Principal Investigator

Tanaka, Nobuaki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Hokkaido University

Career

• June, 2004

  Postdoctoral fellow at National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (Mentor: Mark Stopfer)

• June, 2009

  Postdoctoral fellow at Career Path Promotion Unit for Young Life Scientists,  Kyoto University (Mentor: Aki Ejima)

• October, 2010

  Researcher, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency

• February, 2013

  Assistant Professor, Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University

• April, 2017

  Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University

JSPS Posdoc

Student

Alumni

• 2021-2023. Kazuki Nishimura, Msc.
  
• 2020-2022. Masaki Kataoka, BSc.
  Ikeda, Kataoka, Tanaka. (2022) Nonsynaptic transmission mediates light context-dependent odor responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Neuroscience 42:8621-8628.
• 2017-2020. Kazuaki Ikeda, BSc, Msc. awarded for the best presentation (Master course thesis) in 2020.
  Ikeda et al. (2022) Nonsynaptic transmission mediates light context-dependent odor responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Neuroscience 42:8621-8628. selected as a Featured Article in "This Week in The Journal".
• 2018-2019. Takashi Hirao, BSc. awarded for the best poster presentation (undergraduate thesis) in 2019.
  Tanaka, Hirao, et al. (2021) A sexually dimorphic olfactory neuron mediates fixed action transition during courtship ritual in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Neuroscience 41:9732-9741. selected as a Featured Article in "This Week in The Journal."
• 2018-2019. Kazuhide Kiuchi, BSc.
  
• 2016-2017. Yuta Mabuchi, BSc, awarded for the best poster presentation (undergraduate thesis) in 2017.
  
• 2014-2017. Motoki Koizumi, BSc, MSc, awarded Runner-up student poster award at the CIAC meeting in 2015.
  Koizumi et al. (2018) Calcium imaging method to visualize the spatial patterns of neural responses in the pygmy squid,  Idiosepius paradoxus, central nervous system. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 294:67-71.
  Koizumi et al. (2015) Three-dimensional brain atlas of pygmy squid, Idiosepius paradoxus, revealing the largest relative vertical lobe system volume among the cephalopods. Journal of Comparative Neurology doi: 10.1002/cne.23939.
• 2013-2016. Ryosuke Yagi, BSc, MSc, awarded for the best poster presentation (undergraduate thesis) in 2014.
  Yagi et al. (2016) Convergence of multimodal sensory pathways to the mushroom body calyx in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports 6: 29481; doi: 10.1038/srep29481.