Ryosuke Tanaka
Neuroscientist
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- Reposted by Ryosuke Tanaka1/6: New publication from the lab: “Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons” by Ryosuke Tanaka (@ryosuketanaka.bsky.social) and Ruben is available here: rdcu.be/eX1L4
- Also I am actively looking for a PI position! In principle I am hoping to stay in Japan, but please do reach out if you happen to know any opening for which I might be a fit, regardless of place!
- Another major update: I am finally back in Tokyo after 8 years! Starting this January, I am a postdoc in the lab of @fumikubo.bsky.social at RIKEN CBS, with a continued support from HFSP. My plan is to dig deeper into the circuit surrounding the head direction neurons.
- My paper on the head direction neurons in the larval zebrafish is now published on Nature! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The biggest update from the bioRxiv version is the reanalysis of the "double sun" experiment (heavily inspired by earlier fly works). Initially, we expected to see fish flip-flopping between (say) north- and south-facing interpretations in a scene with two-fold point symmetry.
- Reposted by Ryosuke Tanaka*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️
- A paper from my PhD lab is on Science! This is a really cool new way to utilize EM connectome datasets. Congrats to the team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- A study on distance estimation in flies from my PhD lab is now on @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Our study on optic flow memory in fish is now on Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- I'm back in Japan for the Japanese Neuroscience Society meeting last week in Niigata. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new colleagues. Sushi was also excellent.
- Bit late, but I was at the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting at the beginning of the month. The topic was a bit out of my expertise, but I learned a lot about chemistry, met a lot of great people, and above all thoroughly enjoyed being at another corner of Freistaat Bayern.
- Our review is on the cover! www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/...
- As I transitioned from studying Drosophila to the larval zebrafish, I have been noticing a lot of interesting parallels between their visual systems (esp. tectum vs. lobula), which I feel are not talked about enough. We explored these analogies in depth in our latest review: tinyurl.com/3hvkhsyk
- As I am posting these, I am in Awaji island, Japan, for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference starting today. The last time I was here I was like 5. The landscape is incredible.
- Check out my new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here I run a bunch of psychophysics experiments to better understand how the larval zebrafish🐟 remember the past optic flow in the context of stabilization behaviors.
