Annual Meeting Mini-Symposium Cell Adhesion Molecules in Synapse Formation
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Philip Washbourne,1 Alexander Dityatev,2 Peter Scheiffele,3 Thomas Biederer,4 Joshua A. Weiner,5 Karen S. Christopherson,6 and Alaa El-Husseini7 1Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, 2Centre for Molecular Neurobiology, Medical University of Hamburg, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany, 3Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, 4Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, 5Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, 6Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, and 7Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
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