Elisabeth Glowatzki, Ph.D

Elisabeth Glowatzki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Neuroscience

OFFICE PHONE
410 502-7008

EDUCATION
Diploma in Biology, University of Goettingen, Germany, 1987
Dr. rer. nat., in Zoology (Neuroscience), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1993

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Synaptic transmission in the mammalian inner ear

PRINCIPAL HOSPITAL
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

PUBLICATIONS

Glowatzki, E, Fuchs PA, Cholinergic synaptic inhibition of inner hair cells in the neonatal mammalian cochlea. Science. 2000; 288: 2366-2368.

Glowatzki, E, Fuchs, PA, Transmitter release at the hair cell ribbon synapse. Nature Neuroscience. 2002; (5)2:147-154.

Goutman, JD, Glowatzki, E, Time course and calcium dependence of transmitter release at a single ribbon synapse. PNAS 2007; 104 (41):16341-16346.

Tritsch, NX, Yi, E, Gale, JE, Glowatzki, E, Bergles, DE. The origin of spontaneous activity in the developing auditory system. Nature 2007, 450:50-55.

Seal, RP, Akil, O, Yi, E, Weber, CM, Grant, L, Yoo, J, Clause, A, Kandler, K, Noebels, JL, Glowatzki, E, Lustig LR, Edwards, RH, Sensorineural deafness and seizures in mice lacking vesicular glutamate transporter 3. Neuron 2008, 57(2):263-75.

Martinez-Monedero, R, Yi, E, Oshima, K, Glowatzki, E, Edge, ASB Differentiation of inner ear stem cells to functional sensory neurons. Developmental Biology 2008; 68(5):669-84.

Weisz C, Glowatzki E, Fuchs P. The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents. Nature 2009; 461(7267):1126-9.

Grant L, Yi E, Glowatzki E. Two modes of release shape the postsynaptic response at the inner hair cell ribbon synapse. Journal of Neuroscience 2010, 30(12):4210-4220.

Yi E, Roux I, Glowatzki E. Dendritic HCN channels shape excitatory postsynaptic potentials at the inner hair cell afferent synapse in the mammalian cochlea. Journal of Neurophysiol 2010; 103(5):2532-43.

Grant, L, Yi, E, Goutman, JD, Glowatzki, E (2010) Postsynaptic recordings at afferent dendrites contacting cochlear inner hair cells: monitoring multivesicular release at a ribbon synapse. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2011; 48. pii:2442.doi:10.3791/2442.