The Callier Center for Communication Disorders, in affiliation with the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UT Dallas, provides outstanding opportunities for research in clinical and associated basic aspects of communication sciences and disorders. The Callier Center’s two locations (in Dallas adjacent to UT Southwestern Medical Center, and on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson) house state-of-the-art research laboratories where interdisciplinary translational research is performed. The Callier Center also houses outpatient clinics and programs that serve adults and children with a variety of speech, language, and hearing disorders. A research participant registry facilitates seamless interactions between clinical and research arms.
Research programs housed at the Callier Center broadly investigate speech and language development and disorders, as well as hearing loss and its prevention. Callier post-docs have the flexibility to design individually-tailored programmatic research training plans that leverage multi-disciplinary collaborations. Example opportunities involve study of neurological and behavioral correlates of typical and atypical language development, including bilingualism and effects of poverty (Evans, Maguire, Lee, Su), neurologically based language and psychiatric disorders in adults (Behroozmand, Hart, Lee), neuroscience of speech and voice, including sensorimotor biomarkers (Behroozmand, Shembel), and understanding and treating neurodevelopmental language disorders, including autism and developmental language disorder (Evans, Lee, Rollins, Stillman, Su). In the hearing domain, areas of opportunity encompass the neurobiology of hearing and hearing disorders (Jahn, Lobarinas, Le Prell, Shoup) and auditory rehabilitation (Thibodeau, Warner-Czyz). For more information visit our website at https://calliercenter.utdallas.edu/
Callier Postdoctoral Fellows are invited to collaborate with Neuroscience and Psychology faculty located at the UT Dallas Center for Brain Health, the UT Dallas Center for Children and Families, the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity, as well as those at the UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and hospitals, clinics, schools, and rehabilitation facilities in the North Texas area.
Callier Postdoctoral Fellows receive two years of full‐time support to develop a program of independent research in communication sciences and disorders. The successful candidate will identify one or more SLH faculty mentors affiliated with the Callier Center and will collaboratively establish a research and training plan to guide their experience. Fellows are appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with a 12-month salary of approximately $56,500, a comprehensive benefits package, and financial support for travel and research supplies. Expected start date is August 1, 2024.
Requirements include a doctoral degree in a relevant field and a record of scholarly productivity. Preference will be given to applicants whose research has translational potential and that will benefit from the Callier Center’s unique resources. The position is predominantly research, but Callier Postdoctoral Fellows have some responsibilities associated with the interdisciplinary translational Callier Clinical Research Center.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a one-page cover letter that specifies the applicant’s research plan and a potential mentor, up to three scholarly publications, and three letters of recommendation to: https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/24529. For more information, please contact Angela Shoup, PhD at angela.shoup@utdallas.edu or go to calliercenter.utdallas.edu/research/. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.
The University of Texas at Dallas is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, age, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation.
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Kirupa Suthakar, PhD - Dr Kirupa Suthakar is a postdoctoral fellow at NIH/NIDCD, having formerly trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and doctoral student at Garvan Institute of Medical Research/UNSW Australia. Kirupa's interest in the mind and particular fascination by how we are able to perceive the world around us led her to pursue a research career in auditory neuroscience. To date, Kirupa's research has broadly focused on neurons within the auditory efferent circuit, which allow the brain to modulate incoming sound signals at the ear. Kirupa is active member of the spARO community, serving as the Chair Elect for 2021.
Charles C. Della Santina, PhD MD is a Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Implant Center and the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Laboratory.
Andrew Griffith received his MD and PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1992. He completed his general surgery internship and a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1998. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Human Genetics as part of his training at the University of Michigan. In 1998, he joined the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). He served as a senior investigator, the chief of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Section, the chief of the Otolaryngology Branch, and the director of the DIR, as well as the deputy director for Intramural Clinical Research across the NIH Intramural Research Program. His research program identifies and characterizes molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal and disordered hearing and balance in humans and mouse models. Two primary interests of his program have been hearing loss associated with enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct, and the function of TMC genes and proteins. The latter work lead to the discovery that the deafness gene product TMC1 is a component of the hair cell sensory transduction channel. Since July of 2020, he has served as the Senior Associate Dean of Research and a Professor of Otolaryngology and Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Gwenaëlle S. G. Géléoc obtained a PhD in Sensory Neurobiology from the University of Sciences in Montpellier (France) in 1996. She performed part of her PhD training at the University of Sussex, UK where she characterized sensory transduction in vestibular hair cells and a performed a comparative study between vestibular and cochlear hair cells. Gwenaelle continued her training as an electrophysiologist at University College London studying outer hair cell motility and at Harvard Medical School studying modulation of mechanotransduction in vestibular hair cells. As an independent investigator at the University of Virginia, she expanded this work and characterized the developmental acquisition of sensory transduction in mouse vestibular hair cells, the developmental acquisition of voltage-sensitive conductances in vestibular hair cells and the tonotopic gradient in the acquisition of sensory transduction in the mouse cochlea. This work along with quantitative spatio-temporal studies performed on several hair cell mechanotransduction candidates lead her to TMC1 and 2 and long-term collaborations with Andrew Griffith and Jeff Holt. Dr. Géléoc is currently Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, at Boston Children’s Hospital where she continues to study molecular players involved in the development and function of hair cells of the inner ear and develops new therapies for the treatment of deafness and balance, with a particular focus on Usher syndrome.
Jeff Holt earned a doctorate from the Department of Physiology at the University of Rochester in 1995 for his studies of inward rectifier potassium channels in saccular hair cells. He went on to a post-doctoral position in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he characterized sensory transduction and adaptation in hair cells and developed a viral vector system to transfect cultured hair cells. Dr. Holt’s first faculty position was in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Virginia. In 2011 the lab moved to Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Dr. Holt is currently a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurology in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center. Dr. Holt and his team have been studying sensory transduction in auditory and vestibular hair cells over the past 20 years, with particular focus on TMC1 and TMC2 over the past 12 years. This work lead to the discovery that TMC1 forms the hair cell transduction channel. His work also focuses on development gene therapy strategies for genetic hearing loss.
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