Deputy Director\, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences
Charle
s J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Professor
Dr. Alex Kolodkin is a Pr ofessor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. He hold s the Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Professorship. His research i s focused on understanding how neuronal connectivity is established during development to generate functional circuits. As a postdoctoral fellow\, Dr . Kolodkin discovered the first semaphorin gene in the grasshopper and then determined that semaphorins are a phylogenetically conserved protein famil y from flies to human. At Hopkins\, his laboratory has investigated the rol es played by neuronal guidance cues and their receptors in the regulation o f neuronal guidance cues and their receptors in the regulation of neuronal morphology and the elaboration of neural connectivity in a wide range of ne ural systems\, both in the fruit fly and in mice. His current work is focus ed on understanding mammalian visual system development and function\, and also on investigating how neural connectivity established in the neocortex.
Dr. Kolodkin received his B.A. in Biology and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown CT. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Bio logy and Genetics from the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon in Eugene\, OR. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California\, Berkeley. Dr. Kolodkin joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1995.
Dr. Kolodkin serves on the editorial board of Neuron and on the review boards of several Federal and Private Foundation funding agencies. His work has been recognized with various awards\, including the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neur ological Disorders and Stroke in 2004\, the Pradel Research Award of the Na tional Academy of Sciences in 2016\, and in 2020 he was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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