Member


Principal Investigator
 Motojiro Yoshihara
PI profile
Moto Yoshihara received his B. Sc. (1987) from the Department of Zoology at the University of Tokyo and Ph.D. (1992) from the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received a Human Frontiers Science Program fellowship to do postdoctoral work at the City of Hope, California in the laboratory of Kazuo Ikeda. After working as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School as a faculty member in 2006.  In 2013, he left University of Massachusetts Medical School to work as a visiting professor at MIT, being supported by NIH grant, R01.  In 2014, he moved back to Japan, and joined National Institute of Information and Communications Technology as a Senior Research Scientist (PI).

Postdoctoral fellows Akira Sakurai

Technical stuffs

Takaaki Fujii

Husako Yamamoto


Kota Takagiwa

Ryoko Suzuki

Shogo Ikeda

Secretary

Yuko Ishii

Former members at UMass or MIT

Akira Sakurai, Postdoctoral fellow
Michael Gorczyca, Postdoctoral fellow
Shinya Iguchi, graduate student (present, UC Berkeley)
Tom Flood, graduate student
Louis Watanabe, summer student (present, University of Alabama)
Sayaka Yokoyama, visiting student from Tohoku University
Alicia Taylor, Coop student from Northeastern University
Rizwana Seeham, summer student from Boston University
Tao Xu, lab technician



Shinya and Moto, the main force for publication of the Feeding neuron paper in the announce from UMass when our paper appeared on Nature
http://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2013/06/neurons-control-feeding-behavior/



Moto lab at University of Massachusetts Medical school

  
  Retreat in 2017

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