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Living cells are dynamic—transporting components inside, changing their shape, and locomoting. In the central nervous system, this dynamic behavior establishes, maintains and modifies neuronal connections. We use a range of microscopic imaging and molecular techniques to understand the mechanisms of these dynamics using model systems, including squid giant axon, transport of Herpes simplex virus, and human blood platelets. These studies address fundamental questions pertaining to learning and memory. I also direct a medical clerkship in Guatemala, and hold an appointment as a composer in the Music Department. Please see the links below my photo for more information. Overview | Research | Grants/Awards | Teaching | Publications
As a biomedical scientist/engineer and a composer of music, I have long been fascinated by the similarity in the way scientists and musicians conceptualize. Each pays specific, focused and sustained attention at a high level of detail to perceptual experience, and applies logic to analyze and recreate quantal events occurring over time. My early education was exclusively in music, which I studied at Carnegie Tech, with Nadia Boulanger, and in New York, with an interest in computer "algorhythms" to generate sound. Beyond the mechanics of acoustical perception, of interest to both biomechanical engineers and musicians, also lies the conceptual process linking detailed attention to generative creativity. I work and live at this interface.
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 ELAINE BEARER, MD, PHD http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Elaine_Bearer On The Web: My music page Guatemala Project Herpes virus retrograde transport in the squid axon Are you Elaine Bearer? Click here to edit your research profile. |
