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Name: Barry A Trimmer
Title: Professor of Biology
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences
Departmental Affiliation: Biology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Cambridge University; B.A. Cambridge University
Expertise: Neurobiology: Cellular and Molecular Processes underlying Behavior
E-mail: barry.trimmer@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/trimmer
http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/trimmer
Scholarship & Research: Dorfmann, A., W. A. Woods, Jn., and Trimmer. B. A. 2007 Muscle performance in a soft-bodied terrestrial crawler: constitutive modeling of strain-rate dependency. J. R. Soc. Interface. In press.

Woods, W.A. Jr., Fusillo, S.J. and Trimmer, B.A. Dynamics of caterpillar muscle during strain cycling and simulated natural crawling. Journal of Experimental Biology, in press.

Toto, B. and B. Trimmer, eds. Nitric Oxide. Advances in Experimental Biology, ed. R. Wilson and M. Burrell. Vol. 1. 2007, Society for Experimental Biology. p458.

Trimmer, B.A and Issberner, J.I. (2007) Kinematics of soft-bodied, legged locomotion in Manduca sexta larvae. Biol. Bull. 212: 130-142.

Dorfmann, A., Trimmer. B. A. and W. A. Woods, Jr., (2007). A constitutive model for muscle properties in a soft bodied arthropod. J. R. Soc. Interface 4, 257-269.

Zayas, R.M. and Trimmer, B.A. (2007). Characterization of NO/cGMP-mediated responses in identified motoneurons. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 27, (2) 191-209.

Vermehren, A. and Trimmer, BA (2005) The expression and function of two nicotinic subunits in insect neurons. J. Neurobiol. 62, 289-298.

Trimmer, B.A. (2004) A central pattern generator in pupae of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. In: A laboratory manual for Physiology . Eds. D.M. Silverthorn, B.M. Johnson and A.M. Mills. Benjamin Cummings. In press isbn 0-8053-6007-7, 250 pp.

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