Thomas Sudhof
PROFESSOR
NEUROLOGY AND OF PSYCHIATRY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
In 1955, obtained his M.D. and doctoral degrees from the University of Göttingen in 1982. He performed his doctoral thesis work at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen .dhof served on the faculty of UT Southwestern in Dallas until 2008, and among others was the founding chair of the Department of Neuroscience at that institution. In 2008, Südhof moved to Stanford, and became the Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. In addition, Südhof has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1986.
Research Interest
Human thought and perception, emotions and actions universally depend on signaling between neurons in the brain
Publications
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Zhang B, Chen LY, Liu X, Maxeiner S, Lee SJ, Gokce O, Südhof TC. Neuroligins sculpt cerebellar Purkinje-cell circuits by differential control of distinct classes of synapses. Neuron. 2015 Aug 19;87(4):781-96.
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Pak C, Danko T, Zhang Y, Aoto J, Anderson G, Maxeiner S, Yi F, Wernig M, Südhof TC. Human neuropsychiatric disease modeling using conditional deletion reveals synaptic transmission defects caused by heterozygous mutations in NRXN1. Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Sep 3;17(3):316-28.
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Bacaj T, Wu D, Burré J, Malenka RC, Liu X, Südhof TC. Synaptotagmin-1 and-7 are redundantly essential for maintaining the capacity of the readily-releasable pool of synaptic vesicles. PLoS biology. 2015 Oct 5;13(10):e1002267.
