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My research focuses on vestibular neuroscience: the neural control of balance and spatial orientation by the inner ear and brain. Current projects use immunochemistry, morphometry, and computer graphics to unravel mechanisms of signaling by hair cells (receptors of the inner ear) and vestibular afferents (neurons that carry hair cell signals to the brain). My laboratory is part of an interdisciplinary team that includes physiologists, behavioral biologists, engineers, and physicists at Ohio University and three additional institutions. The goal of our team is to understand mechanisms of vestibular signaling during natural behaviors. I also teach neuroscience to undergraduate and graduate students.