2023 - 2028 Molecular and neural basis for olfactory communication in humans
2018 - 2023 Identification of primer pheromones in mammals and elucidation of a neural basis for the pheromone action
2020 - 2023 成熟社会における食の価値に関する学際的研究
2019 - 2023 香りの機能拡張によるヒューメインな社会の実現
2015 - 2018 Elucidation of a transmitting mechanism of the information of odorants and pheromones, based on the fMRI analysis of the olfactory bulb and the higher-order brain regions and the behavior analysis
2015 - 2018 Integrative sensory evolution in primates revealed by population genetic analysis of olfactory, taste, and color vision receptor genes
2017 - 2018 香りの機能拡張によるヒューメインな社会の実現
2014 - 2017 MRI analysis of olfactory neurocircuits that discriminate odor and pheromone signals
2012 - 2017 Identification of natural ligands for olfactory receptors and elucidation of biological function
2012 - 2017 東原化学感覚シグナルプロジェクト
2012 - 2014 Elucidation of the mechanism of the specific interaction of a mouse peptide pheromone ESP1 and the class-C GPCR receptor
2010 - 2014 Evolutionary diversity and adaption of sensory genes evaluated for natural populations of primates
2011 - 2013 植物の匂い感覚メカニズムの解明
2009 - 2013 社会的行動の基盤となる脳機能の計測・支援のための先端的研究開発
2012 - 2012 嗅覚受容体のナチュラルリガンドの同定とその生物学的機能の解明
2007 - 2011 齧歯類ペプチド性フェロモンファミリーの構造と機能の解明
2007 - 2011 Molecular mechanisms for recognition and signal transduction of sex-specific peptides in the mouse vomeronasal organ
2006 - 2010 Studies on odorant and pheromone receptor as a chemosensor for the external environmen
2006 - 2010 Molecular interaction and modal shift for cell sensors
1999 - 2000 Reconstitution and visualization of odorant responses in olfactory neurons
1998 - 1999 Tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of PKC and its role in celluar regulation
1998 - 1998 PHドメイン結合物質によるPKB蛋白質リン酸化酵素の活性制御に関する研究
1997 - 1998 Analysis of an odorant receptor in olfactory network
1996 - 1996 PHドメインを含むGタンパク質共役型受容体キナーゼの機能解析
1996 - 1996 神経細胞におけるGタンパク質βγサブユニット・MAPキナーゼ・遺伝子発現系
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Papers (142):
Yusuke Ihara, Chiori Ijichi, Yasuko Nogi, Masayuki Sugiki, Yuko Kodama, Sayoko Ihara, Mika Shirasu, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Kazushige Touhara. Predicting human olfactory perception by odorant structure and receptor activation profile. Chemical Senses. 2025
Hiro Kondo, Tetsuo Iwata, Koji Sato, Riseru Koshiishi, Hikoyu Suzuki, Ken Murata, Marc Spehr, Kazushige Touhara, Masato Nikaido, Junji Hirota. Impaired pheromone detection and abnormal sexual behavior in female mice deficient for ancV1R. Current Biology. 2024
Ken Murata, Takumi Itakura, Kazushige Touhara. Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 2024. 18
Toshiki Okumura, Ikuhiro Kida, Atsushi Yokoi, Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto, Kazushige Touhara, Masako Okamoto. Semantic context-dependent neural representations of odors in the human piriform cortex revealed by 7T MRI. Human Brain Mapping. 2024. 45. 6
竹田麻里, 中谷朋昭, 生江史伸, 岡本雅子, 東原和成, 中嶋康博, 早川文代, 中野優子. The Influence of Production Environment Information on Rice Consumption Behavior of Ethically Oriented Consumers Utilizing the UAV-shot Video of Landscape and the Field Sensor Data. フードシステム研究(Web). 2024. 30. 4
Chemical communication in animals: pheromone, receptor and behavior(Plenary Lecture)
(International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE) and the Asia-Pacific Association of Chemical Ecologists (APACE) 3rd Joint meeting 2022)
Social communication in mice: specific vomeronasal receptor-mediated limbic circuit activation leading to behavioral output
(18th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) 2020)
Molecular and neural basis for chemosensory signal-mediated sexual and social behavior
(IRCN & Stockholm Trio Joint Symposium 2020)
Neural Circuits for Chemosensory Signalling
(Gordon Research Conference, Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Flexible Brain Functions and Behavior 2019)
Molecular, Receptor, and Neural Basis for Chemosenosry Signal-Mediated Behavior and Emotion in Mice
(Keystone Symposia Conference "Mammalian Sensory Systems" 2019)