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Professor Alan Roberts

Professor Alan Roberts

Professor Alan Roberts
BA(Cantab), PhD(Calif)

Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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