Daphne Soares’s (NACS '02), discovery of Dome Pressure Receptors, pressure-detecting mounds that enable crocodilians to detect movement of prey in water, appears in Nature. | Research Topics |

Catherine Carr

Position: Professor
Departments: Biology
Affiliations: Department of Biology, UMD
Lab: Carr Lab
http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/faculty/carr/
Research Areas: Auditory Neuroscience, Neuroethology
Research Levels: Systems Neuroscience, Cell/Molecular Neuroscience, Theory and Computational Modeling
Research Approaches: Animal Behavior, Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy, Theory/Modeling
Research Note: Current research is focused both on models of delay line-coincidence detector circuit, and on the assembly of the map of sound location during development of the barn owl. All projects develop from initial behavioral observations into systems, cellular and molecular levels of analysis.
NACS Status: Regular
Contact: 4227 Biology/Psychology
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-2085
cecarr@umd.edu
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~cecarr/

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