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Alex Leo Kolodkin

Alex Leo Kolodkin PhD

Neuroscience
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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Dr. Alex Kolodkin is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research is focused on understanding how neuronal connectivity is established during development. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Kolodkin discovered and cloned the first semaphorin gene in the grasshopper.

More recently, his team decoded the activity of protein signals involved in muscle-nerve connections in fruit flies. His team is investigating how families of invertebrate and vertebrate guidance cues orchestrate neuronal wiring during embryogenesis and later in neural development, using Drosophila and the mouse as model systems.

Dr. Kolodkin received his undergraduate degree in biology from Wesleyan University. He earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology and genetics from the University of Oregon. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kolodkin joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.

He serves on the editorial board of Neuron. His work has been recognized with various awards, including the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
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