WHAT: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Deaf Fish: What Fish Can Teach Us About Hearing Loss, with Phil Uribe (WSU Vancouver) and Kimberly Cordray (Portland State University)
WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2015, 6 – 8pm
WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR
Hearing is among our most critical senses, yet hearing loss affects 48 millions Americans. Phil Uribe, a graduate student in Neuroscience from WSU Vancouver, is working to discover how hearing loss happens and investigate ways to prevent it. To do this Phil researches fish that possess the same hearing cells (called “hair cells”) that allow us to hear.
Kimberly Cordray is an art practices major at Portland State University, with a keen interest in neuroscience and art. She has created pieces inspired by the neuron drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, and is currently exploring the impact of sound on visual aspects of art.
Join Phil and Kimberly at Velo Cult for an evening of acoustic investigation and art!
Great beer, cider, sodas, coffee and tea available for purchase ($1/pint sold will support undergraduate attendance at the Oregon/SW Washington Society for Neuroscience chapter meeting in Spring, 2016).