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Tao Kentaro

タオ ケンタロウ | Tao Kentaro
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Research Associate
Research field  (1): Neuroscience - general
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (5):
  • 2022 - 2025 Multimodal social information representation in the ventral hippocampus
  • 2019 - 2022 Social memory representation in the ventral hippocampus
  • 2017 - 2019 Multiplexed neuronal activity during flexible decision making
  • 2015 - 2017 Diversity in action and reward encoding of the midbrain dopamine neurons
  • 2013 - 2015 Interaction between prefrontal cortex and mesofrontal dopamine during cue-reward association learning
Papers (10):
  • Myung Chung, Katsutoshi Imanaka, Ziyan Huang, Akiyuki Watarai, Mu-Yun Wang, Kentaro Tao, Hirotaka Ejima, Tomomi Aida, Guoping Feng, Teruhiro Okuyama. Conditional knockout ofShank3in the ventral CA1 by quantitativein vivogenome-editing impairs social memory. 2024
  • Ziyan Huang, Myung Chung, Kentaro Tao, Akiyuki Watarai, Mu-Yun Wang, Hiroh Ito, Teruhiro Okuyama. Ventromedial prefrontal neurons represent self-states shaped by vicarious fear in male mice. Nature Communications. 2023. 14. 1. 3458-3458
  • Kentaro Tao, Myung Chung, Akiyuki Watarai, Ziyan Huang, Mu-Yun Wang, Teruhiro Okuyama. Disrupted social memory ensembles in the ventral hippocampus underlie social amnesia in autism-associated Shank3 mutant mice. Molecular psychiatry. 2022. 27. 4. 2095-2105
  • Akiyuki Watarai, Kentaro Tao, Mu-Yun Wang, Teruhiro Okuyama. Distinct functions of ventral CA1 and dorsal CA2 in social memory. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2021. 68. 29-35
  • Masakazu Agetsuma, Jordan P Hamm, Kentaro Tao, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, Rafael Yuste. Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons Regulate Neuronal Ensembles in Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 2018. 28. 5. 1831-1845
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Lectures and oral presentations  (1):
  • Sharp-wave ripples in the ventral CA1 represent social memory
    (The 44th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society 2021)
Education (3):
  • 2008 - 2013 The University of Tokyo Graduate School for Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 2006 - 2008 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 2004 - 2006 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Arts and Sciences Natural Sciences I
Professional career (1):
  • Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (5):
  • 2018/04 - 現在 Institute for Quantitative BIosciences, The University of Tokyo Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience Assistant Professor
  • 2015/04 - 2018/03 RIKEN Brain Science Institute Laboratory for Systems Neurophysiology Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2013/04 - 2015/03 RIKEN Brain Science Institute Laboratory for Systems Neurophysiology Researcher
  • 2010/04 - 2013/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Researchers (DC1)
  • 2008/04 - 2013/03 Graduate School for Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo Laboratory for Chemical Pharmacology Graduate Student
Association Membership(s) (2):
Society for Neuroscience ,  THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
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