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Clifton Ragsdale

  • Title: Professor of Neurobiology and Organismal Biology
  • Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 1994
  • cragsdale@uchicago.edu

Clifton Ragsdale

Clifton Ragsdale, PhD, is a neurobiologist who is interested in the evolutionary biology of brain organization and development, including how the neurons and circuits of the vertebrate central nervous system develop. The Ragsdale laboratory studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the proliferation, migration and differentiation of embryonic brain cells.

Prof. Ragsdale's laboratory major focus is to bring the modern advances in neuroscience, molecular cell biology and genetic manipulation in the study of octopus biology.

 

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Neurobiology, Cephalopods, Octopus

Ragsdale Stories

Octopus Genome Offers Insights Into One Of Ocean's Cleverest Oddballs

Doctoral student Caroline Albertin and Assoc. Prof. Clifton Ragsdale lead team in landmark sequencing of octopus genome


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