Edited by Karl Kandler, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Karl Kandler is Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was born in Germany where he studied Biology at the University of Regensburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, from which he graduated 1993 with a PhD. From 1993 to 1997, he performed postdoctoral research with Lawrence C. Katz at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University. Since 1998, Dr. Kandler is a faculty in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh investigating the development and plasticity of auditory circuits in the mammalian brain. From 2007 to 2017, he established and directed the auditory research group in the department of otolaryngology at this institution. In addition, Karl Kandler is a faculty member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.
Nichole L. Beebe, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA
Joel I. Berger, University of Nottingham, UK
Ashley Brandebura, West Virginia University, USA
Nell Beatty Cant, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Xiao-Jie Cao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Guillermo V. Carbajal, University of Salamanca & Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research, Spain
Donald M. Caspary, Southern Illinois University, USA
Karina S. Cramer, University of California, Irvine, USA
Mariano N. Di Guilmi, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina
Ana Belen Elgoyhen, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research & University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carles Escera, University of Barcelona, Spain
Felix Felmy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
Eckhard Friauf, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Paul Albert Fuchs, Johns Hopkins University, USA
D.A. Godfrey, University of Toledo, USA
Marcelo Gomez-Alvarez, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Lisa V. Goodrich, Harvard Medical School, USA
Benedikt Grothe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Daniel Heller, West Virginia University, USA
Paul Holcomb, West Virginia University, USA
Laura Hurley, Indiana University, USA
Tetsufumi Ito, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan
Dakota Jackson, West Virginia University, USA
Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Yale University, USA
J.A. Kaltenbach, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Michael R. Kasten, University of North Carolina, USA
Douglas Kolson, West Virginia University, USA
Elisa G. Krachan, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Nina Kraus, Northwestern University, USA
Christian Leibold, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Daniel A. Llano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anna K. Magnusson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Manuel S. Malmierca, University of Salamanca, Spain
Paul B. Manis, University of North Carolina, USA
David T. Martel, University of Michigan, USA
Peter H. Mathers, West Virginia University, USA
Giedre Milinkeviciute, University of California, Irvine, USA
Markus Morawski, University of Leipzig, Germany
Nicolas I.C. Muller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Trent Nicol, Northwestern University, USA
Donata Oertel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Douglas L. Oliver, University of Connecticut, USA
Munenori Ono, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan
Llwyd D. Orton, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Alan R. Palmer, University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Pecka, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Alberto Recio-Spinoso, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Adrian Rees, Newcastle University, UK
Tessa-Jonne F. Ropp, University of North Carolina, USA
Maria E. Rubio, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Brett R. Schofield, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA
Robert V. Shannon, University of Southern California, USA
Susan E. Shore, University of Michigan, USA
Brikha R. Shrestha, Harvard Medical School, USA
Shobhana Sivaramakrishnan, West Virginia University, USA
Mandy Sonntag, University of Leipzig, Germany
George A. Spirou, West Virginia University, USA
Laurence O. Trussell, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Carolina Wedemeyer, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina
Ruili Xie, University of Toledo, USA
