulo-motor behaviors in adult mice

  We were proud to present the Bellucci Trainee Award to Nesrine Benkafadar, PhD, PharmD, from Stanford University and the Bellucci Pioneer Award in Hearing Research to Jaime García Añoveros, PhD, from Northwestern University.

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Pictured from left to right, Peter Steyger, PhD, Creighton University, Nesrine Benkafadar, PhD, PharmD, Stanford University, Jaime García Añoveros, PhD, Northwestern University, Litao Tao, PhD, Creighton University.

Bellucci Trainee Award

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Nesrine Benkafadar, PhD, PharmD

• Stanford University
• An essential signaling cascade for auditory hair cell regeneration
• Introduced by Emma Longsworth, Creighton University

Bellucci Pioneer Award in Hearing Research

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Jaime García-Añoveros, PhD

• Northwestern University
• A Developmental Dichotomy: How the Cochlea Makes Inner vs Outer Hair Cells
• Introduced by Shreshtha Dash, Creighton University

  Moderated by Marisa Zallocchi, PhD (Creighton University)

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Daniel Goldman, PhD

• University of Michigan
• Muller glial cell reprogramming and retina regeneration

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James Martin, MD, PhD

• Baylor College of Medicine
• Hippo-signaling in Heart Regeneration

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Alan Cheng, MD

• Stanford University
• Regeneration of the damaged human vestibular system

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Karl Koehler, PhD

• Harvard University
• Inner ear organoids for modeling development and disease

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Joshua Orvis

• Bioinformatics Engineer,
• Johns Hopkins University
• gEAR Workshop: How to use the gEAR Portal to investigate -omics data

  Dedication Ceremony for the Dr. Richard J. Bellucci Translational Hearing Center

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Mardell Wilson, EdD, Provost, Creighton University Kevin O’Leary, President, Bellucci DePaoli Family Foundation

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Peter S. Steyger, PhD, Director, Dr. Richard J. Bellucci Translational Hearing Center, Creighton University