Richard Simerly, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Louise B. McGavok Chair in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- : richard.simerly@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-7030
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747 Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232
Academic Interests: We study how environmental factors, such as nutrition and hormones, impact the development of neural circuits that control behavior and metabolism in order to better understand how early events in an individual’s life influence traits like feeding and metabolic physiology.