Franck Polleux, Ph.D.
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Department of Neuroscience
- Institution
- Columbia University, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Kavli Institute for Brain Science
- Address
-
Jerome L. Greene Science Center
3227 Broadway, L-5-050, MC 9853 - City, State, ZIP
- New York, NY 10027
- Phone
- (212) 342-4413
- [email protected]
- Website
- http://www.columbia.edu/~fp2304
- Research field
- Neuroscience
- Award year
- 2005
Research
Our lab is studying the developmental mechanisms patterning connections in the cerebral cortex. We are specifically interested in identifying the signaling pathways controlling three important and inter-related aspects of cortical neurons differentiation: migration, axon pathfinding and dendritic differentiation. In order to analyze the role of specific signaling pathways in the specification of cortical connectivity, we are combining a wide array of molecular and cellular approaches such as: (1) biochemistry and proteomics, (2) time-lapse confocal microscopy, (3) calcium-imaging, (4) ex vivo and in utero electroporation, (5) in vitro co-culture assays and (6) analysis of mice presenting targeted gene deletion or promoter-driven GFP expressing mice.
Scholar Keywords
2005 Search Pew Scholars
- Gonçalo R. Abecasis, D.Phil.
- Stephen A. Baccus, Ph.D.
- Craig H. Bassing, Ph.D.
- Laura M. Calvi, M.D.
- Shane P. Crotty, Ph.D.
- Jenny E. Gumperz, Ph.D.
- Martin W. Hetzer, Ph.D.
- Karin M. Hoffmeister, M.D.
- Deborah A. Hogan, Ph.D.
- Soo-Kyung Lee, Ph.D.
- Katsuhiko Murakami, Ph.D.
- Franck Polleux, Ph.D.
- Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D.
- Lambertus van den Berg, Ph.D.
- Rachel I. Wilson, Ph.D.