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Overview

Eric Frank is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including social sciences and engineering. The primary subfields of study connected to their work encompass computer science applications, education, sociology and political science, transportation, and building and construction.

Their research topics focus on several key areas: teaching and learning programming, education and technology integration, education and digital technologies, transportation planning and optimization, traffic prediction and management techniques, and transportation and mobility innovations.

Eric Frank has contributed to academic literature with publications in the following venues:

  • Education Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Teachers' Perspectives on the Intertwining of Tangible and Digital Modes of Activity with a Drawing Robot for Geometry, 2020, Education Sciences
  • DeeprETA: An ETA Post-processing System at Scale, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors of Eric Frank include:

  • Anna Baccaglini-Frank
  • George Santi
  • Agnese Del Zozzo
  • Xinyu Hu
  • Tanmay Binaykiya

Best Publications

  • ETS Gene Er81 Controls the Formation of Functional Connections between Group Ia Sensory Afferents and Motor Neurons

    Silvia Arber;David R Ladle;Jonathan H Lin;Eric Frank

  • Early events in neuromuscular junction formation in vitro: induction of acetylcholine receptor clusters in the postsynaptic membrane and morphology of newly formed synapses.

    E Frank;G D Fischbach

  • Lineage of neurons and glia in chick dorsal root ganglia: analysis in vivo with a recombinant retrovirus.

    E. Frank;J.R. Sanes

  • Neurotrophin 3 supports the survival of developing muscle sensory neurons in culture

    Freya Hory-Lee;Michelle Russell;Ronald M. Lindsay;Eric Frank

  • Restoration of Visual Function by Enhancing Conduction in Regenerated Axons.

    Fengfeng Bei;Henry Hing Cheong Lee;Xuefeng Liu;Georgia Gunner

  • V1 and V2b Interneurons Secure the Alternating Flexor-Extensor Motor Activity Mice Require for Limbed Locomotion

    Jingming Zhang;Guillermo M. Lanuza;Guillermo M. Lanuza;Olivier Britz;Zhi Wang

  • Pax6 and Engrailed 1 Regulate Two Distinct Aspects of Renshaw Cell Development

    Tamar Sapir;Eric J. Geiman;Zhi Wang;Tomoko Velasquez

  • Development of the monosynaptic stretch reflex circuit

    Hsiao-Huei Chen;Simon Hippenmeyer;Silvia Arber;Eric Frank

  • Formation of Specific Monosynaptic Connections between Muscle Spindle Afferents and Motoneurons in the Mouse

    Simon C. Mears;Eric Frank

  • Development of central projections of lumbosacral sensory neurons in the chick

    Brian M. Davis;Eric Frank;Frances A. Johnson;Sheryl A. Scott

  • A multisomatic axon in the central nervous system of the leech.

    Eric Frank;Jan K. S. Jansen;Eric Rinvik

  • Muscle Spindle-Derived Neurotrophin 3 Regulates Synaptic Connectivity between Muscle Sensory and Motor Neurons

    Hsiao Huei Chen;Warren G. Tourtellotte;Eric Frank

  • Neurotrophin-3 Promotes the Differentiation of Muscle Spindle Afferents in the Absence of Peripheral Targets

    Robert A. Oakley;Frances B. Lefcort;Frances B. Lefcort;Douglas O. Clary;Louis F. Reichardt

  • Lysophosphatidyl choline facilitates labeling of CNS projections with horseradish peroxidase.

    Eric Frank;William A. Harris;Mary B. Kennedy

  • P0 is an early marker of the Schwann cell lineage in chickens.

    Anita Bhattacharyya;Eric Frank;Nancy Ratner;Robert Brackenbury

  • Muscle sensory neurons require neurotrophin-3 from peripheral tissues during the period of normal cell death.

    R.A. Oakley;A.S. Garner;T.H. Large;E. Frank

  • The nicotinic blocking agents d-tubocurare and alpha-bungarotoxin save motoneurons from naturally occurring death in the absence of neuromuscular blockade

    Freya Hory-Lee;E. Frank

  • Persistent restoration of sensory function by immediate or delayed systemic artemin after dorsal root injury.

    Ruizhong Wang;Tamara King;Michael H Ossipov;Anthony J Rossomando

  • Late-migrating neuroepithelial cells from the spinal cord differentiate into sensory ganglion cells and melanocytes.

    Kamal Sharma;Zeljka Korade;Eric Frank

  • Anatomical basis of specific connections between sensory axons and motor neurons in the brachial spinal cord of the bullfrog.

    J. W. Lichtman;Sonal Jhaveri;E. Frank

  • Sensory Neurons: Diversity, Development and Plasticity: edited by Sheryl A. Scott, Oxford University Press, 1992. £70.00 (441 pages) ISBN 0 19 506676 6

    Eric Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber University of Basel
Thomas M. Jessell
Thomas M. Jessell Columbia University
Jonathan A. Raper
Jonathan A. Raper University of Pennsylvania
Louis F. Reichardt
Louis F. Reichardt University of California, San Francisco
David Prevette
David Prevette Wake Forest University
Ronald W. Oppenheim
Ronald W. Oppenheim Wake Forest University

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