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Group Photo at Okazaki, March 2025
Junxiang Luo and Hiroki Oishi became Assistant Professors in the Takemura Laboratory on February 2025 and March 2025, respectively.
A visit by Dr. Helen Mayberg and Dr. Jon Haitz Legarreta
Dr. Helen Mayberg from Mount Sinai and Dr. Jon Haitz Legarreta from Brigham and Women's Hospital visited us. Dr. Mayberg lectured on cutting-edge deep brain stimulation research for psychiatric disorders, and Dr. Legarreta presented novel approaches to tractography using autoencoders. Dr. The seminars were very active, and we had many fruitful discussions. Thank you very much for visiting us!
A visit by Dr. Aviv Mezer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dr. Aviv Mezer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem stayed with us for a few days for a joint research project. In his lecture, he introduced his recent research, ranging from the basics of MRI measurement to its applications, in which quantitative and semi-quantitative MRI metrics are used to measure the basal ganglia microstructure and investigate structural changes caused by Parkinson's disease. The seminar was a lively one, with questions and answers throughout. Thank you very much for visiting us!
A visit by Dr. Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota, USA)
Dr. Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota, USA) lectured on his latest studies on modeling signal and noise in neural datasets. During his stay, we had a continuous discussion about science. Thank you very much for visiting us!
Farewell party
We had a farewell party for Toshikazu Miyata, who will move to the USA soon. Toshi was one of the early members of our department and has contributed greatly to the establishment of the laboratory. We wish him all the best in his new position in the USA!
International Symposium on Brain Structure and Function (Jul 1st & 2nd, 2024)
We arranged "International Symposium on Brain Structure and Function" at NIPS, Okazaki, Japan from July 1st to July 2nd, 2024 (with Dr. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten of CNRS). 82 people attended in total (including an online participants). We had 17 talks and 15 poster presentations. The symposium was very active and many attendees engaged in scientific discussion on brain structure and function.
OHBM2024, Seoul
The OHBM 2024 annial meeting was hosted in Seoul, Korea. Professor Takemura and Dr. Nicola Palomero-Gallagher organized an educational course titled "Neuroanatomy and its impact on structural and functional neuroimaging (In Memory of Karl Zilles)". Takemura Lab also had many presentations including an oral presentation by Maiko Uesaki.
Group Photo at Okazaki, April 2024
A visit by Dr. Mauro Costagli (University of Genoa, Italy)
Dr. Mauro Costagli of the University of Genoa (Italy) visited us and gave us a lecture on quantitative susceptibility mapping using MRI.
Group Photo at Okazaki, January 2024
Dr. Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga of the BCBL, Basque Country, Spain joins Takemura Lab for 2 months as a visiting scholar for collaborative research. Welcome Gari!