The First group meeting of the new academic area, "dynamic control of brain function by scrap-and-build process" was carried out in March 6 to 8 days Karuizawa Prince Hotel。Diligently until late at night I stayed the Discussion was made to the lodge。

Axon's first clause (AIS) is a site that generates an action potential、Formed by Ankyrin G has been known to be controlled。But Ankyrin or G is given to how the integration was not well understood。Papers this time microtubule bridging molecules MTCL1 revealed that plays an essential role in the formation and maintenance of AIS isThis work has been published in EMBO J.it was done。Is the study of the Satake-san and Suzuki, professor of Yokohama City University。Yuzu In Nagasaki Institute is a joint research san and Miura Takeo has the help of intrauterine electroporation and organizations analysis。

In the new academic area "nerve Glycobiology" final symposium Suzuki Assistant Professor (Adjunct) was awarded the Best Poster Award。Congrats!

A new review on C1q family proteins “The C1q complement family of synaptic organizers: not just complementary.” has been published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

By introducing mRNA encoding the transcription factor、How to efficiently and rapidly differentiated from iPS cells into motor neuronsScientific Reportsにpublishit was done。This paper is the result of joint research with Hong teacher of the system Medicine。Also it was featured in such Nihon Keizai Shimbun。

 A reunion party of Keio Physiology Laboratories was held on February 11, 2017. A lecture was also given by Dr. Shibata,ja. See photo.

On February 3 and 6, Dr. Radu Aricescu, a visiting professor from Oxford University, gave two lectures on entitled “Introduction to Modern Structural Biology.”

A review on the delta glutamate receptors (wheels) “A GluD Coming-Of-Age Story (A GluD Coming-of-Age Story)” has been published in Trends in Neuroscience.

Dr. Yuzaki participated and gave a talk at the NUS-Keio Joint Symposium at the National University of Singapore on January 10-11th, 2017. See photos.

Symposium held at the "brain circuit creation of Elucidation and control technology of the formation and operation principle of the forefront 2017- brain circuit of research" is January 20 (Friday) 10:00 30 minutes to Conference Square M (Marunouchi Mitsubishi building 10F) willTodid。This symposium by eight research team that has been adopted in AMED-CREST research expenses。People Ya, which is engaged in the life science and medical research、Planning is that target to the general public who are interested in the mechanism of the brain。Alone with participation tightening is up to 13 days。Click here for detailsUntil。

Otsuka-kun’s thesis paper has been published in J Neurosci. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Konno (co-first author) in Prof. Watanabe’s laboratory and Dr. Abe in Prof. Sakimura’s laboratory. It was featured as “It has been featured in "This Week in The Journal." .”

 Dr. Yuzaki gave a talk at The 47th NIPS International Symposium “Decoding Synapses,” held at the National Institute of Physiological Science on October 26-28, 2016.