How to construct a synapse
Thomas Südhof - Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and (by courtesy) of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Südhof’s laboratory studies how synapses form in the brain, how their properties are specified, and how they accomplish the rapid and precise signaling that forms the basis for all information processing by the brain.
Research News
Tackle opioid addictions at the onset, the doctor’s office, Stanford researchers urge
April 30, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
In a JAMA opinion piece, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gary Peltz and Tom Sudhof argue for...
Nerve cells actively repress alternative cell fates
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A regulatory protein blocks the expression of non-neuronal genes in nerve cells, find Bio-X...
New study hints at why infamous gene variant increases odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease
January 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Tom Südhof and Marius Wernig have established a connection that may help explain why...