Aravind Chenrayan Govindaraju Email & Phone Number

I am a graduate student in the Applied Physics Program at Rice University and affiliated with the Bioengineering department.My research at the Raphael Lab focuses on the study of the sensory epithelia of the vestibular inner ear, particularly the vestibular hair-cell-calyx synapse found in semi-circular canal cristae and the maculae of the otolith organs. Using COMSOL, I’m developing a computational model of signal transmission at the vestibular type I synapse to understand it's role in encoding head motion. I am also interested in using optical coherence tomography to image the mouse vestibular system to better understand changes in morphology which occur during conditions such as Meniere's disease.