Kitanishi Lab

Takuma Kitanishi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
Komaba Institute for Science / Department of Life Sciences,
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
The University of Tokyo
E-mail: tkitanishi [@] g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Research interest

Our research focuses on the processing of spatial and mnemonic information in the hippocampal-entorhinal circuits. The techniques we use include multi-unit recording in freely-behaving rodents, anterograde/retrograde viral vectors, optogenetics, machine learning, and behavioral analysis.

Academic appointments

March 2022, Associate Professor, Komaba Institute for Science / Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Oct 2018, PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Jan 2016, Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University
Dec 2014, Department of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
April 2013, Career-Path Promotion Unit for Young Life Scientists, Kyoto University
April 2013, JSPS research fellow (SPD)
April 2009, Post-doc, Tashiro group, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Education

Mar 2009, Ph.D. in pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Mar 2006, M.Sc. in pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Mar 2004, B.S. in pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo