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Professor Alan Roberts
Professor of Zoology
Emeritus Professor
Professor Alan Roberts
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Professor Alan Roberts
BA(Cantab), PhD(Calif)
Professor of Zoology
Emeritus Professor
Area of research
How the central nervous system controls locomotion and other behaviour in frog tadpoles
University of Bristol,
Woodland Road,
Bristol
BS8 1UG
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 7488
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 ...
Latest publications
- Winlove, CIP & Roberts, A. ‘Pharmacology of currents underlying the different firing patterns of spinal sensory neurons and interneurons identified in vivo using multivariate analysis’, Journal of Neurophysiology, 105, (pp. 2487-2500), 2011
- Borisyuk,R, al Azad, AK, Conte, D, Roberts, A & Soffe, SR. ‘Modeling the connectome of a simple spinal cord’, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 5:20, 2011
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