Takeshi Imai
Neuroscientist. Studying neuronal circuit development, chemical senses, and light microscopy-based connectomics. Professor at Kyushu University.
Website: lab.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dn-en/
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- Reposted by Takeshi ImaiOur research on magneto-sensitive fluorescent proteins and some of their applications has now been published! Huge thank you to the many many people involved in making this happen. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Our new paper is out in Science Advances! We found that dendritic compartment-specific spine “formation” during adolescence is critical for cortical development. We also found that schizophrenia-related genes are important in this process. (1/6) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Using tissue clearing and super-resolution imaging, we found that spine density is highly skewed in apical dendrites of cortical L5 neurons in mice. The middle part had the highest spine density. In contrast, spine density was almost uniform in basal and oblique dendrites. (2/6)
- Reposted by Takeshi ImaiIn June 2001, I arrived in SFO with a suitcase, a student visa, and disproportionate dreams. My life since has been nothing but a dream. My heart is with the international students in the US today.
- Reposted by Takeshi ImaiOur new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- How does neural activity control developmental synapse elimination? Here is a new review paper from the lab: Activity-dependent synaptic competition and dendrite pruning in developing mitral cells. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
- Reposted by Takeshi ImaiA background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell. More on Rinberg sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction. By Lina Zeldovich www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
- Reposted by Takeshi ImaiThe sympathetic nervous system may control selective organs, but how this specificity is achieved is unknown. Our new study @NatureComms www.nature.com/articles/s41... uncovers a parallel labeled-line organization within the lower thoracic spinal cord. 1/
