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● Gen OTSUKI Associate Professor
Research Interests: Neurophysiology / Neuroscience
Research Topic: Physiological elucidation of the principle of learning and thought, and brain malfunction cure by focusing on the clonally-related cells.
Short Introduction
Gen’s research field is the electrical- and optical- physiology. After writing PhD thesis at Kyoto University, he did posdoc research at Erasmus University, Medical Center, in the Netherlands, and at the University of Chicago. He carried out his experiments with multiple patch-clamping from neurons in the cerebellum and studied the synaptic- and non-synaptic plasticity, which are nowadays thought to be the basement of the learning in the brain. Further returning to Japan, at Kyushu University, he learned the methods with two-photon microscopy, and revealed the functional correlation among clonally-related neurons in the visual cortex, thanks to talented colleagues and bosses. In his Hakubi project, Gen will seek for the reason why people can learn and even think, by focusing the neuronal population stemmed from a single progenitor cell, basically by using multiple-recording. It is because such clonally-related neurons, but not all, in a living brain were found to share function.
Latest News
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Nov. 26, 2019
Dr. Gen Ohtuki (Graduate School of Science) held a press conference presentation at the Society for Neuroscience 2019.
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Nov. 26, 2019
Dr. Gen Ohtuki (Graduate School of Science) published a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience.
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Sep. 12, 2019
Associate Professor Gen Ohtuki(Graduate School of Science) and Associate Professor Minsoo Kim(Graduate School of Medicine) published a paper in Cell Reports.
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Mar. 27, 2018
Gen Ohtsuki published "Synaptic Potential and Plasticity of an SK2 Channel Gate Regulate Spike Burst Activity in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells" in iScience vol1, no1, p49-54 (Cell Press, USA). 【23 March, 2018】This paper was accepted as the cover issue of the first volume of the journal.
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Aug. 18, 2015
Gen Ohtsuki gave a talk on "Functional Diversification in Clonal Cells after Eye-Opening in Mouse Visual Cortex" at the Mini-symposium, Wiring and Plasticity in the Brain -How Neural Circuits are Connected-. (July 24, 2015, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
