Current lab members, left to right: (front): Xiahong Deng, Allison Coffin, Diane Mille, Michele Halvorsen, David Zeddies;
(rear) Jin LIang, Lale Evsen, Michaela Meyer, Arthur Popper, Lidia Wysocki, Michael Smith


Dr. Arthur N. Popper - apopper@umd.edu

Professor, Department of Biology
Co-Director, Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

Interim Associate Dean, College of Chemical and Life Sciences

Recent award: Federal Highway Administration 2005 Environmental Excellence Award - for Excellence in Ecosystems, Habitat, and Wildlife: Fisheries-Hydroacoustics Mitigation for San Francisco Bay Bridges/Bioacoustics Workgroup


Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Michele Halvorsen - Detection of ultrasonic sound by American shad
Dr. Jennifer Hill - Effects of anthropogenic sound on fish
Dr. David Zeddies - Biomechanics of inner ear function

Current Graduate Students

Xiaohong Deng, M.S., Ph.D. candidate - Structure of the Ear in Deep Sea Fishes

Lale Evsen, Ph.D. student - Development of the inner ear
Jin Liang, Ph.D. student

Michaela Meyer, M.S., Ph.D. candidate - Hearing in Primitive Fish
Diane Miller, Ph.D. student

Research Associates

Dr. Jiakun Song
Dr. Elena Sanovich
Dr. Mardi C. Hastings
Dr. Pamela Lanford
Dr. Christopher Platt
Dr. Joelle Presson

Past Postdocs, Students and Research Associates

Postdocs

Dr. Dennis Higgs (University of Windsor)
Dr. Antoni Lombarte
(Institut de Ciències del Mar)
Dr. Zhongmin Lu (University of Miami)
Dr. David Mann (University of South Florida)
Dr. Dennis Plachta (RWTH Aachen University)
Dr. Kirsten Poling (University of Windsor)
Dr. William Saidel (Rutgers University)
Dr. Michael Smith (University of Western Kentucky)
Dr. Lidia Wysocki (University of Vienna)
Dr. Hong Y. Yan (
Marine Research Station Jiashi, I-Lan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Graduate students

Dr. Allison Coffin (Queens University, Canada)
Dr. John Ramcharitar (St, Mary's College, MD))
Dr.
Heather Wilkins (Assumption College, MA)
Dr. Peggy Edds-Walton (Loyola University of Chicago, MBL)

Past Undergraduate Students

Bradley Buran, B.A. & B.S.
Payal Razdan, B.S.

We are grateful to our former lab manager, Ms. Audrey Rollo, for the design of our lab  logo

 


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