Development of Sensory Organs: Volume 165(Volume 165 Current Topics in Developmental Biology)

Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Table of Contents:
1. Control of sensory cell differentiation in the inner ear by extracellular signals and transcriptional regulators Joel C. Nelson, Ishwar V. Hosamani, and Andrew K. Groves 2. Lifelong dynamic maintenance of stereocilia bundles in mammalian auditory hair cells A. Catalina Vélez-Ortega and Gregory I. Frolenkov 3. Not a hair out of place: Polarizing and orienting sensory hair cells Katie S Kindt and Basile Tarchini 4. Development of the semicircular canals and otolithic organs of the vertebrate inner ear Tanya T. Whitfield 5. Mechanisms driving the functional maturation of the developing mammalian auditory pathway Federico Ceriani, Katherine C. Wood, Stuart L. Johnson, Corné J. Kros, and Walter Marcotti 6. Functional development and differentiation of mammalian vestibular hair cells and their synapses Ruth Anne Eatock 7. Regeneration of sensory hair cells in mature mammals Bradley Walters, Brandon Cox, and Jennifer Stone 8. Developing and regenerating a sense of taste Christina M. Piarowski, Trevor J. Isner, and Linda A. Barlow 9. The genesis of neurons and glia in the developing retina Juliette Wohlschlegel, Lew Kaplan, and Thomas A Reh 10. Genetic and epigenetic control of photoreceptor development Zepeng Qu, Anand Swaroop, and Carolina Beltrame Del Debbio 11. The photoreceptor outer segment: development and renewal Roni A. Hazim, Steven K. Fisher, and David S. Williams 12. Development and regeneration of Merkel cells Yudong Zhou and Elena Ezhkova 13. Development of vertebrate cutaneous end-organ complexes José A. Vega, Yolanda García-Mesa, Patricia Cuendias, José Martín-Cruces, Ramón Cobo, Jorge García-Piqueras, Iván Suazo, and Olivia García-Suárez

About the Author :
Guy Richardson obtained BSc in Neurobiology (Hons) at the University of Sussex in 1974, and then did a PhD at the Max Planck Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen where he used the electromotor system of the electric ray, Torpedo marmorata, as a model system for studying the development of cholinergic motorneurorones and their synapses. He received his DPhil in 1980 and, after four years of postdoctoral research in Germany, returned to Sussex in 1984 to work on the inner ear, a sensory system that has remained the focus of his studies ever since. His work at Sussex has included the development of a cochlear culture system for studying, together with Professors Corne Kros and Ian Russell, the mechanisms of mechano-electrical transduction in mammalian sensory hair cells, the discovery of novel extracellular matrix molecules and cell surface proteins associated with the tectorial membrane and sensory hair bundles of the inner ear, the generation transgenic mouse models for elucidating the basis of various forms of human hereditary deafness, and studies on the mechanisms of antibiotic-induced ototoxicity. Guy was recipient of the Grand Prix Scientifique NRJ from the Institut de France in 2005. He was elected to the Royal Society in 2009 and to the Academy of Medical Science in 2013. Dr. Wu received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, her master’s degree from the Department of Physiology at the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Anatomy (currently the Department of Neurobiology) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her postdoctoral training from the Mental Retardation Center (now the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center) at UCLA and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. She joined the NIDCD in 1993 and has published many papers on the molecular mechanisms underlying inner ear development.