UCA professor teaches seminar at U. of Memphis

Barbara Clancy, an associate professor in Biology at UCA, today is presenting an invited seminar at the University of Memphis entitled, “Of Mice and Monkeys and Men ? What Might Translations From Experimental Species Tell Us About Human Brain Development?”

Her talk will describe the value and implications of a model and website (www.translatingtime.net), published earlier this year in the journal Neuroinformatics, where brain development can be “translated” from experimental species to humans. The site was developed with two former UCA undergraduates, Brandon Kersh and James Hyde, and with collaborators at Cornell University.

The web site has already been accessed almost 10,000 times by approximately 4000 visitors from universities, medical centers, and hospitals in 40 states and 31 different countries. The International Society for Neuroscience?s Neuroinformatics Committee recently accepted it to be linked from their national site.