For a short time while residing in Portland, OR during my final year of graduate school, I was involved in a research collaboration between Laurence Trussell, Ph.D. (Hearing Research Center) and Patrick Roberts, Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) at Oregon Health and Science University. This project involved modeling the electrophysiology of so-called Cartwheel cells using a software package called NEURON. As part of this project, I contributed to some of the computational support for experimental studies of Cartwheel cell complex spiking behavior conducted in the Trussell lab. While my involvement in this project was interrupted by my departure for UMKC in 2010, there may be potential for this collaboration to be rekindled, should one of my capstone students be interested in pursuing a mathematical modeling project in this area.