3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
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.
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.