Profile for Bradley Seebach

Brief biography

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in neurophysiology, human anatomy and physiology, and advanced physiology courses for the Department of Biology, and for several programs in the Department of Health Professions. I have been very involved in faculty governance of UW-La Crosse in recent years, including three years as the UW-La Crosse Faculty Senate Chair (2014-2016, 2020-2021). I joined the faculty of the Biology Department at UW-La Crosse in 1998, after completing postdoctoral research appointments at Stony Brook University (Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior) and UW-Madison (Dept. of Physiology). My postdoctoral research focused on the development of the mammalian spinal cord, and especially on the formation of neural circuitry that supports walking. My Ph.D. in Neuroscience was awarded by Brown University in 1990, and my dissertation research focused on a computational model of neural circuitry and learning processes that could explain the prenatal development of aspects of human speech perception. I had entered graduate school in the Linguistics program at Brown University and transferred into the newly-created Neuroscience program at Brown in 1987. As I was born and raised in northeast Iowa, being hired at UW-La Crosse was a return to my roots. My undergraduate degree was awarded by Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa (1983) in English Literature. I focused on Shakespearian-era literature (still a great love of mine), though this came after several years of coursework in chemical engineering and computer sciences.