Rate My Professor Brad Seebach

Bradley Seebach is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, a position he has held since joining the faculty in 1998 following postdoctoral appointments. Born and raised in northeast Iowa, he earned a B.A. in English Literature from Cornell College in 1983. He then pursued neuroscience, obtaining a Ph.D. in Neural Science from Brown University in 1990 with a dissertation presenting a computational model of neural circuitry and learning processes explaining prenatal development of human speech perception. He completed postdoctoral research in Physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1994 and in Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University until 1998, where his work focused on mammalian spinal cord development, particularly neural circuitry supporting walking.

Seebach's research interests include spinal cord locomotor circuitry investigated via electrophysiology and pharmacological techniques, the glymphatic system of the brain with student projects on gut-brain interactions, and computational studies of system-level neural circuitry modeling emergent properties related to developmental organizing principles in neural tissues. His laboratory engages numerous students in spinal cord development research. Key publications include "Sleep and the gut microbiome: antibiotic-induced depletion of the gut microbiota reduces nocturnal sleep in mice" (2017), "Distinct roles of glycinergic and GABAergic inhibition in coordinating locomotor-like rhythms in the mouse spinal cord" (2005), "NT-3 evokes an LTP-like facilitation of AMPA/Kainate-mediated synaptic transmission in the neonatal rat spinal cord" (2000), and "A model of prenatal acquisition of speech parameters" (1994), contributing to over 450 citations. He teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses such as Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Neurophysiology, Neurobiology Laboratory, Advanced Human Physiology I, Functional Neuroanatomy, Medical Physiology, and Neuroscience Capstone, as well as physiology courses for health professions programs. He advises Biomedical Science Concentrators and Neuroscience students. Seebach served three years as Faculty Senate Chair (2014-2016, 2020-2021) and holds memberships in the Society for Neuroscience and the Institute of Biomolecular Sciences at UW-La Crosse. His specialty areas are Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Medical Physiology.