Sakurai Akira

Affiliation and department：

Research field (2)： Neuroscience - general , Animals: biochemistry, physiology, behavioral science

Research keywords (3)：コマンドニューロン , シナプス可塑性 , 連合学習

Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：

2022 - 2025 コマンドニューロンの可塑的変化による連合学習機構-その分子基盤のリアルタイム解析
2019 - 2022 In vivo real-time observation of plastic changes in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons during Pavlovian conditioning
2016 - 2019 摂食神経回路をモデルとした連合学習に伴うシナプス可塑性の単一細胞レベルでの解析
2015 - 2016 シナプス可塑性を記憶に結びつけるための分子細胞学的研究
2014 - 2016 条件反射に伴う神経回路可塑性の遺伝生理学的研究

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Papers (4)：

Akira Sakurai, J Troy Littleton, Hiroaki Kojima, Motojiro Yoshihara. Alteration in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons underlies a form of Pavlovian conditioning in the Drosophila brain. Current biology : CB. 2021. 31. 18. 4163-4171
Takaaki Fujii, Akira Sakurai, J. Troy Littleton, Motojiro Yoshihara. Synaptotagmin 7 switches short-term synaptic plasticity from depression to facilitation by suppressing synaptic transmission. Scientific Reports. 2021. 11. 1
Akira Sakurai, Masayuki Koganezawa, Kei-Ichiro Yasunaga, Kazuo Emoto, Daisuke Yamamoto. Select interneuron clusters determine female sexual receptivity in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 2013. 4. 1825
Akira Sakurai, Yoshiro Nakano, Masayuki Koganezawa, Daisuke Yamamoto. Phenotypic interactions of spinster with the genes encoding proteins for cell death control in Drosophila melanogaster. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 2010. 73. 3. 119-127

MISC (4)：

櫻井晃. NICTが挑む「記憶研究」の世界. ニュースイッチ. 2022
櫻井晃. 記憶形成脳内変化を随時観察. 日刊工業新聞. 2022
Connecting Synaptic Plasticity to Memory at the Single Cell Level. 2019. 476. 4-5
Akira Sakurai, Masayuki Koganezawa, Daisuke Yamamoto. Identifying subsets of brain neurons that affect female sexual receptivity in Drosophila. NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH. 2011. 71. E52-E52

Patents (1)：

Lectures and oral presentations (32)：

Synaptotagmin 7 functions as the Ca2+ sensor for synaptic facilitation and is essential for short-term memory during Pavlovian conditioning in Drosophila
(2024)
Witnessing the creation of memory in real time
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Neurobiology of Drosophila(New York, USA) 2023)
Ca2+ binding of Synaptotagmin 7 is essential for formation of conditioned response during Pavlovian conditioning in Drosophila
(2023)
Loss of Ca2+-binding protein Synaptotagmin 7 resulted in reduced conditioned response during Pavlovian conditioning in Drosophila
(2022)
Defective conditioned response during Pavlovian conditioning in Synaptotagmin 7 mutants of Drosophila
(Neuro 2022(第45回日本神経科学大会) 2022)

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Education (2)：

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Work history (7)：

2016/10 - 現在 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
2015/04 - 2016/09 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
2014/08 - 2015/03 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
2014/01 - 2014/07 Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences
2013/08 - 2013/12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States of America) Picower Institute for learning and memory Postdoctoral Associate

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Awards (4)：

Association Membership(s) (2)：

THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF JAPAN , THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY

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