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Masai Ichiro

マサイ イチロウ | Masai Ichiro
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Homepage URL  (2): https://groups.oist.jp/ja/dnuhttps://groups.oist.jp/dnu
Research field  (4): Neuroscience - general ,  Genetics ,  Cell biology ,  Developmental biology
Research keywords  (8): neuronal regeneration ,  microglia ,  photoreceptor degeneration ,  apoptosis ,  cell death ,  cell differentiation ,  lens ,  retina
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (6):
  • 2014 - 2017 ER-resident BH3-only protein, BNip1, induces apoptosis in response to excessive activation of vesicular transport in zebrafish photoreceptors
  • 2011 - 2015 Establishment of a basis to study vertebrate phoneme based on transposon-mediated genetic methods
  • 2011 - 2012 Mechanism underlying photoreceptor degeneration in response to vesicular fusion defects
  • 2006 - 2008 Mechanism underlying retinal lamination in zebrafish
  • 1999 - 2000 Functional analysis of zebrafish retina-specific atonal gene and its expression profile
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Papers (52):
  • Swathy Babu, Yuki Takeuchi, Ichiro Masai. Banp regulates DNA damage response and chromosome segregation during the cell cycle in zebrafish retina. eLife. 2022. 11
  • Manana Kutsia, Yuki Takeuchi, Nishtha Ranawat, Ichiro Masai. Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals heterogeneity and a dynamic regenerative response of quiescent radial glia in adult zebrafish brain. BioRxiv. 2022
  • Mai Ahmed, Yutaka Kojima, Ichiro Masai. Strip1 regulates retinal ganglion cell survival by suppressing Jun-mediated apoptosis to promote retinal neural circuit formation. eLife. 2022. 11
  • Nishtha Ranawat, Ichiro Masai. Mechanisms underlying microglial colonization of developing neural retina in zebrafish. eLife. 2021. 10
  • Yuko Nishiwaki, Ichiro Masai. β-SNAP activity in the outer segment growth period is critical for preventing BNip1-dependent apoptosis in zebrafish photoreceptors. Scientific reports. 2020. 10. 1. 17379-17379
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MISC (27):
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Lectures and oral presentations  (76):
  • cGMP metabolismの異常を介した視細胞変性メカニズム
    (日本生化学会大会(Web) 2017)
  • 小胞体上のBH3オンリータンパクであるBNip1は小胞輸送の過剰な活性化により細胞死を誘導する
    (日本生化学会大会(Web) 2017)
  • VPS45 mutation induces ectopic lens fiber differentiation in the lens epithelium through the activation of TGF-beta signaling
    (XXII Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER) 2016)
  • ゼブラフィッシュの系統管理と遺伝学研究への活用
    (日本実験動物学会総会講演要旨集 2015)
  • 正中線交叉における交連軸索のSlit応答性スイッチの分子基盤:Robo1細胞内輸送系とArf6シグナリングの役割
    (日本生化学会大会(Web) 2015)
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Education (2):
  • 1988 - 1992 University of Tokyo Faculty of Science Department of Physics
  • 1984 - 1988 University of Tokyo Faculty of Science Department of Physics
Professional career (1):
  • phD (University of Tokyo)
Work history (8):
  • 2019/07 - 現在 Okinawa Institute Science and Technology Graduate University Developmental Neurobiology Unit Professor
  • 2011/11 - 2019/06 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Developmental Neurobiology Unit Associate Professor
  • 2006/10 - 2011/10 Okinawa Institute Science and Technology Promotion Corporation Developmental Neurobiology Unit Principal Investigator (Unit leader)
  • 2001/10 - 2006/09 RIKEN Masai Initiative Research Unit Unit leader
  • 2000/10 - 2001/09 JST PRESTO (Recognition and Formation) PRESTO researcher
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Association Membership(s) (7):
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) ,  International Zebrafish Society ,  JAPAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY ,  International Society for Eye Research (ISER) ,  THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY ,  JAPANESE SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS ,  THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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