Dr. Lidia Eva Wysocki
Address: University of Maryland, Department of Biology
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: ++1 301 405 6903
E-mail: lwysocki@umd.edu
Name: Lidia Wysocki
Nationality: Austrian
Nov. 2003 Doctoral degree of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat) with excellence.
Dissertation topic: “The auditory capabilities of fishes: temporal
patterns, conspecific sounds, and the influence of noise.”
1994 Matura (equivalent to A-levels) with excellence at a linguistic branch.
Special courses
April 2002 Seminar: Project management and negotiation training
Aug. 2000 Summer course “Acoustic communication” at the Center for Sound Communication, Odense, Denmark
Since Oct. 2004 Post doctoral fellow with at the University of Maryland with Prof.
Arthur N. Popper
Dec. 2004-Sept. 2004 Post doctoral fellow with at the University of Vienna with Prof.
Friedrich Ladich
2000-2003 Scientific coworker (Research assistant) in the projects NR. 12411 and 15873, FWF (Austrian Research Fund) grants to Prof. Friedrich Ladich, University of Vienna tutor (teaching assistant) in anatomy and physiology courses at the Institute of Zoology/University of Vienna.
July 1996 Volunteer in a sea turtle protection project in Turkey.
July 2004 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Lisboa
(Portugal): “Noise, stress, and cortisol secretion in teleost fishes”, L. E. Wysocki,
F. Ladich, and J. P. Dittami.
July 2003 First International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals,
College Park: “Hearing in otophysine fishes under noise conditions”, L.
E. Wysocki & F. Ladich.
Nov. 2002 32th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando (Florida):
“The representation of conspecific sounds in the auditory system of
teleost fishes”, L. E. Wysocki & F. Ladich.
Sept. 2001 Austrian Neuroscience Association, 7th Meeting, Seggau: “Is the auditory system of fishes adapted to the resolution of temporal patterns of
intraspecific sounds?”, L. E. Wysocki & F. Ladich.
July 2001 6th International Congress of Neuroethology, Bonn: “Can fishes resolve
temporal characteristics of sounds? New insights using auditory
brainstem responses”, L. E. Wysocki & F. Ladich.
May 2001 Fish Bioacoustics Meeting, Chicago (Illinois): Ontogeny of hearing and
sound production in fishes”, L. E. Wysocki & F. Ladich.
Nov. 2000 30th Annual Meeting of theSociety for Neuroscience, New Orleans
(Lousiana): “Ontogenetic development of auditory sensitivity and
vocalization in croaking gouramis (Teleosts)”, L. E. Wysocki & F.
Ladich.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F. Detection of communication sounds. In: Fish Communication. Ladich,
F., Collin, S.P., Moller, P., Kapoor, B.G. (eds.). Narosa Publ. House, New Delhi, in press.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2005. Hearing in fishes under noise conditions. JARO, in press.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2005. Effects of noise exposure on click detection and the temporal
resolution ability of the goldfish auditory system. Hear. Res. 201, 27–36.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich F., Dittami, J.P., 2004. Noise, stress, and cortisol secretion in teleost fishes.
Horm. Behav. 46, 125.
Ladich, F., Wysocki, L.E., 2003. How does Weberian ossicle extirpation affect hearing sensitivity
in otophysine fishes? Hear. Res. 182, 119-129.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2003. The representation of conspecific sounds in the auditory brainstem
of teleost fishes. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 2229-2240.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2002b. Can fishes resolve temporal characteristics of sounds? New
insights using auditory brainstem responses. Hear. Res. 169, 36-46.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2002a. Ontogeny of hearing and sound production in fishes.
Wysocki, L.E., Ladich, F., 2001. The ontogenetic development of auditory sensitivity,
vocalization and acoustic communication in the labyrinth fish Trichopsis vittata.
J. Comp. Physiol. A 187, 177-187.
Association for the Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
German (native language); French (first foreign language), English (second foreign language); Polish (paternal language); Russian, Spanish (basic knowledge)