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Andrea Megela Simmons
Professor
Department: Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
Phone: +1 401 863 2283
Phone 2: +1 401 863 3012
Email: Andrea_Simmons@Brown.EDU
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Andrea Megela SimmonsProfessor Department: Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological SciencesPhone: +1 401 863 2283 Phone 2: +1 401 863 3012 Email: Andrea_Simmons@Brown.EDU Location:Hunter Lab, Room 306 - 863-2283Research SummaryLab studies how the nervous system develops, matures, and reorganizes in response to damage. We use frogs as a model system because these animals go through a lengthy larval stage during which their bodies and brains transform to accommodate the transition from an aquatic to an amphibious lifestyle. As adults, frogs can regenerate damaged hair cells and cranial nerves, making them excellent models to understand the molecular bases of how the brain might recover from injury.Past or Present Projects Available:Underwater hearing in anurans; Topography of pitch-encoding neurons in the bullfrog midbrain; Cell morphology in the torus semicircularis of the bullfrog; Histochemistry of the auditory brain stem in tadpoles |
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