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William B. Kristan, Jr. is an American biologist, currently the Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.[1][2]

He was awarded a Ph.D by the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He was awarded a 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fellow of the University of Bielefeld, Germany.[3]

His interests are in the behaviour of neuronal networks and their creation during embryogenesis. using a variety of advanced techniques to examine the circuits in the relatively controllable nervous system of the medicinal leech. [3]

References

  1. ^ "William B. Kristan, Jr". ucsd.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  2. ^ "Kristan Lab". ucsd.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "William Kristan". UC San Diego. Retrieved 3 January 2019.