Allison Coffin
Senior Research Fellow
University of Washington
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center and
The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Seattle, WA 98105

coffina@uw.edu

Biography
Alli received a BS in Marine Biology at the Florida Institute of Technology (1996) and a MS in Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota (1999). She received her Ph.D (2005) in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland. Alli was a Post doctoral Associate at the University of Kingston from 2006-2007 before becoming a Research Fellow at the University of Washington in 2007.

Research Interests
Hair cell death, proliferation, and regeneration

Publications

Coffin AB, Mohr RA, and JA Sisneros. (In Press) Saccular-specific hair cell addition correlates with reproductive state-dependent changes in the auditory saccular sensitivity of a vocal fish. Journal of Neuroscience.

Brown AD, Mussen TD, Sisneros JA, and AB Coffin. 2011. Reevaluating the use of aminoglycoside antibiotics in behavioral studies of the lateral line. Hearing Research 272:1-4.

Coffin AB, Ou H, Owens KN, Santos F, Simon JA, Rubel EW, Raible DW. 2010.Chemical screening for hair cell loss and protection in the zebrafish lateral line. Zebrafish 7:3-11.

Raine JC, Coffin AB, Hawryshyn CW. 2010. Systemic thyroid hormone is necessary and sufficient to induce ultraviolet-sensitive cone loss in the juvenile rainbow trout retina. J Exp Biol. 213:493-501.

Coffin AB, Reinhart KE, Owens KN, Raible DW, Rubel EW. 2009. Extracellular divalent cations modulate aminoglycoside-induced hair cell death in the zebrafish lateral line. Hear Res. 253:42-51.

Owens KN, Coffin AB, Hong LS, Bennett KO, Rubel EW, Raible DW. 2009. Response of mechanosensory hair cells of the zebrafish lateral line to aminoglycosides reveals distinct cell death pathways. Hear Res. 253:32-41.

Owens KN, Santos F, Roberts B, Linbo T, Coffin AB, Knisely AJ, Simon JA, Rubel EW, Raible DW. 2008. Identification of genetic and chemical modulators of zebrafish mechanosensory hair cell death. PLoS Genet. 4:e1000020.

Coffin AB, Dabdoub A, Kelley MW, Popper AN (2007) Myosin VI and VIIa distribution among inner ear epithelia in diverse fishes. Hear. Res. 224:15-26.

Oxman DS, Barnett-Johnson R, Smith M, Coffin A, Miller D, Josephson R, Popper AN (2007) The effect of vaterite depositions on otolith morphology, sound reception, and inner ear sensory epithelia in hatchery-reared Chinook salmon. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 64:1469-1478.

Smith ME*, Coffin AB*, Miller DL, Popper AN (2006) Anatomical and functional recovery of the goldfish (Carassius auratus) ear following noise exposure. J. Exp. Biol. 209:4193 4202.

Coffin AB, Kelley MW, Manley GA, Popper AN (2004) Evolution of sensory hair cells. In: Manley GA, Fay RR, Popper AN (eds) Evolution of the Auditory System. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Coffin AB, Pereira DL, Spangler GR (2003) Stock-specific growth rates of lake herring
(Coregonus artedi) in western Lake Superior. Env. Biol. Fishes 68(1):39-48.

Coffin AB, Higgs DM, Presson JC, Popper AN (2002) Distribution of unconventional
myosins in the zebrafish ear. Bioacoustics 12(2/3): 140-142.

*joint first authors