title: Choreographing the axo-dendritic dance.
abstract: The assembly of neuronal synapses in the brain relies on a sophisticated bidirectional signal exchange between synaptic partners. In a recent issue of Neuron, Ito-Ishida and colleagues (2012) uncover a morphogenetic program underlying the formation of presynaptic terminals.
authors.affiliation: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. peter.scheiffele@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scheiffele
authors.forename: Takatoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iijima