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Barbara Clancy
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Associate Professor
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UAMS |
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Natural Science and Mathematics |
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barbaraclancy AT mac.com |
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http://www.translatingtime.net/ |
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501-450-3210 |
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501-908-1451 |
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Research interests include: Modeling neurodevelopmental time across experimental animals and humans.
Because the timing of neural events in developing brains follows a strikingly similar pattern, regression theory can be used to mathematically model and compare the timing of cross-species development, including humans. Collaborators include experts in neurodevelopment, evolution, statistics and computer science from Cornell University in New York and three universities in Arkansas, including faculty participants in the Bioinformatics Graduate Program formed by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at UALR (MBC) and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Our current project involves incorporating cross species data into a computer program that is able to generate cross-species neural comparisons and predictions via an interactive web site.
My lab also studies a little-known group of brain cells called persisting subplate neurons. We utilize correlated light and fluorescent microscopy, and confocal microscopy, to compare data on subplate distribution, shape, size, dendritic patterns and spine location across development and aging in the rodent cortex.
| Please Note: Because the form required information on "university", I put UAMS, as I am an adjunct professor there in Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences.
I currently serve as the outside member on the PhD thesis committee for Upasana Saini. Marico Howe and I have proposed a rotation for her in my lab in anticipation of her collaboration on an upcoming grant proposal.
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