Brian L Frost, PhD

Hello! I'm Brian Lance Frost, a postdoctoral scientist at the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience (principal investigator A. James Hudspeth). I study the mechanisms that underly the sense of hearing from theoretical and experimental perspectives. I am also an adjunct professor of mathematics at the Cooper Union. This site hosts posts about my current research, publications and personal projects. There is also a blog regarding my studies of the Japanese language. Enjoy!

Email: bfrost@rockefeller.edu
Doctoral Thesis: Available as a PDF.

Publication Alert! Lineal Motion in the OHC-DC Junction - March 3, 2025

The Hearing Research special edition containing work discussed at Mechanics of Hearing 2025 is out, and our work on 2-D Outer Hair Cell-Deiters Cell junction motion made it in! The paper is primarily about a model, backed by a few 2-D motion recordings made using the method from our 2023 JASA paper, in which the OHCs may drive motion along a straight line rather than a non-degenerate ellipse in the longitudinal-transverse plane. Read it here! Or download as a PDF.

Publication Alert! Multi-Author OCT Review Article - December 4, 2024

A new, large multi-author paper was released yesterday covering various applications of OCT to cochlear micromechanics. Yours truly is an author of section 2.5, "Two issues arising from the uni-directional optical axis, and how to account for them." I am very happy that my work was considered substantial enough to merit inclusion in this publication! Read it here! Or download as a PDF.

New Site Launch - October 1, 2024

I've moved my site over from one hosted on Wix, a website-building and hosting platform, to one (very obviously) created by myself. The 1990s web vibe is an aesthetic choice, I promise! My apologies for the lack of content as I continue to build up the site.