Gwenaëlle S. Géléoc, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Research
Department of Neuroscience &
Department of Otolaryngology
Education
Ph.D., 1996, Université de Montpellier II (France)
1996-1999, Postdoctorate, University College London, UK
1999-2001, Postdoctorate, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
I was introduced to hair cell physiology in the fall of 1991 when I joined the lab of Alain Sans to do a masters research project (Diplôme d'études appliquées) at the Université de Montpellier in the south of France. For my PhD thesis, I collaborated with Corne Kros and Guy Richardson (at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK). We developed an organotypic culture of the mouse utricle and studied mechano-electrical transduction on an experimental setup that allowed us to monitor bundle displacements while measuring transduction currents (Géléoc et al., 1997). I studied outer hair cell motility during a post-doc under the supervision of Jonathan Ashmore at the University College London. I discovered that non-linear capacitance associated with electro-mechanical transduction could be modulated by sugar transport into the cell (Géléoc et al., 1999). During my second post-doc with David Corey (Harvard Medical School, Boston) I returned to the study of mechano-electrical transduction, this time analyzing its modulation via protein kinase A. I am currently an associate professor, at the University of Virginia where I share a lab with Jeff Holt. I am still captivated by hair cell physiology and mechanosensitivity and am focused on two aspects: 1- Development of transduction and adaptation in sensory hair cells of the inner ear; 2- Hair cell physiology during the maturation of inner ear.
For more info see my departmental webpage:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/neurosci/Faculty/Geleoc/geleoc.cfm
Contact information
Email: gg3h@virginia.edu
Office: (434) 243-9942
Lab: (434) 243-9499
Fax: (434) 982-4380
Mailing Address
University of Virginia
Department of Neuroscience
Box 801392
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Delivery Address
University of Virginia
409 Lane Rd
MR4 Building, Room 5126
Charlottesville, VA 22908
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