Professor Alan Roberts

Professor Alan Roberts
B.A.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(Calif.)

Emeritus Professor

Area of research

How the central nervous system controls locomotion and other behaviour in frog tadpoles

Office 127B
Life Sciences Building,
24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ
(See a map)

a.roberts@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Our strategy is to study a very simple nervous system hoping to understand the basic rules for operation and development. We study the central nervous system of very young Xenopus ...

Biography

After a first degree in Zoology from Trinity College Cambridge where my hero was Hans Lissmann, I spent from 1963 to 1967 doing a Ph.D. on crayfish escape behaviour ...

Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Latest publications

Roberts, A, Borisyuk, R, Buhl, E, Ferrario, A, Koutsikou, S, Li, WC & Soffe, SR, 2019, ‘The decision to move: response times, neuronal circuits and sensory memory in a simple vertebrate’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 286., pp. 20190297
Koutsikou, S, Merrison-Hort, R, Buhl, E, Ferrario, A, Li, W-C, Borisyuk, R, Soffe, SR & Roberts, A, 2018, ‘A simple decision to move in response to touch reveals basic sensory memory and mechanisms for variable response times: Decision to swim’. Journal of Physiology.

School of Biological Sciences

Professor Alan Roberts