Nicholas Ragsdale, Ph.D.
I am a native Nashvillian who decided to return to Nashville after my undergraduate and graduate studies. I received my B.A, in Psychology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN and a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Tennessee at Memphis. I did post-doctoral work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis in the Department of Infectious Disease. At St. Jude, I studied the molecular mechanism that results in the development of antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
I have been at Belmont University since the summer of 2000. In the past six years, I have taught courses in introductory biology to majors and non-majors, anatomy, and physiology. My goal for these courses is to spark excitement in the introductory courses while furthering knowledge for future studies in the anatomy and physiology lectures. In addition to teaching, I have begun a research program investigating the relationship between stress, the dopaminergic system, and drug addiction. I hope to expand these studies by utilizing the C. elegans model. Finally, I serve as faculty sponsor of Theta Epsilon Tau, the Student Prehealth Association and the Prehealth Advisor for Belmont.
I'd like to contact Dr. Ragsdale.
