Yasunori Hayashi
Yasunori Hayashi (林 康紀 Hayashi Yasunori, born July 28, 1965) is a Japanese neuroscientist who was born in Aichi and grew up in Tokyo. He is leading his research group in RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.[1]
Education and research history
- 1984–1990 MD, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
- 1990–1994 PhD, Institute for Immunology and Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
- 1994–1996 Postdoctral Fellow, Department of Neurophysiology, Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
- 1996–2000 Postdoctral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- 2000–2009 Assistant Professor (joint), RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2000–2004 Senior Scientist (joint), Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
- 2004–2009 Unit Leader (joint), Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
- 2009 – current Team Leader, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
Past accomplishments
- Regulation of adrenal tyrosine hydroxylase under hypoxic condition
- Cloning and functional analysis of prostanoid receptor
- Pharmacological analyses of metabotropic glutamate receptor
- Activity dependent trafficking of AMPA type glutamate receptor as a mechanism of hippocampal LTP
- Structural plasticity of dendritic spine and its molecular mechanisms
- Molecular cloning and analysis of motoneuron specific NMDA receptor subtype NR3B
- Retrograde regulation of synaptic release probability by cell adhesion molecules
- Structural elucidation of high-order structure of postsynaptic density
Awards and honors
- 1998 Young Investigator Award from Japanese Pharmacological Society
- 2008 JSPS Prize for Young Investigators[2]
- 2008 Japan Academy Medal[3]
References
- ↑ http://glutamate.brain.riken.jp Archived May 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Jsps-Jsps Prize Archived February 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Japan Academy Medal Prize Recipients | The Japan Academy Archived June 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
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