| Citation | Professor Alan Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
Alan Roberts is a distinguished electrophysiologist, neuroanatomist and student of animal behaviour. His sustained investigation of the circuitry that underlies behaviour in amphibian tadpoles has transformed our understanding of a spinal network generating rhythmic movement and its regulation by sensory and descending inputs. Inspired by Coghill to work with simple networks in an embryonic vertebrate, his detailed cell by cell analysis provides unique insights into the developmental origins of connectivity and its functional significance. He and his coworkers have laid essential foundations on which current investigators build, using molecular and genetic techniques not available to Roberts in his pioneering studies.
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