Jackie Ogier is an auditory neuroscientist focused on the molecular biology of hair cells, which are the specialised sensory receptors in the ear that detect sound and balance. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of A/Prof Bryony Nayagam, supported by a prestigious Passe and Williams foundation fellowship.

Jackie completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne in 2020, where she investigated the pathogenic mechanisms that underlie hearing loss and identified a novel molecular target for preventing aminoglycoside-induced hearing damage. She performed this research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute under the guidance of A/Prof Paul Lockhart, A/Prof Bryony Nayagam, and Dr Rachel Burt. During this time, Jackie was President of the Research Students Association and a member of the MCRI Honours and Children's Campus Graduate Research Training Committees. For her service to discipline, Jackie was recognised with the MCRI Rising Star award in 2017.

Jackie then undertook post-doctoral training at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (University of Toronto) with Prof Alain Dabdoub, where she optimised the collection, dissection, and culture of donated human cochleae for single cell sequencing. She also received The University of Toronto's Dr Ian Witterick Research Prize in Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery for her continued ototoxicity research. Jackie subsequently established a collaboration between the Universities of Toronto and Melbourne to develop an inner ear in a dish that will accelerate hearing and balance discovery research.

Jackie's experience broadly spans the genetics of hearing loss, micro dissection and primary cell culture, stem cell culture, organoids, and the behavioral testing of animal models. Overall, she aims to generate knowledge of hearing and vestibular sensory biology, and prevent the death of these sensory cells in the ear.

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