Dr. Teresa Nicolson

Biography

Teresa Nicolson is a Professor of Otolaryngology at Stanford University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Western Washington University and went on to earn her PhD in Biological Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. After completing her doctoral studies, she trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany. In 1999, she became an independent Group Leader at the institute and was appointed Assistant Professor at the Oregon Hearing Research Center at OHSU in 2003, progressing to Associate Professor in 2005 and full Professor in 2014. An HHMI Investigator from 2005 to 2013, Nicolson joined the Research Division of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at Stanford in 2019. Her research focuses on the molecular basis of hearing and balance, utilizing zebrafish as a model system to investigate the function of genes associated with deafness and the developmental aspects of sensory hair-cell activity and synaptogenesis.

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