Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University, Japan. Neuroscientist interested in decision-making, motivation, and emotional regulation.
Kyoto-fu, Japan
Joined November 2022
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Excited to have joined the faculty at Kyoto University, Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences from April 2025. I look forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead. @KyotoUnivPharm @KyotoU_News pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp/blog/202…
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【プレスリリース】小澤貴明助教、疋田貴俊教授の研究成果がnpj Science of Food（オンライン）に掲載されました。
「脳は体の声を聞いて“おいしい”を決めていた ―ドーパミン系による柔軟な価値計算―」
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#阪大 #蛋白研
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Excited to share our new study:
"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"
by @Andrea_MZamora, @Akaron0884 & team at @tcddublin, in collaboration with @lynchielydia & @DrChristineAnnD
@RyanLabTCD @Nature
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New preprint from our group. We explore how internal states of hydration and salinization influence value coding by the mesolimbic dopamine system.
@hikidalab
New preprint: Flexible value coding in the mesolimbic dopamine system depending on internal water and sodium balance biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Our scientists with over 150 collaborators have released the largest functional map and wiring diagram of the brain to date – seven years in the making.
Today’s 1.6 petabyte release marks a historic day for neuroscience. This moonshot milestone will further efforts towards understanding the cortical mechanisms of intelligence. Congratulations to the teams who made this possible.
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プレプリントを公開しました！様々なストレスモデルのFos mappingや神経投射の全脳解析を通して、急性社会的ストレスによる社会回避行動の形成にNA神経のサブ細胞集団が関わることを見出しました。
Noradrenergic efferent subsystems that gate traumatic social learning biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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New brain aging study is out today in | @Nature
The largest single-cell RNA seq dataset of mouse brain aging reveals incredible insights and could pave the way for future therapies to slow or manage the impacts of the aging process. 🧵 #studyBRAIN
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📣Missed our webinar with the outstanding @tom_mac_lab from Osaka University? Catch it on-demand to learn about striatum's role in decision-making & how #miniscope imaging unveils D1 & D2-MSNs functions. Don't miss this fascinating webinar! #Neuroscience hubs.ly/Q02D7qGY0
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🌐Join our New Horizons webinar with @tom_mac_lab, at @osaka_univ as he shares the latest striatal circuit insights. Discover how his research unveils distinct subpopulations of D1- and D2-MSNs in signaling valence & influences decision-making. Join us!👇 hubs.ly/Q02xRSq80
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Excited to announce I’m off to Osaka for the next academic year!
Working with colleagues at Osaka University, Japan, @drsarahking will study the biological impact of social isolation and establish a new interdisciplinary model of healthy social behaviour across the lifespan: leverhulme.ac.uk/internation…
ALT Screenshot of webpage: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/international-fellowships/king Cartoon brains sat at a table drinking coffee, one is waving.
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Reconceptualizing behavior as a sharable reagent:
rdcu.be/dIFmr
We present a platform for behavioral analysis called Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA). A sincere thank you to the community for their continued expert feedback and suggestions
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Excited to share that our new paper, led by Tatsushi Yokoyama, is out in @naturemethods . We developed improved genetically encoded green cAMP (cAMPinG1) and red calcium (RCaMP3) indicators for dual-color monitoring of cAMP and calcium signaling in vivo.
nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
Incredible stuff 🤯👏 – at Suita-shi, Osaka
The first cellular map of a mammalian brain is here. 🧠✨
Over 6 years and 32 million cells in the making, the complete adult mouse brain cell-type atlas reveals astonishing diversity and regional specificity.
Dive deeper: alleninstitute.org/scientist…
@nature #studyBRAIN #BICCN
Very happy to be awarded the @osaka_univ Young Investigator Award 🥇
It’s been a great year and I’m excited to share our group’s next work soon. – at Osaka-fu, Japan
Anyone still at SFN tomorrow, our group have a poster on our recent work revealing dual roles for accumbal neurons in limbic and motor control from our fantastic postdoc Suthinee (Fern). Check it out from tomorrow morning at board UU6 – at Washington, DC
I’ll be giving a short nanosymposium talk at #SfN2023 today (Sun 12th) about my recently published work on the nucleus accumbens’ role in decision-making. Anyone that’s about please come check it out at 1PM in room WWC150. – at Washington, DC
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Katalin Karikó Has Thoughts on How to Support Shunned Scholars Like Her chronicle.com/article/katali…
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Ever make a mistake and had to correct it? Maybe these neurons have something to do with it. Great team effort from the Harvey and Greenberg labs at Harvard Medical School.
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Surprisingly, many have been puzzled by how happy I appear to be--apparently unusual for a PI. Now I share my recipe for happiness: Don't worry about others scooping you, where you publish, how much funding you get. and get 8 hrs of sleep every night. Simple but demanding.
To anyone at JNS meeting. I’ll be chairing a symposium on “Cross-species mechanisms of learning and adaptive behavior” tomorrow from 8:45-10:45 alongside @aure_cor. We have a fantastic selection of speakers including @BiancaASilva11, @AyakaKat0, and Ai Koizumi. Hope to see you!