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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alex L. Kolodkin is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans several domains within neuroscience and molecular biology, with a focus on cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Their main fields of study are Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Neuroscience, and Neurology.

Their research topics include:

  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ

Recent publications by Alex L. Kolodkin cover various aspects of neurobiology and cellular signaling. Notable papers include:

  • Central nervous system regeneration, 2022, Cell
  • MICAL1 constrains cardiac stress responses and protects against disease by oxidizing CaMKII, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Revisiting and refining roles of neural guidance cues in circuit assembly, 2020, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • The transcription factor Tbx5 regulates direction-selective retinal ganglion cell development and image stabilization, 2022, Current Biology
  • Framework for advancing rigorous research, 2020, eLife

Frequent publication venues where Alex L. Kolodkin's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • eLife
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Experimental Neurology

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Sriram Sudarsanam
  • Jakub Žiak
  • Randal Hand
  • Luis Guzman-Clavel
  • John L Hunyara

Throughout their career, Alex L. Kolodkin has received several recognitions, including membership and fellowships in prominent scientific organizations:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2020
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

  • Neuropilin is a semaphorin III receptor.

    Alex L. Kolodkin;Dorothy V. Levengood;Erica G. Rowe;Yu Tzu Tai

  • The semaphorin genes encode a family of transmembrane and secreted growth cone guidance molecules

    Alex L. Kolodkin;David J. Matthes;Corey S. Goodman

  • Signaling at the growth cone: ligand-receptor complexes and the control of axon growth and guidance.

    Andrea B. Huber;Alex L. Kolodkin;David D. Ginty;Jean François Cloutier

  • Neuropilin-1 Conveys Semaphorin and VEGF Signaling during Neural and Cardiovascular Development

    Chenghua Gu;E. Rene Rodriguez;Dorothy V. Reimert;Tianzhi Shu

  • Mechanisms and Molecules of Neuronal Wiring: A Primer

    Alex L. Kolodkin;Marc Tessier-Lavigne;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • Sernaphorin III can function as a selective chemorepellent to pattern sensory projections in the spinal cord

    Elizabeth K Messersmith;E.David Leonardo;Carla J Shatz;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • Semaphorin 7A promotes axon outgrowth through integrins and MAPKs

    R. Jeroen Pasterkamp;Jacques J. Peschon;Melanie K. Spriggs;Alex L. Kolodkin

  • Semaphorin 3E and plexin-D1 control vascular pattern independently of neuropilins.

    Chenghua Gu;Yutaka Yoshida;Jean Livet;Dorothy V. Reimert

  • Neuropilin-2 Is Required In Vivo for Selective Axon Guidance Responses to Secreted Semaphorins

    Roman J. Giger;Jean François Cloutier;Amar Sahay;Rabinder K. Prinjha

  • Fasciclin IV: Sequence, expression, and function during growth cone guidance in the grasshopper embryo

    Alex L. Kolodkin;David J. Matthes;Timothy P. O'Connor;Nipam H. Patel

  • Semaphorin 5A is a bifunctional axon guidance cue regulated by heparan and chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans.

    David B. Kantor;Onanong Chivatakarn;Katherine L. Peer;Stephen F. Oster

  • Semaphorin Regulation of Cellular Morphology

    Tracy S. Tran;Alex L. Kolodkin;Rajnish Bharadwaj

  • Neuropilin-2 Is a Receptor for Semaphorin IV Insight into the Structural Basis of Receptor Function and Specificity

    Roman J Giger;Erica Rowe Urquhart;Susan K.H Gillespie;Dorothy V Levengood

  • Unified nomenclature for the semaphorins/collapsins [1]

    J. A. Bamberg;S. Baumgartner;H. Betz;J. Bolz

  • MICALs, a Family of Conserved Flavoprotein Oxidoreductases, Function in Plexin-Mediated Axonal Repulsion

    Jonathan R. Terman;Tianyi Mao;R. Jeroen Pasterkamp;Hung Hsiang Yu;Hung Hsiang Yu

  • Sculpting Neural Circuits by Axon and Dendrite Pruning

    Martin M. Riccomagno;Alex L. Kolodkin

  • Semaphorin junction: making tracks toward neural connectivity.

    R Jeroen Pasterkamp;Alex L Kolodkin

  • Semaphorin 7A initiates T-cell-mediated inflammatory responses through α1β1 integrin

    Kazuhiro Suzuki;Tatsusada Okuno;Midori Yamamoto;R. Jeroen Pasterkamp

  • Patterning of Cortical Efferent Projections by Semaphorin-Neuropilin Interactions

    Franck Polleux;Roman J. Giger;David D. Ginty;Alex L. Kolodkin

  • Characterization of neuropilin-1 structural features that confer binding to semaphorin 3A and vascular endothelial growth factor 165

    Chenghua Gu;Brian J. Limberg;G. Brian Whitaker;Ben Perman

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Ginty
David D. Ginty Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Corey S. Goodman
Corey S. Goodman University of California, Berkeley
R. Jeroen Pasterkamp
R. Jeroen Pasterkamp Utrecht University
Roman J. Giger
Roman J. Giger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Xaira Therapeutics
Chenghua Gu
Chenghua Gu Harvard University
Neal S. Peachey
Neal S. Peachey Cleveland Clinic
Amar Sahay
Amar Sahay Harvard University

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