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Wed 20th November 2013 Dr. Foster is selected as President of the Baltimore Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.
Dr. Foster is selected as President of the Baltimore Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. ... -
Wed 20th November 2013 Cara Altimus wins first place honors
Cara Altimus, a Postdoc in the Foster lab, wins 1st place in the Society for Neuroscience Baltimore Chapter Poster competition. ... -
Fri 1st November 2013 The Kolodkin lab reports in Science
The Kolodkin lab reports in Science that signaling between the transmembrane guidance cue semaphorin 6A (Sema6A) and its receptor plexinA2 (PlexA2) regulates dendritic morphology of On, but not Off, starburst amacrine cells, thereby controlling direction-selective responses to visual stimuli in the mouse. Direction-selective responses to visual cues depend upon precise connectivity between inhibitory starburst amacrine cells (SACs) and direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs). Mot...