Charles J. Homcy and
Simeon G. Margolis Professor
Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscie
nce
Vice Chair of Faculty\, Department of Neuroscience
Deputy Dir
ector Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Kavli Neuroscience Discov
ery Institute
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Alex Kolo dkin is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Scien ces. He holds the Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Professorship. Hi s research is focused on understanding how neuronal connectivity is establi shed during development to generate functional circuits. As a postdoctoral fellow\, Dr. Kolodkin discovered the first semaphorin gene in the grasshop per and then determined that semaphorins are a phylogenetically conserved p rotein family from flies to human. At Hopkins\, his laboratory has investig ated the roles played by neuronal guidance cues and their receptors in the regulation of neuronal guidance cues and their receptors in the regulation of neuronal morphology and the elaboration of neural connectivity in a wide range of neural systems\, both in the fruit fly and in mice. His current w ork is focused on understanding mammalian visual system development and fun ction\, and also on investigating how neural connectivity established in th e neocortex.
Dr. Kolodkin received his B.A. in Biology and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown CT. He earned his Ph.D. in M olecular Biology and Genetics from the Institute of Molecular Biology at th e University of Oregon in Eugene\, OR. He completed his postdoctoral fellow ship at the University of California\, Berkeley. Dr. Kolodkin joined the Jo hns Hopkins faculty in 1995.
Dr. Kolodkin serves on the editorial boa rd of Neuron and on the review boards of several Federal and Private Founda tion funding agencies. His work has been recognized with various awards\, i ncluding the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Insti tute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in 2004\, the Pradel Research Awa rd of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016\, and in 2020 he was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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