Publications
2025
Sci Rep. 2025, accepted>
3D virtual histology of rodent and primate cochleae with
multi-scale phase-contrast tomography
J Chromatogr A. 2025 Feb 22, 1743:465674. doi:
10.1016/j.chroma.2025.465674
Combining
steric exclusion with anion exchange - development of a universal and scalable
adeno-associated virus downstream process
Theranostics. 2025 Feb 18, accepted
Improved optogenetic modification of the spiral ganglion
neurons for future optical cochlear implants
eLife. 2025 Feb 12, reviewed preprint. doi:
10.7554/eLife.103481.1
Probing the role
of synaptic adhesion molecule RTN4RL2 in setting up cochlear connectivity
bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 27;2025.01.25.634844. doi:
10.1101/2025.01.25.634844
Structural
Basis of Lipid Membrane Binding by Human Ferlins
bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 25;2025.01.23.634330. doi:
10.1101/2025.01.23.634330
Gating of hair
cell Ca2+ channels governs the activity of cochlear neurons
bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 22;2025.01.22.633148. doi:
10.1101/2025.01.22.633148
Structures of
the 26S proteasome in complex with the Hsp70 cochaperone Bag1 reveal a novel
mechanism of ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation
Front Cell Neurosci. 2025 Jan 7;18:1523978. doi:
10.3389/fncel.2024.1523978
Noise-induced
ribbon synapse loss in the mouse basal cochlear region does not reduce inner
hair cell exocytosis
2024
Hum Mol Genet. 2024 Dec 27:ddae188. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddae188
A TAF11 variant
contributes to non-syndromic cleft lip only through modulating neural crest cell
migration
Elife. 2024 Dec 24;12:RP93749. doi: 10.7554/eLife.93749
Bridging the gap
between presynaptic hair cell
function and neural sound encoding
Elife. 2024 Dec 24, 13:RP93646. doi: 10.7554/eLife.93646
CaBP1 and 2 enable
sustained CaV1.3 calcium
currents and synaptic transmission in inner hair cells
Am J Med Genet A. 2024 Dec 17:e63952.. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63952
A Homozygous MYH1
Variant Underlies Autosomal Recessive Isolated Recurrent Rhabdomyolysis
bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Dec 17:2024.01.29.577264. doi:
10.1101/2024.01.29.577264
Chloride
binding to prestin does not influence very high-frequency complex nonlinear
capacitance (cNLC) in the mouse outer hair cell
Eur J Hum Genet. 2024 Dec 12. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01759-9
Bi-allelic
MYMX variants cause a syndromic congenital myopathy with recognizable facial
palsy, growth restriction, and dysmorphism
J Physiol. 2024 Oct 5. doi: 10.1113/JP286400
The synaptic vesicle
cluster as a controller of pre- and postsynaptic structure and function
Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Oct 9. doi: 10.1038/s41587-024-02431-9. Epub ahead of
print.
One-step
nanoscale expansion microscopy reveals protein shapes
using conventional microscopes
Genet Med. 2024 Sep 20:101278. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2024.101278
Elucidating the
clinical and genetic spectrum of inositol polyphosphate phosphatase
INPP4A-related neurodevelopmental disorder
Genes (Basel). 2024 Sep 13;15(9):1203. doi: 10.3390/genes15091203
A Novel MAG Variant
Causes Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia in a Consanguineous Pakistani Family
Life Sci Alliance. 2024 Aug 12th, 7(11):e202402793. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202402793
Morphological
correlates of synaptic protein turnover in the
mouse brain
Clin Genet. 2024 Aug 6th. doi: 10.1111/cge.14599, Epub ahead of print
Genetic
landscape of hearing loss in prelingual deaf patients of eastern Iran: Insights
from exome sequencing analysis
Annu Rev Neurosci. 2024 Aug, 47(1):103-121. doi:
10.1146/annurev-neuro-070623-103247
Toward
optogenetic hearing restoration
medRxiv. 2024 Jul 22nd. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.18.24310581, Preprint
Biallelic pathogenic variants in TRMT1 disrupt tRNA
modification and induce a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder
Circ Res. 2024 Jul 16th, 135(5):554-574. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.324588
Dysferlin
Enables Tubular Membrane Proliferation in Cardiac Hypertrophy
Appl Opt. 2024 Jul 24th, 63, 5876-5885. doi: 10.1364/AO.522367
Microlens arrays for
multichannel laser-to-waveguide coupling
medRxiv. 2024 Jun 20th. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.19.24308302, Preprint
PSMF1 variants cause a phenotypic spectrum from
early-onset Parkinson’s disease to perinatal lethality by disrupting
mitochondrial pathways
Front Cell Neurosci. 2024 Jun 26;18:1412450. doi:
10.3389/fncel.2024.1412450
Age-related
alterations in efferent medial olivocochlear-outer hair cell and primary
auditory ribbon synapses in CBA/J mice
Hear Res. 2024 Jun 15th, 450:109047. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.109047, Online
ahead of print
A burden
shared: The evolutionary case for studying human deafness in Drosophila
Clin Genet. 2024 Jun 10th. doi: 10.1111/cge.14563, Epub ahead of
print
Expanding the
spectrum of phenotypes for MPDZ: Report of four unrelated families and review of
the literature
Exp Mol Med. 2024 Jun 3rd. doi: 10.1038/s12276-024-01247-6, Epub ahead of
print
Catching up but
still miles behind - a patient registry for otoferlin
Adv Healthc Mater. 2024 Apr 12th, e2304513. doi:
10.1002/adhm.202304513
Fabrication and
characterization of PDMS waveguides for flexible optrodes
Nat Commun. 2024 Apr 10, 15(1):3119. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47469-0
A subgroup of
light-driven sodium pumps with an additional Schiff base counterion
Glia. 2024 Apr 8th, 72(8):1374-1391. doi: 10.1002/glia.24533
Downregulated
expression of lactate dehydrogenase in adult oligodendrocytes and its
implication for the transfer of glycolysis products to axons
Med. 2024 Apr 12th, 5(4):285-287. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.02.007
A cure for deafness?
Protein Cell. 2024 Apr 1st, 15(4):305-312. doi: 10.1093/procel/pwad058
Ca2+ binding to
the C2E domain of otoferlin is required for hair cell exocytosis and hearing
J Cell Mol Med. 2024 Apr. 28(8):e18119. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.18119
Autosomal
recessive non-syndromic hearing loss genes in Pakistan during the previous three
decades
EMBO Mol Med. 2024 Apr, 16(4):675-677. doi:
10.1038/s44321-024-00058-6
Gene therapy
for deafness: are we there now?
Cell Death Dis. 2024 Mar 20th, 15(3):229. doi:
10.1038/s41419-024-06606-9
METTL3-dependent m6A modification of PSEN1 mRNA regulates craniofacial
development through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway
BioRxiv. 2024 Mar 19th. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.18.585517,
Preprint
Establishing synthetic ribbon-type active zones in a
heterologous expression system
Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 13th, 15(1):2269. doi:
10.1038/s41467-024-46354-0
Biallelic NAA60
variants with impaired n-terminal acetylation capacity cause autosomal recessive
primary familial brain calcifications
Hum Genet. 2024 Mar 9th, doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02649-2, Epub ahead of
print
PKHD1L1, a gene
involved in the stereocilia coat, causes autosomal recessive nonsyndromic
hearing loss
Hum Genomics. 2024 Mar 6th, 18(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s40246-024-00593-w
Zebrafish as a
model to investigate a biallelic gain-of-function variant in MSGN1, associated
with a novel skeletal dysplasia syndrome
Eur J Hum Genet. 2024 Mar 6th, doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01579-x, Epub ahead of
print
Rethinking
non-syndromic hearing loss and its mimics in the genomic era
Stem Cell Res. 2024 Mar;75:103317. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2024.103317
Genome
engineering of a neuronal specific, optogenetic, induced pluripotent stem cell
line
Aging Cell. 2024 Feb 28th, e14128. doi: 10.1111/acel.14128, Online ahead of
print
Inhibition of
26S proteasome activity by α-synuclein is mediated by the proteasomal chaperone
Rpn14/PAAF1
Front Mol Neurosci. 2024 Feb 28th, 17:1351280. doi:
10.3389/fnmol.2024.1351280
Optical
measurement of glutamate release robustly reports short-term plasticity at a
fast central synapse
Eur J Hum Genet. 2024 Feb 19th. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01562-6, Epub ahead of
print
Genetic
heterogeneity in hereditary hearing loss: Potential role of kinociliary protein
TOGARAM2
Nat Chem. 2024 Feb 7th, 16:363-372.
doi: 10.1038/s41557-024-01440-0
Characterizing ATP processing by the AAA+ protein p97 at the atomic
level
Mol Ther. 2024 Jan 18th, S1525-0016(24)00021-2. doi:
10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.01.021, Online ahead of print
Clarin-2 gene
supplementation durably preserves hearing in a model of progressive hearing loss
BioRxi. 2024 Jan 17th. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.15.575777.
Preprint
CryoRhodopsins: a comprehensive characterization of a new clade
of microbial rhodopsins from cold environments
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2024 Jan 16:e202307555. doi:
10.1002/anie.202307555
Channelrhodopsin-2
Oligomerization in Cell Membrane Revealed by Photo-Activated Localization
Microscopy
Brain. 2024 Jan 13th, awae010. doi: 10.1093/brain/awae010, Epub ahead of
print
Novel
loss-of-function variants expand ABCC9-related intellectual disability and
myopathy syndrome
BioRxiv. 2024 Jan 11th. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574708.
Preprint
An inappropriate decline in ribosome levels drives a diverse
set of neurodevelopmental disorders
Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 2nd, 15(1):65. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44548-6
Hijacking of
internal calcium dynamics by intracellularly residing viral rhodopsins
2023
Mol Cell Proteom. 2023 Dec 20th, 23(2):100704. doi: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100704.
Proteomic
analysis reveals the composition of glutamatergic organelles of auditory inner
hair cell
Mol Neurobiol. 2023 Dec 20th. doi: 10.1007/s12035-023-03865-z
Light-Driven
Sodium Pump as a Potential Tool for the Control of Seizures in Epilepsy
Front Mol Neurosci. 2023 Dec 12th, 16:1299509. doi:
10.3389/fnmol.2023.1299509
Probing the
role of the C2F domain of otoferlin
Appl Optics. 2023 Dec 10th, 62(35):9353-9360. doi: 10.1364/AO.505167.
Multichannel
laser diode to polymer waveguide array coupling with a double-aspheric lens
Protein Cell. 2023 Dec 8th, pwad058. doi: 10.1093/procel/pwad058, Online ahead
of print
Ca2+-binding to
the C2E domain of otoferlin is required for hair cell exocytosis and hearing
iScience. 2023 Dec 7th, 108700. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108700, Online ahead of
print
Developmental changes of the mitochondria in the murine
anteroventral cochlear nucleus
Genet Med. 2023 Dec 3rd, 101034. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2023.101034
Biallelic variants in SLC4A10 encoding the sodium-dependent
chloride-bicarbonate exchanger NCBE lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Nov 29th, 120(49):e2311539120. doi:
10.1073/pnas.2311539120
Ca2+
regulation of glutamate release from inner hair cells of hearing mice
J Biophotonics. 2023 Nov 29th, e202300358. doi: 10.1002/jbio.202300358, Online
ahead of print
Angle-dependent
light scattering in tissue phantoms for the case of thin bone layers with
predominant forward scattering
Genom Med. 2023 Nov 29th, 15:102. doi: 10.1186/s13073-023-01258-4
Evaluating the association of biallelic OGDHL variants with
significant phenotypic heterogeneity
BioRxiv. 2023 Nov 18th. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.17.567544v1,
Preprint
Efficient and sustained optogenetic control of nervous and
cardiac systems
Brain. 2023 Nov 10th, awad380. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad380, Epub ahead of
print
Bi-allelic
ACBD6 variants lead to a neurodevelopmental syndrome with progressive and
complex movement disorders
Genome Med. 2023 Nov 9th, 15(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s13073-023-01240-0
Structural and
non-coding variants increase the diagnostic yield of clinical whole genome
sequencing for rare diseases
Eur J Hum Genet. 2023 Oct 26th. doi: 10.1038/s41431-023-01461-2, Online ahead of
print
Bi-allelic
truncating variants in CASP2 underlie a neurodevelopmental disorder with
lissencephaly
iScience. 2023 Oct 20th, 26(10), 107725. doi:
10.1016/j.isci.2023.107725
En route to sound coding strategies for optical cochlear
implants
bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 17th. doi: 10.1101/2023.10.16.562475,
Preprint
CaBP1 and 2 enable sustained CaV1.3 calcium currents
and synaptic transmission in inner hair cells
Hum Genomics. 2023 Oct 13th, 17 (93). doi: 10.1186/s40246-023-00539-8
FGFR1 variants contributed to families with tooth
agenesis
medRxiv. 2023 Oct 9th. doi: 10.1101/2023.10.08.23296081
PKHD1L1, a gene involved in the stereociliary coat,
causes autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss
EMBO J. 2023 Oct 6th, e114587. doi: 10.15252/embj.2023114587
Diversity matters - extending sound intensity coding by inner
hair cells via heterogeneous synapses
Brain Stimul. 2023 Sep 29th, S1935-861X(23)01920-4. doi:
10.1016/j.brs.2023.09.018.
Devising a framework of optogenetic coding in the auditory
pathway: insights from auditory midbrain recordings
Cell Death Dis. 2023 Sep 28th, 14(9):641. doi: 10.1038/s41419-023-06157-5
RNF40
epigenetically modulates glycolysis to support the aggressiveness of basal-like
breast cancer
Front Mol Neurosci. 2023 Sep 6th, Vol 16. doi:
10.3389/fnmol.2023.1248941
Synaptic activity is not required for establishing
heterogeneity of inner hair cell ribbon synapses
Life. 2023 Sep 2nd, 13(9), 1858. doi: 10.3390/life13091858
mRNA abundance
of neurogenic factors correlates with hearing capacity in auditory brainstem
nuclei of the rat
Front Genet. 2023 Aug 21st, Vol 14. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1214736
Unraveling haplotype errors in the DFNA33 locus
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023 Aug 10th, Vol 11. doi:
10.3389/fcell.2023.1178992
Age-dependent structural reorganization of utricular ribbon
synapses
EMBO rep. 2023 Jul 21st, e56702. doi: 10.15252/embr.202256702
Piccolino is required for ribbon architecture at cochlear inner
hair cell synapses and for hearing
J Neural Eng. 2023 Jul 6th, 20(4). doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ace219.
Combining biophysical models and machine learning to optimize
implant geometry and stimulation protocol for intraneural electrodes
Genes (Basel). 2023 Jul 6th, 14(7):1404. doi: 10.3390/genes14071404
Genetic
investigation of consanguineous Pakistani families segregating rare
spinocerebellar disorders
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2023 Jun 29th, 30(7):970-979. doi:
10.1038/s41594-023-01020-9
Mechanisms of inward transmembrane proton translocation
mSystems. 2023 Jun 29, 8(3):e0000823. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00008-23
Flotillin-associated rhodopsin (FArhodopsin), a widespread paralog of
proteorhodopsin in aquatic bacteria with streamlined genomes
Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 16th, 14(1):3486. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38943-2
Mechanisms of
simultaneous linear and nonlinear computations at the mammalian cone
photoreceptor synapse
Nature. 2023 May, 617(7962):842-850. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06049-w
Structural
basis of catalytic activation in human splicing
Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2023 Mar 21st, Online ahead of print. doi:
10.1016/j.omtm.2023.03.009
Channelrhodopsin fluorescent tag replacement for clinical
translation of optogenetic hearing restoration
BioRxiv. 2023 Mar 10th. doi: 10.1101/2022.08.03.502284.
Preprint.
Visualizing proteins by expansion microscopy
Eur J Hum Genet. 2023 Jan 24th, Online ahead of print. doi:
10.1038/s41431-023-01285-0
An encounter
with the mild side of LARS2-associated Perrault syndrome and its implications on
the diagnostic odyssey
Brain Stimul. 2023 Jan 23rd, Epub ahead of print. doi:
10.1016/j.brs.2023.01.1671
Graded
optogenetic activation of the auditory pathway for hearing restorations
Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2023 Jan 23rd, 17:1105562. doi:
10.3389/fnins.2023.1105562
Patient perspectives on the need for improved hearing
rehabilitation: A qualitative survey study of German cochlear implant users
GMS Zeitschrift für Audiologie - Audiological Acoustics. 2023 Jan 20th, Doc01.
doi: 10.3205/zaud000027
Mit Lichtstrahlen das
Gehör wiederherstellen - Restoring hearing with light
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 18th, 24:1874. doi: 10.3390/ijms24031874
Not to miss:
intronic variants, treatment, and review of the phenotypic spectrum in
VPS13D-related disorder
BioRxiv. 2023 January 7th. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.04.522823.
Preprint.
Flotillin-Associated rhodopsin (FArhodopsin), a widespread
paralog of proteorhodopsin in aquatic bacteria with streamlined genomes
2022
Analytical Chemistry. 2022 December 27th, 94(51):17751-17756. doi:
10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00494
Mono- and
intralink filter (Mi-filter) to reduce false identifications in cross-linking
mass spectrometry data
eLife. 2022 December 23rd, 11:e79494. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79494
Optogenetics and
electron tomography for structure-function analysis of cochlear ribbon
synapses
Materials (Basel). 2022 December 22nd, 16(1):106. doi:
10.3390/ma16010106
On the
fabrication and characterization of polymer-based waveguide probes for use in
future optical cochlear implants
BioRxiv. 2022 December 16th. doi: 10.1101/2022.12.15.520589.
Preprint.
Piccolino regulates the architecture of the ribbon at cochlear
inner hair cell synapses
Frontiers in Psychology. 2022 November 29th, 13:1047242.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1047242
Group-based,
autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Macaca
fascicularis) in their home enclosure to a visuo-acoustic discrimination
task
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2022 November 28th, 10:987691.
doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.987691
Monoallelic loss of the F-actin-binding protein radixin
facilitates startle reactivity and pre-pulse inhibition in mice
BioRxiv. 2022 November 27th. doi: 10.1101/2022.11.27.518035.
Preprint.
Optical measurement of glutamate release robustly reports
short-term plasticity at a fast central synapse
Nature. 2022 November 23th, 611:827-834. doi:
10.1038/s41586-022-05472-9
Regulation of the mammalian-brain V-ATPase through ultraslow
mode-switching
Human Molecular Genetics. 2022 October 27th; ddac267. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddac267
A mutation in ATP11A
causes autosomal-dominant auditory neuropathy type 2
Developmental Dynamics. 2022 October 25th. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.548. Online ahead
of print
Cochlear hair
cell innervation is dependent on a modulatory function of semaphorin-3A
bioRxiv. 2022 October 20th. doi: 10.1101/2022.10.19.512823.
Preprint.
Bridging the gap between presynaptic hair cell function and
neural sound encoding
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022 September
14th; 23(18):10673. doi: 10.3390/ijms231810673
Skeletal class
III malocclusion is associated with ADAMTS2 variants and reduced expression in a
familial case
Cell Reports Sneak Peak. 2022 September 6th.
Tackling the dynamic range problem of hearing: Diverse hair cell
synapses enable broad neural sound intensity coding
bioRxiv. 2022 September 6th. doi: 10.1101/2022.09.05.506618.
Preprint.
Graded optogenetic activation of the auditory pathway for neural
network analysis and hearing restoration
EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2022 August 8th, 14(8):e15798. doi:
10.15252/emmm.202215798
Is there an unmet medical need for improved hearing restoration?
bioRxiv. 2022 August 5th. doi: 10.1101/2022.08.03.502284.
Preprint.
Expansion microscopy at one nanometer resolution
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 2022 July 23rd,
9(9):1465-1474. doi: 10.1002/acn3.51633.
GGPS1-associated
muscular dystrophy with and without hearing loss
Methods in Molecular Biology. 2022 July 21st, 2501:277-288.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2329-9_13
Electrophysiological characterization of microbial rhodopsins by
patch-clamp experiments
Human Mutation. 2022 July 21st, 43(10):1472-1489. doi:
10.1002/humu.24435
Biallelic
variants in WARS1 cause a highly variable neurodevelopmental syndrome and
implicate a critical exon for normal auditory function
Human Mutation. 2022 July 21st, 43(10):1454-1471. doi:
10.1002/humu.24430
WARS1 and SARS1:
two tRNA synthetases implicated in autosomal recessive microcephaly
IEEE Spectrum. Online, 2022 July 18th.
Restoring
hearing with beams of light
Science Advances. 2022 July 15th, 8(28):eabl7560. doi:
10.1126/sciadv.abl7560
Resolving the molecular architecture of the photoreceptor active
zone with 3D-MINFLUX
Clinical and Translational Discovery. 2022 July 7th. doi:
10.1002/ctd2.102. Online ahead of print, 2022 July 7th
Whole genome sequencing for newborns—The devil is in the details
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 2022 July
6th.
Model-based prediction of optogenetic sound encoding in the
human cochlea by future optical cochlear implants
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 2022 June 7th, 103749.
doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2022.103749
Synaptic
transmission at the vestibular hair cells of amniotes
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2022 June 1st,
144(21):9229-9239. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c12314
Fast
photoswitchable molecular prosthetics control neuronal activity in the
cochlea
American Journal of Human Genetics. 2022 May 12th,
S0002-9297(22)00158-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.04.010
Genome-wide
association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of
the stria vascularis in hearing loss
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
2022 May 11th, doi: 10.1111/jdv.18207
Biallelic KITLG
variants lead to a distinct spectrum of hypomelanosis and sensorineural hearing
loss
bioRxiv. 2022 May 10th. Preprint.
Optogenetics and electron tomography for structure-function
analysis of cochlear ribbon synapses
Life Science Alliance. 2022 May 5th, 5(8):e202101338. doi:
10.26508/lsa.202101338
Analyzing efficacy,
stability and safety of AAV-mediated optogenetic hearing restoration in
mice
Neuron. 2022 May 4th, 110(9):1483-1497.e7. doi:
10.1016/j.neuron.2022.02.008
Colocalization of
different neurotransmitter transporters on synaptic vesicles is sparse except
for VGLUT1 and ZnT3
Nature Communications. 2022 March 28th, 13:1648. doi:
10.1038/s41467-022-29185-9
Flexible auditory training, psychophysics, and enrichment of
common marmosets with an automated, touchscreen-based system
Human Genetics. 2022 March 12th, 141(3-4):431-444. doi:
10.1007/s00439-022-02444-x
Autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss maps to DFNA33
(13q34) and co-segregates with splice and frameshift variants in ATP11A, a
phospholipid flippase gene
Molelcular and Cellular Neuroscience. 2022 March 11th,
120:103720. doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2022.103720
Methods for multiscale structural and functional analysis of the
mammalian cochlea
eLife. 2022 March 11th, doi: 10.7554/eLife.75523
Progressive
axonopathy when oligodendrocytes lack the myelin protein CMTM5
Nature Communications. 2022 March 4th, 13:1163. doi:
10.1038/s41467-022-28720-y
White
matter integrity requires continuous myelin synthesis at the inner tongue in
mice
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 2022 March 3rd, 17(1):97.
doi: 10.1186/s13023-022-02244-6
Identification
of three novel homozygous variants in COL9A3 causing autosomal recessive
Stickler syndrome
HNO. 2022 March, 70:200–205. doi:
10.1007/s00106-021-01100-6
3-D-Druck-optimierte Anpassung eines Mittelgesichtsimplantats
zur magnetgetragenen nasalen Epithesenversorgung
Nature Communications. 2022 February 21st, 21;13(1):985. doi:
10.1038/s41467-022-28629-6
Multichannel
optogenetics combined with laminar recordings for ultra-controlled neuronal
interrogation
Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy. 2022 February 15th. doi:
10.1007/s40291-022-00578-2
The Road Traveled and Journey Ahead for the Genetics and
Genomics of Tinnitus
Nature Communications. 2022 February 11th, 13(1):838. doi:
10.1038/s41467-022-28186-y
Allosteric control of Ubp6 and the proteasome via a
bidirectional switch
eLife., 2022 February 7th, 11:e72251.doi:
10.7554/eLife.72251
The
Cl--channel TMEM16A is involved in the generation of cochlear
Ca2+ waves and promotes the refinement of auditory brainstem networks
in mice
Journal of Neuroscience. 2022 January 20th, JN-RM-0216-21. doi:
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0216-21.2022
Selective interruption of auditory interhemispheric crosstalk
impairs discrimination learning of frequency-modulated tone direction but not
gap detection and discrimination
Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 2022 January 5th.
Effects of cortical cooling on sound processing in auditory
cortex and thalamus of awake marmosets
2021
Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngology. 2021 December 7th,
7(1):219-225. doi: 10.1002/lio2.714
Performance and self-perceived hearing impairment after cochlear
implantation in Menière's disease
Physiological Reviews. 2021 November 2nd, 102: 269–318. doi:
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