I am excited to announce that the Johns Hopkins University Solomon H. Snyder Department has become an interdivisional department between the School of Medicine and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, unifying neuroscience research and education across the university. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...

Warning about national brain drain and the end of American Science as we know it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Preprint of our new manuscript describing the differential enzymatic and structural roles of SYNGAP1. These findings highlight the complex interplay between SYNGAP1 structural and catalytic functions in neuronal physiology and disease.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Squab for two.

In line with other positive posts and cat posts, here is a picture of our dogs in action, frolicking in the daffodils.

I am happy to announce that Dan Pederick will join the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor this summer. Dan joins us from Liqun Luo’s laboratory at Stanford University, where he was studying how cell surface molecules regulate neural circuit assembly.