Picture from last month in Puerto Rico at the #ARO2026 meeting! #VelezLab

What a busy week for the #VelezLab with 2 talks and 4 poster presentations at the 2026 MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in San Juan, PR! #ARO2026

Fig. 1 Gen Z selfie ☺️
Fig. 2 Gen X attempt at Gen Z selfie 😭
#ARO2026 #AROMWM2026 🇵🇷

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Macrophages and neurons respond to excitotoxic injury in a dynamic way! Want to see how? Go see poster T207 this afternoon to find out #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

Hey #ARO2026, today we have a poster on an interesting participant who hears sounds when her eyes move! Board #134 1/

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Cisplatin at sub-lethal doses—hair cells survive, but at what cost? 🤔 Turns out, it triggers permanent changes in mitochondrial morphology and dynamics.
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

On way to #aro2026!

Coastal view of Puerto Rico

No snowcrete #ARO2026

Heading to ARO? Check out postdoc Ruihan Wei's presentation: "Probing Central Vestibular Processing of Prosthetic Input via High-Density Neural Recordings in Freely Moving Nonhuman Primates" (2/7/26 at 3:30 PM) #ARO2026 #vestibular #research

And that's a wrap on #ARO2025. Grateful for the opportunity to give my first international conference talk and for the chance to (re-)connect with an incredible group of researchers.

See you next year in Puerto Rico for #ARO2026.

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