Alex Kolodkin | |
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| Spouse |
Maria Rodriguez (m. 1986) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, 1980, Wesleyan University PhD, molecular biology, University of Oregon |
| Thesis | Double strand breaks can initiate meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1987) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Alex Leo Kolodkin is an American neuroscientist. He is the Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
He is known for his work on neuronal guidance cues and their receptors, the discovery of semaphorins, and unveiling guidance cue roles in neural circuit assembly and function in insects and mammals. Kolodkin’s work provides a framework for understanding how a limited number of guidance molecules are capable of sculpting, maintaining, and refining complex neural circuitry.