Graduate Student or Post-doctoral Fellow with Dr. Deryk Beal – Neurodevelopment of speech motor control

Supervisor: Dr. Deryk BealDr. Deryk Beal, principal investigator and founder of the Speech Neurogenetics Laboratory at the University of Alberta, invites applications for a WCHRI (http://wchri.srv.ualberta.ca/) funded position in the areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, speech motor control and their related underlying genetic contributions.Dr. Beal is interested in advancing our understanding of the genetic and neural contributions to speech motor control in typically developing children and adults as well as children and adults with developmental stuttering and other motor speech disorders. My laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art data acquisition systems, analysis software, and full access to the Peter S. Allen MR Research Centre.Dr. Beal was awarded an innovation grant from the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute to support a PhD student or Postdoctoral Fellow. The Speech Neurogenetics Laboratory provides a rich and multidimensional advanced graduate or post-graduate training program as it is positioned within the Centre for Neuroscience, Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research and Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. Collaborators on current projects span the University of Alberta, Boston University and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital at the University of Ohio.The candidate will be expected to oversee genetic family aggregation, neuroimaging and behavioural motor control experiments as well as to analyze behavioural and functiona...
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