Research in Sonja Pyott’s laboratory investigates the fundamental biology of sensory transduction in the inner ear, the pathophysiology of hearing and balance disorders, and the consequences of hearing and balance disorders on health and wellbeing.

The goal of our research is to develop new strategies to prevent and treat hearing and balance disorders. To achieve this goal, we use an interdisciplinary toolkit that leverages physiological, imaging, transcriptomic, genomic, and comparative and evolutionary approaches to investigate normal function and pathophysiology of the auditory and vestibular pathways in animal models and humans is interested in the molecular function of the inner ear and how function of the inner ear shapes the brain.

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