Goodbye Sanjee and Francesco!

It is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to Dr Sanjee Abeytunge and Dr Francesco Gianoli. They were the lab’s first members and have done some great work with us!

The preprint for Sanjee’s work on rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair cells by photonic pressure can be found on bioRxiv!

We also recall Francesco’s work on ion channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction and his work on the development of cooperative channels to explain the maturation of the hair-cell’s mechanotransduction

Sanjee will move on to become Senior Optical Engineer at QinetiQ-US and Francesco has accepted a position with the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University with Prof A.J. Hudspeth. We wish them both the best of luck!