Megan Beers Wood
Assistant Professor
Education:
Postdoc, 2018- 2023, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)
Postdoc, 2016 – 2018, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN)
Ph.D. 2016, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
B.S., 2010, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Biography:
Dr. Beers Wood combines her training in immunology with her postdocs in auditory neuroscience to study basic mechanisms of hearing. Her laboratory, the Hearing Response Mechanisms through Observations of Neuro-Immunity in the Cochlea (HARMONIC) Laboratory, uses a combination of techniques including fluorescent imaging, flow cytometry, and deep neural network analysis of facial grimace and movement to understand how the immune system and neurons of the cochlea interact after exposure to loud noise. The long-term goal of Dr. Beers Wood’s research is to develop interventions to prevent or treat noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) or NIHL associated conditions such as hyperacusis.
NCBI link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/lara.wood.1/bibliography/public/
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7405-8067