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Keisuke Yonehara
 
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Graduate School of Medicine Department of Medicine Systems Physiology Professor
School of Medicine Medical Course
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Professor
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He was born in Yokohama, Japan. He spent his university life in Tokyo and his graduate life in Okazaki, Japan. He studied in Basel, Switzerland from 2009 to 2014 and led a lab in Aarhus, Denmark from 2015 to 2024. From 2015 to 2020, he was a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant PI. He has been a professor at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan since 2021. He is also a professor of the Genetics Program at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies - SOKENDAI. To understand the development and operating principles of neural circuits, he studies the seemingly simple but surprisingly elaborate mammalian retina as a model. While in Denmark, he also began research to understand how information processed in the retina is further processed in the visual center and used for behavioral control. After returning to Japan, he also began developing gene therapies for the retina, skeletal muscle, and cardiac muscle. His philosophy is to understand biological systems at multiple levels from molecular to behavioral. Visual Neuroscience Young Investigator Award from Cambridge Press (2013). Max Burger Prize from FMI Institute (2014). Japan Neuroscience Society Incentive Award (2015). Swiss OphthAWARD from the Swiss Ophthalmological Society (2016).

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Degree

  • PhD ( 2008.3   The Graduate University for Advanced Studies )

  • DVM ( 2003.3   The University of Tokyo )

Research Interests

  • Visual processing, Visually guided behaviour, Autonomic nervous system regulation, Diseases in nervous system and muscles

  • Congenital nystagmus, retinitis pigmentosa

  • Motion Vision: Genes, Cell Types, Circuits, Behaviors

  • Retina, Superior colliculus, Visual cortex, Accessory optic system

  • tRNA medicine, nonsense mutation, gene therapy, viral vector

  • 2光子イメージング、パッチクランプ記録、マウス遺伝学、トランスシナプス標識、コネクトーム、トランスクリプトーム解析、行動解析

Research Areas

  • Life Science / Neuroscience-general

Education

  • The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

    2003.4 - 2008.3

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  • The University of Tokyo

    1999.4 - 2003.3

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  • The University of Tokyo

    1997.4 - 1999.3

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Research History

  • Yokohama City University   School of Medicine Medical Course   Professor and Chair

    2026.4

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  • National Institute of Genetics   Department of Gene Function and Phenomics   Visiting researcher

    2026.4

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  • Ritsumeikan University   Center for Systems Vision Science

    2024.7

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  • Aarhus University   Department of Biomedicine   Guest researcher

    2024.2

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  • Research Organization of Information and Systems   National Institute of Genetics   Professor

    2021.10 - 2026.3

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  • The Graduate University for Advanced Studies   The Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, Genetics Program   Professor

    2021.10 - 2026.3

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  • JSTさきがけ研究者

    2020.10 - 2024.3

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  • European Research Council   Starting Investigator

    2015.4 - 2020.3

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  • Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine   DANDRITE   Group Leader

    2015.2 - 2024.1

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  • Aarhus University   Department of Biomedicine   Associate Professor

    2015.2 - 2024.1

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  • Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research   EMBO Long-Term Fellow, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad

    2009.1 - 2015.1

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  • National Institute for Basic Biology

    2008.4 - 2008.12

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  • iGABASnFR2 is an improved genetically encoded protein sensor of GABA. International journal

    Ilya Kolb, Jeremy P Hasseman, Akihiro Matsumoto, Thomas P Jensen, Olga Kopach, Benjamin J Arthur, Yan Zhang, Arthur Tsang, Daniel Reep, Getahun Tsegaye, Jihong Zheng, Ronak H Patel, Loren L Looger, Jonathan S Marvin, Wyatt L Korff, Dmitri A Rusakov, Keisuke Yonehara, Glenn C Turner

    eLife   14   2026.3

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    Monitoring GABAergic inhibition in the nervous system has been enabled by the development of an intensiometric molecular sensor that directly detects GABA. However, the first generation iGABASnFR exhibits low signal-to-noise and suboptimal kinetics, making in vivo experiments challenging. To improve sensor performance, we targeted several sites in the protein for near-saturation mutagenesis and evaluated the resulting sensor variants in a high-throughput screening system using evoked synaptic release in primary cultured neurons. This identified a sensor variant, iGABASnFR2, with 4.1-fold improved sensitivity and 30% faster rise time, and binding affinity that remained in a range sensitive to changes in GABA concentration at synapses. We also identified sensors with an inverted response, decreasing fluorescence intensity upon GABA binding. We termed the best such negative-going sensor iGABASnFR2n, which can be used to corroborate observations with the positive-going sensor. These improvements yielded a qualitative enhancement of in vivo performance when compared directly to the original sensor. iGABASnFR2 enabled the first measurements of direction-selective GABA release in the retina. In vivo imaging in somatosensory cortex revealed that iGABASnFR2 can report volume-transmitted GABA release following whisker stimulation. Overall, the improved sensitivity and kinetics of iGABASnFR2 make it a more effective tool for imaging GABAergic transmission in intact neural circuits.

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  • A Knock-In <i> Igfn1 <sup>iCre</sup> </i> transgenic mouse line provides partial developmental access to type-7 bipolar cells

    Shambhavi Chaturvedi, Haruka Yamamoto, Akihiro Matsumoto, Manabu Abe, Toshikuni Sasaoka, KEISUKE YONEHARA

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    Functional neuronal circuits in the vertebrate retina emerge through coordinated developmental events, yet the timeline by which bipolar cells acquire visual feature selectivity remains unclear. A major barrier is the limited genetic access to bipolar subtypes during early postnatal stages. Recent comprehensive transcriptomic study points to Igfn1 as a molecular marker for type-7 bipolar cells (BC 7), a subtype that exhibits direction-selective glutamate releases in adults. Here, we generated an Igfn1 <sup>iCre</sup> knock-in mouse line and characterized Igfn1 -positive cell morphology from postnatal day 4(P4) to adult using Cre-dependent tdTomato reporter mice. We found Igfn1 -positive cells in the inner retina by P12-P15, predominantly labelling bipolar cells and some amacrine populations. At P15, about 71% of labelled bipolar cells stratified their axons in the S4 sublamina of the inner plexiform layer, consistent with BC 7 morphology. In adult retina, the widespread Igfn1 -labelling appears slightly dominated in amacrine cells. To validate these observations, we analysed Igfn1 expression in the Mouse Retina Cell Atlas and confirmed strong Igfn1 enrichment in BC 7 and expression in additional retinal cell types, mirroring experimental results. Overall, these results reveal Igfn1 <sup>iCre</sup> as a potential developmental tool for BC 7 access in the retina.

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  • Retinal ganglion cells. Invited International journal

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   36 ( 2 )   R41-R44   2026.1

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    How do we perceive the beautiful and rich world around us? Light from the external environment is focused onto the retina, our visual sensory organ. Photons are captured by photoreceptors - light sensors within the retina - and converted into electrical signals. These electrical signals are transmitted to the brain through the optic nerve. If each optic nerve transmits a 'pixel' of the visual scene, then the total number of optic nerve fibers defines our biological 'resolution'. Humans possess approximately one million fibers, meaning the image sent from the retina to the brain (retinal image) has at most about one million pixels (Figure 1A). Compared to today's high-end smartphone cameras with 40-50 million pixels, the retinal image is surprisingly coarse and far removed from the sharpness we subjectively experience.

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  • Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway. Reviewed International journal

    Ole S Schwartz, Akihiro Matsumoto, Haruka Yamamoto, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   2025.12

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    The retina is composed of discrete functional cell types that are also characterized by distinct morphology and gene expression. It remains, however, unclear whether similar discrete functional cell types exist in the visual regions downstream of the retina. Here, we used two-photon calcium imaging to investigate the response-space structure in the retina and in the superficial layers of the mouse superior colliculus (SC), a major retinorecipient area. We found that although retinal ganglion cells showed a clear dependence between responses to luminance and motion, responses to the two stimuli exhibited weaker couplings in collicular neurons. Because of this decoupling, functional clustering based on responses to both luminance and motion had significantly reduced separability compared with clustering based on responses to either. Our work suggests that the SC is not simply a relay station for retinal inputs but rather generates novel feature selectivity that diversifies cellular responses, perhaps through nonlinear neural processes involving the decoupling and recoupling of retinal ganglion cells' feature selectivity.

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  • Functionally distinct GABAergic amacrine cell types regulate spatiotemporal encoding in the mouse retina Reviewed

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Jacqueline Morris, Loren L. Looger, Keisuke Yonehara

    Nature Neuroscience   2025.4

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    DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01935-0

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  • Motion detection: Specific thalamocortical connections revealed Invited

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current Biology   35 ( 1 )   R11 - R13   2025.1

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.019

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  • Recombinase-independent AAV for anterograde transsynaptic tracing. Reviewed International journal

    Islam Faress, Valentina Khalil, Haruka Yamamoto, Szilard Sajgo, Keisuke Yonehara, Sadegh Nabavi

    Molecular brain   16 ( 1 )   66 - 66   2023.9

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    Viral transsynaptic labeling has become indispensable for investigating the functional connectivity of neural circuits in the mammalian brain. Adeno-associated virus serotype 1 (AAV1) allows for anterograde transneuronal labeling and manipulation of postsynaptic neurons. However, it is limited to delivering an AAV1 expressing a recombinase which relies on using transgenic animals or genetic access to postsynaptic neurons. We reasoned that a strong expression level could overcome this limitation. To this end, we used a self-complementary AAV of serotype 1 (scAAV1) under a strong promoter (CAG). We demonstrated the anterograde transneuronal efficiency of scAAV1 by delivering a fluorescent marker in mouse retina-superior colliculus and thalamic-amygdala pathways in a recombinase-independent manner in the mouse brain. In addition to investigating neuronal connectivity, anterograde transsynaptic AAVs with a strong promoter may be suitable for functional mapping and imaging.

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  • Subcortico-amygdala pathway processes innate and learned threats Reviewed

    Valentina Khalil, Islam Faress, Noëmie Mermet-Joret, Peter Kerwin, Keisuke Yonehara, Sadegh Nabavi

    eLife   12   2023.8

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    Behavioral flexibility and timely reactions to salient stimuli are essential for survival. The subcortical thalamic-basolateral amygdala (BLA) pathway serves as a shortcut for salient stimuli ensuring rapid processing. Here, we show that BLA neuronal and thalamic axonal activity in mice mirror the defensive behavior evoked by an innate visual threat as well as an auditory learned threat. Importantly, perturbing this pathway compromises defensive responses to both forms of threats, in that animals fail to switch from exploratory to defensive behavior. Despite the shared pathway between the two forms of threat processing, we observed noticeable differences. Blocking β-adrenergic receptors impairs the defensive response to the innate but not the learned threats. This reduced defensive response, surprisingly, is reflected in the suppression of the activity exclusively in the BLA as the thalamic input response remains intact. Our side-by-side examination highlights the similarities and differences between innate and learned threat-processing, thus providing new fundamental insights.

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  • Emerging computational motifs: Lessons from the retina. Reviewed International journal

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Keisuke Yonehara

    Neuroscience research   2023.6

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    The retinal neuronal circuit is the first stage of visual processing in the central nervous system. The efforts of scientists over the last few decades indicate that the retina is not merely an array of photosensitive cells, but also a processor that performs various computations. Within a thickness of only ∼200 µm, the retina consists of diverse forms of neuronal circuits, each of which encodes different visual features. Since the discovery of direction-selective cells by Horace Barlow and Richard Hill, the mechanisms that generate direction selectivity in the retina have remained a fascinating research topic. This review provides an overview of recent advances in our understanding of direction-selectivity circuits. Beyond the conventional wisdom of direction selectivity, emerging findings indicate that the retina utilizes complicated and sophisticated mechanisms in which excitatory and inhibitory pathways are involved in the efficient encoding of motion information. As will become evident, the discovery of computational motifs in the retina facilitates an understanding of how sensory systems establish feature selectivity.

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  • Editorial: Subcellular computations and information processing. International journal

    Tomoe Ishikawa, Ayako Wendy Ishikawa, Athanasia Papoutsi, Asami Tanimura, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience   15   1169671 - 1169671   2023

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  • Spatiotemporal properties of glutamate input support direction selectivity in the dendrites of retinal starburst amacrine cells. Reviewed International journal

    Prerna Srivastava, Geoff de Rosenroll, Akihiro Matsumoto, Tracy Michaels, Zachary Turple, Varsha Jain, Santhosh Sethuramanujam, Benjamin L Murphy-Baum, Keisuke Yonehara, Gautam Bhagwan Awatramani

    eLife   11   2022.11

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    The asymmetric summation of kinetically distinct glutamate inputs across the dendrites of retinal 'starburst' amacrine cells is one of the several mechanisms that have been proposed to underlie their direction-selective properties, but experimentally verifying input kinetics has been a challenge. Here, we used two-photon glutamate sensor (iGluSnFR) imaging to directly measure the input kinetics across individual starburst dendrites. We found that signals measured from proximal dendrites were relatively sustained compared to those measured from distal dendrites. These differences were observed across a range of stimulus sizes and appeared to be shaped mainly by excitatory rather than inhibitory network interactions. Temporal deconvolution analysis suggests that the steady-state vesicle release rate was ~3 times larger at proximal sites compared to distal sites. Using a connectomics-inspired computational model, we demonstrate that input kinetics play an important role in shaping direction selectivity at low stimulus velocities. Taken together, these results provide direct support for the 'space-time wiring' model for direction selectivity.

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  • Therapeutic Neuromodulation toward a Critical State May Serve as a General Treatment Strategy. Reviewed International journal

    Simon Arvin, Keisuke Yonehara, Andreas Nørgaard Glud

    Biomedicines   10 ( 9 )   2022.9

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    Brain disease has become one of this century's biggest health challenges, urging the development of novel, more effective treatments. To this end, neuromodulation represents an excellent method to modulate the activity of distinct neuronal regions to alleviate disease. Recently, the medical indications for neuromodulation therapy have expanded through the adoption of the idea that neurological disorders emerge from deficits in systems-level structures, such as brain waves and neural topology. Connections between neuronal regions are thought to fluidly form and dissolve again based on the patterns by which neuronal populations synchronize. Akin to a fire that may spread or die out, the brain's activity may similarly hyper-synchronize and ignite, such as seizures, or dwindle out and go stale, as in a state of coma. Remarkably, however, the healthy brain remains hedged in between these extremes in a critical state around which neuronal activity maneuvers local and global operational modes. While it has been suggested that perturbations of this criticality could underlie neuropathologies, such as vegetative states, epilepsy, and schizophrenia, a major translational impact is yet to be made. In this hypothesis article, we dissect recent computational findings demonstrating that a neural network's short- and long-range connections have distinct and tractable roles in sustaining the critical regime. While short-range connections shape the dynamics of neuronal activity, long-range connections determine the scope of the neuronal processes. Thus, to facilitate translational progress, we introduce topological and dynamical system concepts within the framework of criticality and discuss the implications and possibilities for therapeutic neuromodulation guided by topological decompositions.

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  • Direction selectivity in retinal bipolar cell axon terminals. Reviewed International journal

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Weaam Agbariah, Stella Solveig Nolte, Rawan Andrawos, Hadara Levi, Shai Sabbah, Keisuke Yonehara

    Neuron   109 ( 18 )   2928 - 2942   2021.9

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    The ability to encode the direction of image motion is fundamental to our sense of vision. Direction selectivity along the four cardinal directions is thought to originate in direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs) because of directionally tuned GABAergic suppression by starburst cells. Here, by utilizing two-photon glutamate imaging to measure synaptic release, we reveal that direction selectivity along all four directions arises earlier than expected at bipolar cell outputs. Individual bipolar cells contained four distinct populations of axon terminal boutons with different preferred directions. We further show that this bouton-specific tuning relies on cholinergic excitation from starburst cells and GABAergic inhibition from wide-field amacrine cells. DSGCs received both tuned directionally aligned inputs and untuned inputs from among heterogeneously tuned glutamatergic bouton populations. Thus, directional tuning in the excitatory visual pathway is incrementally refined at the bipolar cell axon terminals and their recipient DSGC dendrites by two different neurotransmitters co-released from starburst cells.

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  • Rapid multi-directed cholinergic transmission in the central nervous system. Reviewed International journal

    Santhosh Sethuramanujam, Akihiro Matsumoto, Geoff deRosenroll, Benjamin Murphy-Baum, J Michael McIntosh, Miao Jing, Yulong Li, David Berson, Keisuke Yonehara, Gautam B Awatramani

    Nature communications   12 ( 1 )   1374 - 1374   2021.3

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    In many parts of the central nervous system, including the retina, it is unclear whether cholinergic transmission is mediated by rapid, point-to-point synaptic mechanisms, or slower, broad-scale 'non-synaptic' mechanisms. Here, we characterized the ultrastructural features of cholinergic connections between direction-selective starburst amacrine cells and downstream ganglion cells in an existing serial electron microscopy data set, as well as their functional properties using electrophysiology and two-photon acetylcholine (ACh) imaging. Correlative results demonstrate that a 'tripartite' structure facilitates a 'multi-directed' form of transmission, in which ACh released from a single vesicle rapidly (~1 ms) co-activates receptors expressed in multiple neurons located within ~1 µm of the release site. Cholinergic signals are direction-selective at a local, but not global scale, and facilitate the transfer of information from starburst to ganglion cell dendrites. These results suggest a distinct operational framework for cholinergic signaling that bears the hallmarks of synaptic and non-synaptic forms of transmission.

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  • Binocular integration of retinal motion information underlies optic flow processing by the cortex. Reviewed International journal

    Rune Nguyen Rasmussen, Akihiro Matsumoto, Simon Arvin, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   31 ( 6 )   1165 - 1174   2021.1

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    Locomotion creates various patterns of optic flow on the retina, which provide the observer with information about their movement relative to the environment. However, it is unclear how these optic flow patterns are encoded by the cortex. Here, we use two-photon calcium imaging in awake mice to systematically map monocular and binocular responses to horizontal motion in four areas of the visual cortex. We find that neurons selective to translational or rotational optic flow are abundant in higher visual areas, whereas neurons suppressed by binocular motion are more common in the primary visual cortex. Disruption of retinal direction selectivity in Frmd7 mutant mice reduces the number of translation-selective neurons in the primary visual cortex and translation- and rotation-selective neurons as well as binocular direction-selective neurons in the rostrolateral and anterior visual cortex, blurring the functional distinction between primary and higher visual areas. Thus, optic flow representations in specific areas of the visual cortex rely on binocular integration of motion information from the retina.

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  • Short- and Long-Range Connections Differentially Modulate the Dynamics and State of Small-World Networks. Reviewed International journal

    Simon Arvin, Andreas Nørgaard Glud, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in computational neuroscience   15   783474 - 783474   2021

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    The human brain contains billions of neurons that flexibly interconnect to support local and global computational spans. As neuronal activity propagates through the neural medium, it approaches a critical state hedged between ordered and disordered system regimes. Recent work demonstrates that this criticality coincides with the small-world topology, a network arrangement that accommodates both local (subcritical) and global (supercritical) system properties. On one hand, operating near criticality is thought to offer several neurocomputational advantages, e.g., high-dynamic range, efficient information capacity, and information transfer fidelity. On the other hand, aberrations from the critical state have been linked to diverse pathologies of the brain, such as post-traumatic epileptiform seizures and disorders of consciousness. Modulation of brain activity, through neuromodulation, presents an attractive mode of treatment to alleviate such neurological disorders, but a tractable neural framework is needed to facilitate clinical progress. Using a variation on the generative small-world model of Watts and Strogatz and Kuramoto's model of coupled oscillators, we show that the topological and dynamical properties of the small-world network are divided into two functional domains based on the range of connectivity, and that these domains play distinct roles in shaping the behavior of the critical state. We demonstrate that short-range network connections shape the dynamics of the system, e.g., its volatility and metastability, whereas long-range connections drive the system state, e.g., a seizure. Together, these findings lend support to combinatorial neuromodulation approaches that synergistically normalize the system dynamic while mobilizing the system state.

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  • EyeLoop: An Open-Source System for High-Speed, Closed-Loop Eye-Tracking. Reviewed International journal

    Simon Arvin, Rune Nguyen Rasmussen, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in cellular neuroscience   15   779628 - 779628   2021

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    Eye-trackers are widely used to study nervous system dynamics and neuropathology. Despite this broad utility, eye-tracking remains expensive, hardware-intensive, and proprietary, limiting its use to high-resource facilities. It also does not easily allow for real-time analysis and closed-loop design to link eye movements to neural activity. To address these issues, we developed an open-source eye-tracker - EyeLoop - that uses a highly efficient vectorized pupil detection method to provide uninterrupted tracking and fast online analysis with high accuracy on par with popular eye tracking modules, such as DeepLabCut. This Python-based software easily integrates custom functions using code modules, tracks a multitude of eyes, including in rodents, humans, and non-human primates, and operates at more than 1,000 frames per second on consumer-grade hardware. In this paper, we demonstrate EyeLoop's utility in an open-loop experiment and in biomedical disease identification, two common applications of eye-tracking. With a remarkably low cost and minimum setup steps, EyeLoop makes high-speed eye-tracking widely accessible.

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  • FLRT3 Marks Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells That Project to the Medial Terminal Nucleus. Reviewed International journal

    Tobias Ruff, Christian Peters, Akihiro Matsumoto, Stephan J Ihle, Pilar Alcalá Morales, Louise Gaitanos, Keisuke Yonehara, Daniel Del Toro, Rüdiger Klein

    Frontiers in molecular neuroscience   14   790466 - 790466   2021

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    The mammalian retina extracts a multitude of diverse features from the visual scene such as color, contrast, and direction of motion. These features are transmitted separately to the brain by more than 40 different retinal ganglion cell (RGC) subtypes. However, so far only a few genetic markers exist to fully characterize the different RGC subtypes. Here, we present a novel genetic Flrt3-CreERT2 knock-in mouse that labels a small subpopulation of RGCs. Using single-cell injection of fluorescent dyes in Flrt3 positive RGCs, we distinguished four morphological RGC subtypes. Anterograde tracings using a fluorescent Cre-dependent Adeno-associated virus (AAV) revealed that a subgroup of Flrt3 positive RGCs specifically project to the medial terminal nucleus (MTN), which is part of the accessory optic system (AOS) and is essential in driving reflex eye movements for retinal image stabilization. Functional characterization using ex vivo patch-clamp recordings showed that the MTN-projecting Flrt3 RGCs preferentially respond to downward motion in an ON-fashion. These neurons distribute in a regular pattern and most of them are bistratified at the level of the ON and OFF bands of cholinergic starburst amacrine cells where they express the known ON-OFF direction-selective RGC marker CART. Together, our results indicate that MTN-projecting Flrt3 RGCs represent a new functionally homogeneous AOS projecting direction-selective RGC subpopulation.

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  • Contributions of Retinal Direction Selectivity to Central Visual Processing. Reviewed International journal

    Rune Rasmussen, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   30 ( 15 )   R897-R903   2020.8

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    The brain monitors the sensory environment via signals from the sensory periphery, such as the olfactory epithelium, the inner ear, and the retina. Understanding how sensory stimuli are processed throughout the sensory hierarchy, and how this relates to behavior, is a central outstanding question in the field of neuroscience. The processing of visual motion in mice offers unique opportunities for addressing these questions thanks to a rich literature on the anatomical and physiological properties of motion-sensitive neurons across the visual system, paired with recent developments of cutting-edge genetic and imaging approaches. A visual scene typically contains motion originating from either moving objects or optic flow caused by self-generated movements. Neurons encoding the direction of visual motion are said to be 'direction-selective'. It was historically believed the circuits responsible for creating direction selectivity de novo exist within the visual cortex. Yet, in mice, direction-selective responses can be found already in the retina, suggesting in this model organism visual motion analysis starts at the earliest stage of the visual hierarchy. This minireview presents emerging literature demonstrating how retinal direction-selective cells make causal contributions to central visual motion processing and visually guided behaviors in mice, and their potential clinical relevance, and outlines experiments for testing remaining questions. Research in this field will undoubtedly continue to advance our understanding of the basic principles of the visual system and how sensory neurons extract fundamental features of the world.

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  • A segregated cortical stream for retinal direction selectivity. Reviewed International journal

    Rune Rasmussen, Akihiro Matsumoto, Monica Dahlstrup Sietam, Keisuke Yonehara

    Nature communications   11 ( 1 )   831 - 831   2020.2

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    Visual features extracted by retinal circuits are streamed into higher visual areas (HVAs) after being processed along the visual hierarchy. However, how specialized neuronal representations of HVAs are built, based on retinal output channels, remained unclear. Here, we addressed this question by determining the effects of genetically disrupting retinal direction selectivity on motion-evoked responses in visual stages from the retina to HVAs in mice. Direction-selective (DS) cells in the rostrolateral (RL) area that prefer higher temporal frequencies, and that change direction tuning bias as the temporal frequency of a stimulus increases, are selectively reduced upon retinal manipulation. DS cells in the primary visual cortex projecting to area RL, but not to the posteromedial area, were similarly affected. Therefore, the specific connectivity of cortico-cortical projection neurons routes feedforward signaling originating from retinal DS cells preferentially to area RL. We thus identify a cortical processing stream for motion computed in the retina.

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  • Adaptive disinhibitory gating by VIP interneurons permits associative learning. Reviewed International journal

    Sabine Krabbe, Enrica Paradiso, Simon d'Aquin, Yael Bitterman, Julien Courtin, Chun Xu, Keisuke Yonehara, Milica Markovic, Christian Müller, Tobias Eichlisberger, Jan Gründemann, Francesco Ferraguti, Andreas Lüthi

    Nature neuroscience   22 ( 11 )   1834 - 1843   2019.11

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    Learning drives behavioral adaptations necessary for survival. While plasticity of excitatory projection neurons during associative learning has been extensively studied, little is known about the contributions of local interneurons. Using fear conditioning as a model for associative learning, we found that behaviorally relevant, salient stimuli cause learning by tapping into a local microcircuit consisting of precisely connected subtypes of inhibitory interneurons. By employing deep-brain calcium imaging and optogenetics, we demonstrate that vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-expressing interneurons in the basolateral amygdala are activated by aversive events and provide a mandatory disinhibitory signal for associative learning. Notably, VIP interneuron responses during learning are strongly modulated by expectations. Our findings indicate that VIP interneurons are a central component of a dynamic circuit motif that mediates adaptive disinhibitory gating to specifically learn about unexpected, salient events, thereby ensuring appropriate behavioral adaptations.

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  • Spatiotemporally Asymmetric Excitation Supports Mammalian Retinal Motion Sensitivity. Reviewed International journal

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Kevin L Briggman, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   29 ( 19 )   3277 - 3288   2019.10

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    The detection of visual motion is a fundamental function of the visual system. How motion speed and direction are computed together at the cellular level, however, remains largely unknown. Here, we suggest a circuit mechanism by which excitatory inputs to direction-selective ganglion cells in the mouse retina become sensitive to the motion speed and direction of image motion. Electrophysiological, imaging, and connectomic analyses provide evidence that the dendrites of ON direction-selective cells receive spatially offset and asymmetrically filtered glutamatergic inputs along motion-preference axis from asymmetrically wired bipolar and amacrine cell types with distinct release dynamics. A computational model shows that, with this spatiotemporal structure, the input amplitude becomes sensitive to speed and direction by a preferred direction enhancement mechanism. Our results highlight the role of an excitatory mechanism in retinal motion computation by which feature selectivity emerges from non-selective inputs.

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  • Editorial: The Superior Colliculus/Tectum: Cell Types, Circuits, Computations, Behaviors. Reviewed International journal

    Karl Farrow, Tadashi Isa, Harald Luksch, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in neural circuits   13   39 - 39   2019

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  • Visual Circuits: Division of Labor Revealed. Invited International journal

    Akihiro Matsumoto, Keisuke Yonehara

    Current biology : CB   28 ( 5 )   R208-R210 - R210   2018.3

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    Each mosaic of retinal ganglion cells is thought to extract the same visual feature across mouse retina, but a new study shows that ganglion cells of the same type actually show different light response depending on retinal location.

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  • Virus stamping for targeted single-cell infection in vitro and in vivo. Reviewed International journal

    Rajib Schubert, Stuart Trenholm, Kamill Balint, Georg Kosche, Cameron S Cowan, Manuel A Mohr, Martin Munz, David Martinez-Martin, Gotthold Fläschner, Richard Newton, Jacek Krol, Brigitte Gross Scherf, Keisuke Yonehara, Adrian Wertz, Aaron Ponti, Alexander Ghanem, Daniel Hillier, Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Daniel J Müller, Botond Roska

    Nature biotechnology   36 ( 1 )   81 - 88   2018.1

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    Genetic engineering by viral infection of single cells is useful to study complex systems such as the brain. However, available methods for infecting single cells have drawbacks that limit their applications. Here we describe 'virus stamping', in which viruses are reversibly bound to a delivery vehicle-a functionalized glass pipette tip or magnetic nanoparticles in a pipette-that is brought into physical contact with the target cell on a surface or in tissue, using mechanical or magnetic forces. Different single cells in the same tissue can be infected with different viruses and an individual cell can be simultaneously infected with different viruses. We use rabies, lenti, herpes simplex, and adeno-associated viruses to drive expression of fluorescent markers or a calcium indicator in target cells in cell culture, mouse retina, human brain organoid, and the brains of live mice. Virus stamping provides a versatile solution for targeted single-cell infection of diverse cell types, both in vitro and in vivo.

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  • The Mouse Superior Colliculus as a Model System for Investigating Cell Type-Based Mechanisms of Visual Motor Transformation. Reviewed International journal

    Ana F Oliveira, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in neural circuits   12   59 - 59   2018

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    The mouse superior colliculus (SC) is a laminar midbrain structure involved in processing and transforming multimodal sensory stimuli into ethologically relevant behaviors such as escape, defense, and orienting movements. The SC is unique in that the sensory (visual, auditory, and somatosensory) and motor maps are overlaid. In the mouse, the SC receives inputs from more retinal ganglion cells than any other visual area. This makes the mouse SC an ideal model system for understanding how visual signals processed by retinal circuits are used to mediate visually guided behaviors. This Perspective provides an overview of the current understanding of visual motor transformations operated by the mouse SC and discusses the challenges to be overcome when investigating the input-output relationships in single collicular cell types.

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  • CREATEd viruses go global. Invited International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Nature neuroscience   20 ( 8 )   1041 - 1042   2017.7

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  • Different Modes of Visual Integration in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Revealed by Single-Cell-Initiated Transsynaptic Tracing. Reviewed International journal

    Santiago B Rompani, Fiona E Müllner, Adrian Wanner, Chi Zhang, Chiara N Roth, Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Neuron   93 ( 6 )   1519 - 1519   2017.3

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  • Different Modes of Visual Integration in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Revealed by Single-Cell-Initiated Transsynaptic Tracing. Reviewed International journal

    Santiago B Rompani, Fiona E Müllner, Adrian Wanner, Chi Zhang, Chiara N Roth, Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Neuron   93 ( 4 )   767 - 776   2017.2

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  • NMDA-receptor-dependent plasticity in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis triggers long-term anxiolysis. Reviewed International journal

    Christelle Glangetas, Léma Massi, Giulia R Fois, Marion Jalabert, Delphine Girard, Marco Diana, Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska, Chun Xu, Andreas Lüthi, Stéphanie Caille, François Georges

    Nature communications   8   14456 - 14456   2017.2

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  • Circuit Mechanisms Governing Local vs. Global Motion Processing in Mouse Visual Cortex. Reviewed International journal

    Rune Rasmussen, Keisuke Yonehara

    Frontiers in neural circuits   11   109 - 109   2017

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    A withstanding question in neuroscience is how neural circuits encode representations and perceptions of the external world. A particularly well-defined visual computation is the representation of global object motion by pattern direction-selective (PDS) cells from convergence of motion of local components represented by component direction-selective (CDS) cells. However, how PDS and CDS cells develop their distinct response properties is still unresolved. The visual cortex of the mouse is an attractive model for experimentally solving this issue due to the large molecular and genetic toolbox available. Although mouse visual cortex lacks the highly ordered orientation columns of primates, it is organized in functional sub-networks and contains striate- and extrastriate areas like its primate counterparts. In this Perspective article, we provide an overview of the experimental and theoretical literature on global motion processing based on works in primates and mice. Lastly, we propose what types of experiments could illuminate what circuit mechanisms are governing cortical global visual motion processing. We propose that PDS cells in mouse visual cortex appear as the perfect arena for delineating and solving how individual sensory features extracted by neural circuits in peripheral brain areas are integrated to build our rich cohesive sensory experiences.

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  • “MAPseq”-uencing Long-Range Neuronal Projections Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Neuron   91 ( 5 )   945 - 947   2016.9

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  • Congenital Nystagmus Gene FRMD7 Is Necessary for Establishing a Neuronal Circuit Asymmetry for Direction Selectivity. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Michele Fiscella, Antonia Drinnenberg, Federico Esposti, Stuart Trenholm, Jacek Krol, Felix Franke, Brigitte Gross Scherf, Akos Kusnyerik, Jan Müller, Arnold Szabo, Josephine Jüttner, Francisco Cordoba, Ashrithpal Police Reddy, János Németh, Zoltán Zsolt Nagy, Francis Munier, Andreas Hierlemann, Botond Roska

    Neuron   89 ( 1 )   177 - 93   2016.1

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  • PRESYNAPTIC NETWORKS. Single-cell-initiated monosynaptic tracing reveals layer-specific cortical network modules. Reviewed International journal

    Adrian Wertz, Stuart Trenholm, Keisuke Yonehara, Daniel Hillier, Zoltan Raics, Marcus Leinweber, Gergely Szalay, Alexander Ghanem, Georg Keller, Balázs Rózsa, Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Botond Roska

    Science (New York, N.Y.)   349 ( 6243 )   70 - 4   2015.7

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  • Neuroscience: retinal projectome reveals organizing principles of the visual system. Invited International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Current biology : CB   24 ( 18 )   R833-R835 - R835   2014.9

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  • SPIG1 negatively regulates BDNF maturation. Reviewed International journal

    Ryoko Suzuki, Masahito Matsumoto, Akihiro Fujikawa, Akira Kato, Kazuya Kuboyama, Keisuke Yonehara, Takafumi Shintani, Hiraki Sakuta, Masaharu Noda

    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience   34 ( 9 )   3429 - 42   2014.2

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    We previously identified SPARC-related protein-containing immunoglobulin domains 1 (SPIG1, also known as Follistatin-like protein 4) as one of the dorsal-retina-specific molecules expressed in the developing chick retina. We here demonstrated that the knockdown of SPIG1 in the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) of developing chick embryos induced the robust ectopic branching of dorsal RGC axons and failed to form a tight terminal zone at the proper position on the tectum. The knockdown of SPIG1 in RGCs also led to enhanced axon branching in vitro. However, this was canceled by the addition of a neutralizing antibody against brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) to the culture medium. SPIG1 and BDNF were colocalized in vesicle-like structures in cells. SPIG1 bound with the proform of BDNF (proBDNF) but very weakly with mature BDNF in vitro. The expression and secretion of mature BDNF were significantly decreased when SPIG1 was exogenously expressed with BDNF in HEK293T or PC12 cells. The amount of mature BDNF proteins as well as the tyrosine phosphorylation level of the BDNF receptor, tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB), in the hippocampus were significantly higher in SPIG1-knockout mice than in wild-type mice. Here the spine density of CA1 pyramidal neurons was consistently increased. Together, these results suggest that SPIG1 negatively regulated BDNF maturation by binding to proBDNF, thereby suppressing axonal branching and spine formation.

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  • The first stage of cardinal direction selectivity is localized to the dendrites of retinal ganglion cells. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Karl Farrow, Alexander Ghanem, Daniel Hillier, Kamill Balint, Miguel Teixeira, Josephine Jüttner, Masaharu Noda, Rachael L Neve, Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Botond Roska

    Neuron   79 ( 6 )   1078 - 85   2013.9

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    Inferring the direction of image motion is a fundamental component of visual computation and essential for visually guided behavior. In the retina, the direction of image motion is computed in four cardinal directions, but it is not known at which circuit location along the flow of visual information the cardinal direction selectivity first appears. We recorded the concerted activity of the neuronal circuit elements of single direction-selective (DS) retinal ganglion cells at subcellular resolution by combining GCaMP3-functionalized transsynaptic viral tracing and two-photon imaging. While the visually evoked activity of the dendritic segments of the DS cells were direction selective, direction-selective activity was absent in the axon terminals of bipolar cells. Furthermore, the glutamate input to DS cells, recorded using a genetically encoded glutamate sensor, also lacked direction selectivity. Therefore, the first stage in which extraction of a cardinal motion direction occurs is the dendrites of DS cells.

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  • Motion detection: neuronal circuit meets theory. Invited International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Cell   154 ( 6 )   1188 - 9   2013.9

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  • Ambient illumination toggles a neuronal circuit switch in the retina and visual perception at cone threshold. Reviewed International journal

    Karl Farrow, Miguel Teixeira, Tamas Szikra, Tim J Viney, Kamill Balint, Keisuke Yonehara, Botond Roska

    Neuron   78 ( 2 )   325 - 38   2013.4

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  • Ezh2 orchestrates topographic migration and connectivity of mouse precerebellar neurons. Reviewed International journal

    Thomas Di Meglio, Claudius F Kratochwil, Nathalie Vilain, Alberto Loche, Antonio Vitobello, Keisuke Yonehara, Steven M Hrycaj, Botond Roska, Antoine H F M Peters, Anne Eichmann, Deneen Wellik, Sebastien Ducret, Filippo M Rijli

    Science (New York, N.Y.)   339 ( 6116 )   204 - 7   2013.1

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  • [Function, structure and development of directionally selective circuits in the retina]. Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Seikagaku. The Journal of Japanese Biochemical Society   84 ( 4 )   271 - 5   2012.4

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  • Spatially asymmetric reorganization of inhibition establishes a motion-sensitive circuit. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Kamill Balint, Masaharu Noda, Georg Nagel, Ernst Bamberg, Botond Roska

    Nature   469 ( 7330 )   407 - 10   2011.1

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  • Identification of retinal ganglion cells and their projections involved in central transmission of information about upward and downward image motion. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Hiroshi Ishikane, Hiraki Sakuta, Takafumi Shintani, Kayo Nakamura-Yonehara, Nilton L Kamiji, Shiro Usui, Masaharu Noda

    PloS one   4 ( 1 )   e4320   2009

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  • Expression of SPIG1 reveals development of a retinal ganglion cell subtype projecting to the medial terminal nucleus in the mouse. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Takafumi Shintani, Ryoko Suzuki, Hiraki Sakuta, Yasushi Takeuchi, Kayo Nakamura-Yonehara, Masaharu Noda

    PloS one   3 ( 2 )   e1533   2008.2

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  • Expression analyses of sex steroid-regulated genes in neonatal rat hypothalamus. Reviewed

    Keisuke Yonehara, Masatoshi Suzuki, Keitaro Yamanouchi, Masugi Nishihara

    The Journal of reproduction and development   49 ( 6 )   547 - 52   2003.12

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  • Androgen induces p130 mRNA expression in the neonatal rat hypothalamus. Reviewed International journal

    Keisuke Yonehara, Masatoshi Suzuki, Keitaro Yamanouchi, Masugi Nishihara

    Neuroscience letters   334 ( 2 )   107 - 10   2002.12

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  • Sex-related differences in gene expression in neonatal rat hypothalamus assessed by cDNA microarray analysis. Reviewed

    Keisuke Yonehara, Masatoshi Suzuki, Masugi Nishihara

    Endocrine journal   49 ( 2 )   131 - 7   2002.4

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  • Spatially asymmetric reorganization of inhibition establishes a motion-sensitive circuit

    Keisuke Yonehara, Kamill Balint, Masaharu Noda, Georg Nagel, Ernst Bamberg, Botond Roska

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   71   E235 - E235   2011

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  • Identification of visual pathways for the upward and downward image motion

    Keisuke Yonehara, Masaharu Noda

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   65   S14 - S14   2009

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  • Expression of SPIG1 reveals development of a functional subtype of ON direction selective ganglion cells in the mouse

    Keisuke Yonehara, Takafumi Shintani, Ryoko Suzuki, Hiraki Sakuta, Yasushi Takeuchi, Kayo Nakamura-Yonehara, Hiroshi Ishikane, Nilton L. Kamiji, Shiro Usui, Masaharu Noda

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   61   S102 - S102   2008

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  • Speed cell activity in the superior colliculus of freely moving mice Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    EMBO Workshop Subcortical sensory circuits: From perception to behavior @Assisi  2025.2 

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  • Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding Invited

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    Synapse Biology in Health and Disease @Copenhagen  2025.1 

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  • 新生仔期のマウス網膜において 動き検出回路が創発するメカニズム Invited

    米原圭祐

    第8回感覚フロンティア研究会シンポジウム @ 東京大学  2025.10 

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  • 発達期網膜における非対称神経接続再編成の 臨界期の解明 Invited

    米原 圭祐

    学術変革(臨界期)班会議  2023.8 

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  • ウィリアムズ症候群の視空間認知障害の神経回路機構 Invited

    米原 圭祐

    アステラス病態代謝研究会 第53回研究報告会  2023.10 

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  • Diverse neural activity in the mouse superior colliculus Invited

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    Helsinki University  2023.9 

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  • 網膜による動き検出の神経回路メカニズム Invited

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    第58回東北眼疾患病態研究会  2024.2 

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  • Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Invited seminar at IOB - Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel  2024.1 

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  • Establishment of basic technology for contactome analysis Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    The 2nd JST International Symposium ”Dynamics of Cellular Interactions in Multicellular Systems”  2024.2 

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  • 目は脳に何を伝えるか Invited

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    遺伝研公開講演会  2023.11 

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  • コンタクトーム解析の基盤技術の確立 Invited

    米原 圭祐

    さきがけ第7回領域会議  2023.10 

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  • 網膜による動き検出の神経回路メカニズム Invited

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    東京大学大学院医学系研究科 機能生物学セミナー  2023.12 

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  • Dynamics of neural activity in the mouse superior colliculus under various behavioral conditions Invited

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    Biology of Behavior Change, the 3rd project meeting  2023.12 

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  • Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding Invited

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  • Speed cell activity in the superior colliculus of freely moving mice Invited

    Keisuke YONEHARA

    行動変容生物学領域会議 @熱海  2025.6 

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  • 目は脳に何を伝えるか 〜網膜神経回路による視覚特徴抽出〜 Invited

    米原圭祐

    東京大学大学院理学系研究科生物科学専攻 生物科学特別講義  2025.6 

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  • Speed cell activity in the superior colliculus of freely moving mice Invited

    Keisuke YONEHARA

    第48回日本神経科学学会大会 @新潟  2025.7 

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  • 目は脳に何を伝えるか ーネズミを使って解き明かす視覚のしくみー Invited

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    山陽小野田市立東京理科大学 特別講義  2025.7 

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  • Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Niigata BRI Seminar  2025.3 

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  • Structure, development, and disease of motion-sensitive circuits in the mammalian retina Invited

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    World Science Leader's Seminar  2022.12  筑波大学 グローバル教育院(SIGMA)

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  • 新生仔期のマウス網膜において動き検出回路が創発するメカニズム Invited

    米原 圭祐

    東京大学大学院理学系研究科 生物科学セミナー  2025.6 

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  • Independent cellular responses to luminance and motion in the mouse superior colliculus Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    APPW2025 @Makuhari  2025.3 

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  • コンタクトーム解析の基盤技術の確立 Invited

    米原 圭祐

    さきがけ第6回領域会議  2023.3 

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  • Emergence of spatially asymmetric neural connections in the mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    NIG Colloquium  2023.2 

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  • 網膜は脳に何を伝えるのか Invited

    米原 圭祐

    第48回日本神経科学大会@新潟 教育講演  2025.7 

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  • Development of cell contact-mediated viral labeling technique Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    The 2nd CJK International Meeting, Zhuhai China  2023.7 

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  • Dynamics of neural activity in the mouse superior colliculus under various behavioral conditions Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Biology of Behavior Change, the 2nd project meeting  2023.7 

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  • Emergence of direction-selective circuits in the postnatal mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke YONEHARA

    European Retina Meeting 2025 @ Pécs Hungary  2025.9 

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  • GABA imaging for understanding spatiotemporal coding of sensory features Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Retreat for Multidimensional Analysis of Memory Mechanisms  2023.8 

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  • Functionally distinct GABAergic amacrine cell types regulate spatiotemporal encoding in the mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke YONEHARA

    The 3rd CJK meeting, Seoul.  2025.8 

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  • Comprehensive GABA imaging in the mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Neuro2023  2023.8 

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  • Neural circuits for visually-mediated behaviors in the mouse Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    BRI-DANDRITE Partnership Sympoium  2023.4 

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  • Neural circuits mediating visual input for body homeostasis in mammals

    Keisuke Yonehara

    2023.3 

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  • Use of AAV and genetically-modified rabies virus for visual circuit mapping Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    ARVO SIGs  2023.6 

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  • Emergence of spatially asymmetric neural connections in the mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    BRI-DANDRITE online joint lecture  2023.5 

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  • 発達期網膜における非対称神経接続再編成の 臨界期の解明 Invited

    米原圭祐

    学術変革領域研究A 臨界期生物学 領域班会議  2024.8 

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  • Emergence of retinal motion detection circuits during neonatal development Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Kick-off Symposium for Transformative Research Area(A) Emergence of Brain Functions from the Dynamic Connectome  2024.7 

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  • Emergence of functional retinal circuits during postnatal development Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    SPONT2024 @Alicante  2024.11 

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  • Emergence of functional retinal circuits during postnatal development Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Retreat for Multidimensional Analysis of Memory Mechanisms 2024 @Max Planck Florida Institute  2024.9 

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  • Diverse neural activity in the mouse superior colliculus Invited

    KEISUKE YONEHARA

    Invited seminar at UCSF Dept. of Physiology  2024.5 

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  • 新生仔期の自発神経活動が創発する 網膜の動き検出回路 Invited

    米原圭祐

    学術変革領域研究(A)領域会議  2024.4 

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  • Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Invited seminar at Vision Institute, Paris  2024.7 

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  • Diverse neural activity in the mouse superior colliculus Invited

    KEISUKE YONEHARA

    Invited seminar at IINS, Bordeaux Neurocampus  2024.6 

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  • 目は脳に何を伝えるか ーネズミを使って解き明かす視覚のしくみー Invited

    米原圭祐

    遺伝学講座みしま  2025.1 

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  • コンタクトーム解析の基盤技術の確立 Invited

    米原圭祐

    さきがけ多細胞領域第5回領域会議  2022.8  JSTさきがけ

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    Venue:京都   Country:Japan  

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  • Retinal direction selectivity specified by homeobox gene Vax2 Invited

    米原圭祐

    第45回日本神経科学大会  2022.7  日本神経科学学会

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    Venue:宜野湾   Country:Japan  

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  • Ten years in Aarhus -To see what our eyes see- Invited

    Keisuke Yonehara

    Mini Symposium at DANDRITE  2025.1 

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  • 視覚的な動きを検出する視覚神経回路の構造、発達、及び疾患 Invited

    米原圭祐

    広島大学生命医科学プログラム研究セミナー  2022.11  今村拓也教授 広島大学生命医科学プログラム

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  • Structure, development, and disease of direction-selective circuits in the mammalian retina Invited

    2022.9 

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    Country:Japan  

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  • 目は脳に何を伝えるか Invited

    米原圭祐

    MPUF研究開発プロフェッショナルの流儀  2022.2  Microsoft Project Users Forum

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    Venue:Online   Country:Japan  

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  • Neural circuits and computation in visual system Invited

    米原圭祐

    DANDRITE SAB meeting  2022.6  DANDRITE, Aarhus University

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    Venue:Sandbjerg manor   Country:Denmark  

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  • Linking Neural Circuit Asymmetries to Eye Movement Disorders Invited International conference

    Keisuke Yonehara

    2022.5 

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    Country:Denmark  

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  • Emergence of direction-selective circuits in the postnatal mouse retina Invited

    Keisuke YONEHARA

    Retreat for Multidimensional Analysis of Memory Mechanisms 2025 @IINS Bordeaux  2025.10 

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Awards

  • Swiss OphthAWARD

    2016.9  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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  • Associate

    2016   AIAS  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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  • Young Investigator Award

    2015.7   Japan Neuroscience Society  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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  • ERC Starting Investigator

    2014.12   European Research Council  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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  • Max M. Burger Prize

    2014.9   Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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  • Visual Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

    2013.10   Cambridge University Press  

    Keisuke Yonehara

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Research Projects

  • 細胞間相互作用をウイルス感染により標識するための新規技術開発

    Grant number:25K22484  2025.6 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    米原 圭祐

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    Grant amount:\6500000 ( Direct Cost: \5000000 、 Indirect Cost:\1500000 )

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  • 新生仔期の自発神経活動が創発する網膜の動き検出回路

    Grant number:24H02311  2024.4 - 2029.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  学術変革領域研究(A)

    米原 圭祐

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    Grant amount:\118040000 ( Direct Cost: \90800000 、 Indirect Cost:\27240000 )

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  • 網膜-上丘経路における視覚情報変換の樹状突起メカニズムの解明

    Grant number:24K02134  2024.4 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    米原 圭祐

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    Grant amount:\18460000 ( Direct Cost: \14200000 、 Indirect Cost:\4260000 )

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  • 探索から逃避へのモードシフトを創発する上丘の空間細胞ダイナミクス

    Grant number:23H04687  2023.4 - 2025.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  学術変革領域研究(A)

    米原 圭祐

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    Grant amount:\7280000 ( Direct Cost: \5600000 、 Indirect Cost:\1680000 )

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  • 発達期網膜における非対称神経接続再編成の臨界期の解明

    Grant number:23H04241  2023.4 - 2025.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  学術変革領域研究(A)

    米原 圭祐

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    Grant amount:\12220000 ( Direct Cost: \9400000 、 Indirect Cost:\2820000 )

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  • 記憶メカニズムの多次元解析 - nmからメゾスケール/ミリ秒から日スケールまで

    Grant number:22K21353  2022.12 - 2029.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  国際共同研究加速基金(国際先導研究)

    林 康紀, 池谷 裕二, 柚崎 通介, 久保 郁, 根本 知己, 米原 圭祐, 三國 貴康

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    Grant amount:\689000000 ( Direct Cost: \530000000 、 Indirect Cost:\159000000 )

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  • 空間非対称神経接続の発達と破綻の分子細胞機構

    2022.4 - 2025.3

    東レ科学振興会  科学技術研究助成 

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  • コンタクトーム解析の基盤技術の確立

    2020.11 - 2024.3

    科学技術振興機構  さきがけ 

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    Grant number:20K23377  2020.10 - 2024.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Home-Returning Researcher Development Research)  Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Home-Returning Researcher Development Research)

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    Grant amount:\55640000 ( Direct Cost: \42800000 、 Indirect Cost:\12840000 )

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  • Development of functional organization of the visual circuits in mice

    Grant number:638730  2015.4 - 2020.3

    European Research Council  Starting Grant 

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  • Elucidation of mechanisms for determination of retinal ganglion cell subtype and regular mosaic formation

    Grant number:20200010  2008 - 2010

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research a proposed research project)

    SAKUTA Hiraki, YONEHARA Keisuke

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    For the first time, we succeeded in visualization of two distinct subtypes of retinal ganglion cell. For the purpose of elucidation of mechanisms for determination of retinal ganglion cell subtype and regular mosaic formation, we tried isolation of the subtype-specific genes using single-cell microarray method but failed. However, we succeeded in isolation of a gene which is commonly expressed in these two retinal ganglion cell subtypes. We revealed the electrophysiological property of the two subtypes. Furthermore, we found that these the two subtypes projected to the medial terminal nucleus via different pathways.

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  • 発生期マウス網膜において領域特異的な発現を示す新規免疫グロブリン様分子の機能解析

    Grant number:04J06879  2004 - 2005

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  特別研究員奨励費

    米原 圭祐

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    発生期マウス網膜において背側特異的に発現する新規免疫グロブリン様分子であるmBsp1のターゲティングマウスの解析を行うことにより、mBsp1の生理機能を明らかにする研究を行った。
    本研究においてはまず、マウスの発生を追って脳の各部位におけるmBsp1のmRNAの発現パターンを詳細に解析した。mBsp1の網膜における発現は視神経軸索が伸長を開始する時期から観察され、その領域特異的な発現は生後半年でも維持されていた。また、mBsp1の発現は嗅球、大脳皮質、大脳辺縁系、小脳、脊髄などの広い領域で観察された。その後、当研究室においてmBsp1ターゲティングマウスの作出に成功した。このマウスの網膜から上丘への領域特異的投射の解析を蛍光性トレーサー色素であるDiIを用いて行ったところ、背側網膜由来の神経節細胞軸索の一部が上丘内において本来の投射先とは異なる位置に神経終末を形成していることが明らかとなった。また、蛍光ラベルされたコレラトキシンを用いて両眼から外側膝状体への投射を解析したところ、対側及び同側の眼球からの投射の分離は正常に起きていたが、同側の眼球から投射を受ける層が野生型マウスと比較して拡大していることが明らかになった。また、mBsp1の遺伝子座にノックインされたGFPが効率よく視神経軸索末端まで運ばれるとが明らかになったので、GFPを指標としてmBsp1を発現する網膜神経節細胞の中枢への投射先を明らかにする解析を行った。その結果、GFP陽性の軸索の投射は上丘及び外側膝状体背側核の一部、視蓋前域の一部、及び副視覚系に観察されたが、外側膝状体腹側核や視床下部の視交差上核などには観察されなかった。これらの結果から、mBsp1は視神経の視中枢への精緻な神経結合の形成に関与していること、またその発現は網膜神経節細胞の一部のサブタイプのみに観察されることが明らかになった。

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Teaching Experience

  • Physiology

    2026.5 Institution:Yokohama City University School of Medicine

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  • Genetics

    2024 Institution:The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

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  • Developmental Biology Ⅱ

    2022 Institution:The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

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  • 生命医科学特別講義

    2022 Institution:広島大学

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  • Neuroscience Journal Club

    2021 Institution:The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

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  • PhD course in Advanced in vivo optical imaging techniques

    2018 - 2020 Institution:Aarhus University

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  • Graduate Neuroscience Course

    2016 - 2019 Institution:Aarhus University

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  • 生体機能学実習 応用コース TA

    2000 - 2002 Institution:東京大学農学部獣医学課程

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  • 生体機能学実習 基礎コース TA

    2000 - 2002 Institution:東京大学農学部獣医学課程

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