Dr William Heitler

Honorary Reader

Researcher profile

Email

wjh@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Biological Sciences; Neuroscience; central pattern; crayfish; Crustacea; escape behaviour; locust jumping; neuronal circuit; neurophysiology; pattern generator ; simulation; c++

Selected publications

• Open access

  Computer simulations of a dynamic sodium pump-mediated hyperpolarization and short-term motor memory in the spinal locomotor network of Xenopus frog tadpoles

  Heitler, W. J., Hachoumi, L., Gamble, A., Zhang, H. & Sillar, K. T., 1 Jan 2026, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 135, 1, p. 165-189

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Inhibitory circuit motifs in Drosophila larvae generate motor program diversity and variability

  Francis, J., Gibeily, C. R., Smith, W. V., Petropoulos, I. S., Anderson, M., Heitler, W. J., Prinz, A. A. & Pulver, S. R., 21 Apr 2025, In: PLoS Biology. 23, 4, p. 1-39 39 p., e3003094.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The neuroethology of predation and escape

  Sillar, K. T., Picton, L. D. & Heitler, W. J., May 2016, Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 392 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The escape behavior of crayfish

  Heitler, W. J., 13 Nov 2014, Crustacean nervous systems and their control of behavior. Derby, C. & Thiel, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 396-427 (Natural history of crustacea).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• How Grasshoppers Jump

  Heitler, W. J., Apr 2012

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• AnimatLab: A 3D graphics environment for neuromechanical simulations.

  Cofer, D., Cymbalyuk, G., Reid, J., Zhu, Y., Heitler, W. J. & Edwards, D., 2010, In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 187, p. 280-288

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Control of tumbling during the locust jump.

  Cofer, D., Cymbalyuk, G., Heitler, W. J. & Edwards, D., 2010, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 213, p. 3378-3387

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Neuromechanical simulation of the locust jump.

  Cofer, D., Cymbalyuk, G., Heitler, W. J. & Edwards, D., 2010, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 213, p. 1060-1068

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Electrical coupling synchronises spinal motoneuron activity during swimming in hatchling Xenopus tadpoles.

  Zhang, H. Y., Li, W., Heitler, W. J. & Sillar, K. T., 2009, In: The Journal of Physiology. 587, p. 4455-4466 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Practical tools for analysing rhythmic neural activity.

  Heitler, W. J., 2009, In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 185, p. 151-164

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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