My areas of interest include developmental neurobiology and spinal cord regeneration. The current major thrust in the lab is to determine whether the appropriate development of the vestibular system is dependent on gravity. In the vertebrates, including humans, the vestibular system is the sensory system that transduces gravity into meaningful neurological signals for proper equilibrium orientation. We use zebrafish in our experiments to determine some of the fundamental mechanisms that control development of the vestibular system.