Alan M. Roberts Explained
| Alan Roberts |
| Birth Name: | Alan Madoc Roberts |
| Birth Date: | 1941 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Rugby, Warwickshire |
| Thesis Title: | Recurrent Inhibition in the Giant Fibre System of the Crayfish and its Effect on the Excitability of the Escape Response |
| Thesis Url: | http://search.proquest.com/docview/302225423 |
| Thesis Year: | 1967 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ted Bullock |
Alan Madoc Roberts (born 1941)FRS is an English academic serving as Emeritus professor of Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.[1] [2] [3]
Education
Roberts was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences (Zoology) at Trinity College, Cambridge. He went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1967 for research supervised by Theodore Holmes Bullock on the escape response of Crayfish.[4]
Awards and honours
Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[5] His certificate of election reads:
Notes and References
- 24403159. 3870938. 2014. Roberts. A. Can simple rules control development of a pioneer vertebrate neuronal network generating behavior?. Journal of Neuroscience. 34. 2. 608–21. Conte. D. Hull. M. Merrison-Hort. R. Al Azad. A. K.. Buhl. E. Borisyuk. R. Soffe. S. R.. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3248-13.2014.
- 22393253. 3424764. 2012. Buhl. E. The role of a trigeminal sensory nucleus in the initiation of locomotion. The Journal of Physiology. 590. Pt 10. 2453–69. Roberts. A. Soffe. S. R.. 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.227934.
- 19282488. 2009. Roberts. A. Responses of hatchling Xenopus tadpoles to water currents: First function of lateral line receptors without cupulae. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212. Pt 7. 914–21. Feetham. B. Pajak. M. Teare. T. 10.1242/jeb.027250. free.
- PhD . Alan Madoc. Roberts . Recurrent Inhibition in the Giant Fibre System of the Crayfish and its Effect on the Excitability of the Escape Response . University of California, Los Angeles . 1967 . 20830525. .
- Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117101438/https://royalsociety.org/people/alan-roberts-12193/. 2015-11-17. Professor Alan Roberts FRS. Royal Society. London.
