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
Naoko Tomonaka
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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