Alan M. Roberts

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{{Infobox scientist

| honorific_prefix = Professor

| name = Alan M. Roberts

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS}}

| birth_name = Alan Madoc Roberts

| image = Alan Madoc Roberts FRS.jpg

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| caption = Roberts in 2015

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|8|24}}{{Who's Who | title=ROBERTS, Prof. Alan Madoc| id =U284067| volume = 2016 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}

| birth_place = Rugby, Warwickshire

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| fields = {{Plainlist|

• Zoology
• Xenopus
• Neuroanatomy
• Electrophysiology{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526092413/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/alan-roberts/about.html|archivedate=2015-05-26|url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/alan-roberts/about.html|title=Alan Roberts Biography|publisher=University of Bristol}}

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| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• University of Bristol
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• University of California, San Diego

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| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• University of Cambridge
• University of California, Los Angeles

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| thesis_title = Recurrent Inhibition in the Giant Fibre System of the Crayfish and its Effect on the Excitability of the Escape Response

| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302225423

| thesis_year = 1967

| doctoral_advisor = Ted Bullock

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• FRS (2015)

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| website = {{URL|bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/alan-roberts}}

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Alan Madoc Roberts (born 1941) is an English academic serving as Emeritus professor of Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.{{Scopus|id=22998362500}}{{Cite journal

| pmid = 24403159

| pmc = 3870938

| year = 2014

| last1 = Roberts

| first1 = A

| title = Can simple rules control development of a pioneer vertebrate neuronal network generating behavior?

| journal = Journal of Neuroscience

| volume = 34

| issue = 2

| pages = 608–21

| last2 = Conte

| first2 = D

| last3 = Hull

| first3 = M

| last4 = Merrison-Hort

| first4 = R

| last5 = Al Azad

| first5 = A. K.

| last6 = Buhl

| first6 = E

| last7 = Borisyuk

| first7 = R

| last8 = Soffe

| first8 = S. R.

| doi = 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3248-13.2014

}}{{Cite journal | pmid = 22393253| pmc = 3424764| year = 2012| last1 = Buhl| first1 = E| title = The role of a trigeminal sensory nucleus in the initiation of locomotion| journal = The Journal of Physiology| volume = 590| issue = Pt 10| pages = 2453–69| last2 = Roberts| first2 = A| last3 = Soffe| first3 = S. R.| doi = 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.227934}}{{Cite journal | pmid = 19282488| year = 2009| last1 = Roberts| first1 = A| title = Responses of hatchling Xenopus tadpoles to water currents: First function of lateral line receptors without cupulae| journal = Journal of Experimental Biology| volume = 212| issue = Pt 7| pages = 914–21| last2 = Feetham| first2 = B| last3 = Pajak| first3 = M| last4 = Teare| first4 = T| doi = 10.1242/jeb.027250| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2009JExpB.212..914R}}