National Institute for Physiological Science
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6. SCIENTIFIC STAFF

Director-General

OKADA, Yasunobu

Vice-Director-General

IKENAKA, Kazuhiro

Chief Chairperson

IMOTO, Keiji

Chief Researcher

NABEKURA, Junichi
Chairperson for Cooperative Studies
NAMBU, Atsushi
Chairperson for Animal Experiment Problem
KAWAGUCHI, Yasuo
Chairperson for Safety and Research Ethics Problems
NAGAYAMA, Kuniaki
Chairperson for News and Public Affairs
KOMATSU, Hidehiko
Chairperson for Educational Problem
SHIGEMOTO, Ryuichi
Chairperson for Special Project

Emeritus Professor and Technical Staff

OOMURA, Yutaka
Emeritus Professor
HAMA, Kiyoshi
Emeritus Professor
WATANABE, Akira
Emeritus Professor
WATARI, Hiroshi
Emeritus Professor
YAMAGISHI, Shunichi
Emeritus Professor
MORI, Shigemi
Emeritus Professor
OBATA, Kunihiko
Emeritus Professor
KANEKO, Akimichi
Emeritus Professor
SASAKI, Kazuo
Emeritus Professor
MIZUNO, Noboru
Emeritus Professor
OHIRA, Hitoo
Emeritus Technical Staff

Department of Molecular Physiology

Division of Biophysics and Neurobiology
KUBO, Yoshihiro
Professor
TATEYAMA, Michihiro
Associate Professor
NAKAJO, Koichi
Assistant Professor
KECELI, Mehmet Batu
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Neurobiology and Bioinformatics
IKENAKA, Kazuhiro
Professor
HITOSHI, Seiji
Associate Professor
TANAKA, Kenji
Assistant Professor
YOSHIMURA, Takeshi
Project Assistant Professor
INAMURA, Naoko
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Nano-Structure Physiology
NAGAYAMA, Kuniaki
Professor
MURAKAMI, Masataka
Associate Professor
OHASHI, Masato
Assistant Professor
DANEV, Radostin
Assistant Professor
HOSOGI, Naoki
Postdoctoral Fellow
KAYAMA, Yoko
Postdoctoral Fellow
FUKUDA, Yoshiyuki
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Cell Physiology

Division of Membrane Physiology
FUKATA, Masaki
Professor
FUKATA, Yuko
Associate Professor
IWANAGA, Tsuyoshi
Project Assistant Professor
NORITAKE, Jun
Postdoctoral Fellow
YOKOI, Norihiko
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Correlative Physiology
OKADA, Yasunobu
Director-General
KOIZUMI, Amane
Associate Professor
OKADA, Toshiaki
Project Associate Professor
KUKITA, Fumio
Assistant Professor
KASHIHARA, Yasuhiro
Assistant Professor
MOHRI, Tatsuma
Assistant Professor
AKITA, Tenpei
Project Assistant Professor
URAMOTO, Hiromi
Postdoctoral Fellow
*Division of Neural Systematics
Under selection
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Division of Cell Signaling
TOMINAGA, Makoto
Professor
YAMANAKA, Akihiro
Associate Professor
SUZUKI, Yoshiro
Assistant Professor
SOKABE, Takaaki
Project Assistant Professor
SAITO, Shigeru
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
UMEMURA, Toru
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCHIDA, Kunitoshi
Postdoctoral Fellow
BOUDAKA, Ammar
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Information Physiology

Division of Sensory and Cognitive Information
KOMATSU, Hidehiko
Professor
ITO, Minami
Associate Professor
GODA, Naokazu
Assistant Professor
Division of Neural Signaling
IMOTO, Keiji
Professor
FURUE, Hidemasa
Associate Professor
YAMAGATA, Yoko
Assistant Professor
SATAKE, Shin'Ichiro
Assistant Professor
KASE, Daisuke
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
UTA, Daisuke
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Developmental Neurophysiology
YOSHIMURA, Yumiko
Professor
HIGASHIJIMA, Shin-ichi
Associate Professor
MORI, Takuma
Assistant Professor
TARUSAWA, Etsuko
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
KIMURA, Yukiko
Postdoctoral Fellow
ISHIKAWA, Ayako
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
SATOU, Chie
Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Integrative Physiology

Division of Sensori-Motor Integration
KAKIGI, Ryusuke
Professor
INUI, Koji
Assistant Professor
MIKI, Kensaku
Project Assistant Professor
MORITA, Tomoyo
Project Assistant Professor
WASAKA, Toshiaki
Project Assistant Professor
URAKAWA, Tomokazu
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
NAKATO, Emi
Postdoctoral Fellow
MATSUYOSHI, Daisuke
Postdoctoral Fellow
MATSUMOTO, Atsushi
Postdoctoral Fellow
OTSURU, Naofumi
Postdoctoral Fellow
MIYAZAKI, Takahiro
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of System Neurophysiology
NAMBU, Atsushi
Professor
HATANAKA, Nobuhiko
Assistant Professor
TACHIBANA, Yoshihisa
Assistant Professor
CHIKEN, Satomi
Assistant Professor
SANO, Hiromi
Project Assistant Professor
KOKETSU, Daisuke
Project Assistant Professor
TAKARA, Sayuki
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
*Division of Computational Neuroscience
AIHARA, Kazuyuki
Adjunct Professor

Department of Cerebral Research

Division of Cerebral Structure
SHIGEMOTO, Ryuichi
Professor
TABUCHI, Katsuhiko
Associate Professor
FUKAZAWA, Yugo
Assistant Professor
MATSUI, Ko
Assistant Professor
KAMASAWA, Naomi
Project Assistant Professor
EGASHIRA, Yoshihiro
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
KAWAKAMI, Ryosuke
Postdoctoral Fellow
HARADA, Harumi
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
WANG, Wen
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Cerebral Circuitry
KAWAGUCHI, Yasuo
Professor
KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki
Associate Professor
OTSUKA, Takeshi
Assistant Professor
MORISHIMA, Mieko
Assistant Professor
SHIGEMATSU, Naoki
Postdoctoral Fellow
UETA, Yoshifumi
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
HIRAI, Yasuharu
Postdoctoral Fellow
USHIMARU, Mika
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Cerebral Integration
SADATO, Norihiro
Professor
TANABE, Hiroki
Assistant Professor
KITADA, Ryo
Assistant Professor
TANAKA, Satoshi
Project Assistant Professor
KAWAMICHI, Hiroaki
Project Assistant Professor
OSHIO, Ritz
Postdoctoral Fellow
OKAZAKI, Shuntaro
Postdoctoral Fellow
MURASE, Mika
Postdoctoral Fellow
YOSHIHARA, Kazufumi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Developmental Physiology

Division of Behavioral Development
ISA, Tadashi
Professor
YOSHIDA, Masatoshi
Assistant Professor
KANEDA, Katsuyuki
Assistant Professor
IKEDA, Takuro
Project Assistant Professor
KINOSHITA, Masaharu
Project Assistant Professor
MARUYAMA, Megumi
Project Assistant Professor
NISHIMURA, Yukio
Postdoctoral Fellow
WATANABE, Hidenori
Postdoctoral Fellow
SAKATANI, Tomoya
Postdoctoral Fellow
KATO, Rikako
Postdoctoral Fellow
UMEDA, Tatsuya
Postdoctoral Fellow
IMAZU, Sugiko
Postdoctoral Fellow
PHONGPHANPHANEE, Penphimon
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Homeostatic Development
NABEKURA, Junichi
Professor
ISHIBASHI, Hitoshi
Associate Professor
KATO, Go
Assistant Professor
WATANABE, Miho
Project Assistant Professor
ETO, Kei
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
KIM, Sun Kwang
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
MINOKOSHI, Yasuhiko
Professor
SHIUCHI, Tetsuya
Assistant Professor
OKAMOTO, Shiki
Assistant Professor
INAGAKI-OHARA, Kyoko
Project Assistant Professor
TODA, Chitoku
NIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
*Division of Adaptation Development
YADA, Toshihiko
Adjunct Professor

Center for Genetic Analysis of Behavior

SHIGEMOTO, Ryuichi
Director
Section of Mammalian Transgenesis
HIRABAYASHI, Masumi
Associate Professor
TOMITA, Koichi
Assistant Professor
Section of Metabolic Physiology
MINOKOSHI, Yasuhiko
Professor
YAMANAKA, Akihiro
Associate Professor
*Section of Behavior Patterns
MIYAKAWA, Tsuyoshi
Adjunct Professor
KIMURA, Tohru
Associate Professor
TAKAO, Keizo
Project Associate Professor

Center for Multidisciplinary Brain Research

IKENAKA, Kazuhiro
Director
YOSHIDA, Akira
Project Professor
Section of Brain Science Exploration and Training
IMOTO, Keiji
Professor
NABEKURA, Junichi
Professor
MIYATA, Takaki
Adjunct Professor
NISHIDA, Shin'ya
Adjunct Professor
SORA, Ichiro
Adjunct Professor
SAKAI, Kuniyoshi
Adjunct Associate Professor
DOYA, Kenji
Adjunct Professor
TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke
Adjunct Professor
MOCHIDA, Sumiko
Adjunct Professor
MOMOI, Y, Mariko
Adjunct Professor
Section of Brain Information Decoding
ISA, Tadashi
Professor
KAWATO, Mitsuo
Adjunct Professor
YOKOI, Hirofumi
Adjunct Professor
KITAZAWA, Shigeru
Adjunct Professor
SAKURA, Osamu
Adjunct Professor
KATO, Amami
Adjunct Professor
Section of Primate Model Development for Brain Research
NAMBU, Atsushi
Professor
YAMAMORI, Tetsuo
Professor
TAKADA, Masahiko
Adjunct Professor
KOBAYASHI, Kazuto
Adjunct Professor
SASAI, Yoshiki
Adjunct Professor
Section of NBR Promotion
ISA, Tadashi
Professor
INAGAKI, Haruhisa
Project Associate Professor
YAMANE, Itaru
Postdoctoral Fellow
HAMAI, Miya
Postdoctoral Fellow
*Section of Visiting Collaborative Research

Supportive Center for Brain Research

NABEKURA, Junichi
Director
Section of Brain Structure Information
MURATA, Kazuyoshi
Associate Professor
FURUYA, Sonoko
Assistant Professor
Section of Brain Function Information
TSUJIMOTO, Toru
Associate Professor
Section of Multiphoton Neuroimaging
NABEKURA, Junichi
Professor
Section of Electron Microscopy
MURATA, Kazuyoshi
Associate Professor
Section of Ine Marine Laboratory
KUKITA, Fumio
Assistant Professor

Center for Communication Networks

NAGAYAMA, Kuniaki
Director
Section of Communications and Public Liaison
NAGAYAMA, Kuniaki
Professor
KOIZUMI, Amane
Associate Professor
Section of Evaluation and Collaboration
IMOTO, Keiji
Professor
MURAKAMI, Masataka
Associate Professor
*Section of Physiology and Medicine Education
SHIBUYA, Masato
Adjunct Professor

OKAZAKI RESEARCH FACILITIES
(Sectors cooperative with National Institute for Physiological Sciences)

Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience

Department of Development, Differentiation and Regeneration
(Division of Developmental Neurophysiology joint division)
Department of Strategic Methodology
(Division of Nano-Structure Physiology joint division)
Department of Bio-Environmental Science
(Division of Cell Signaling joint division)

Center for Experimental Animals

NAMBU, Atsushi
Director
KIMURA, Tohru
Associate Professor

Research Center for Computational Science

KATAOKA, Masanori
Assistant Professor

Division of Coordinator for Animal Experimentation

SATO, Hiroshi
Project Professor

As of 2010.4
Asterisk(*) denotes adjunct divisions.
Star () denotes joint division.



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