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J-GLOBAL ID:202001017636341629   Update date: Dec. 23, 2025

Nagahama Kenichiro

Nagahama Kenichiro
Affiliation and department:
Research field  (1): Neuroscience - general
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2024 - 2025 Spatiotemporal characterization of the neuronal mechanism underlying transfer of anorexia
  • 2022 - 2024 負の情動共有に関わる神経回路メカニズムの時間空間的な探索
Papers (10):
  • Kenichiro Nagahama*, Veronica Hyeyoon Jung*, Hyung-Bae Kwon. Cutting-edge methodologies for tagging and tracing active neuronal coding in the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2025. 92. 102997-102997
  • Seungkyu Son*, Kenichiro Nagahama*, Jinsu Lee*, Kanghoon Jung*, Chuljung Kwak, Jihoon Kim, Young Woo Noh, Eunjoon Kim, Sangkyu Lee#, Hyung-Bae Kwon#, et al. Real-time visualization of structural dynamics of synapses in live cells in vivo. Nature Methods. 2024
  • Kisho Obi-Nagata, Norimitsu Suzuki, Ryuhei Miyake, Matthew L. MacDonald, Kenneth N. Fish, Katsuya Ozawa, Kenichiro Nagahama, Tsukasa Okimura, Shoji Tanaka, Masanobu Kano, et al. Distorted neurocomputation by a small number of extra-large spines in psychiatric disorders. Science Advances. 2023. 9. 23
  • Jung Ho Hyun*, Kenichiro Nagahama*, Ho Namkung*, Neymi Mignocchi, Seung-Eon Roh, Patrick Hannan, Sarah Krüssel, Chuljung Kwak, Abigail McElroy, Bian Liu, et al. Tagging active neurons by soma-targeted Cal-Light. Nature Communications. 2022. 13. 1
  • Jung Ho Hyun, Kenichiro Nagahama, Ho Namkung, Neymi Mignocchi, Patrick Hannan, Sarah Krüssel, Chuljung Kwak, Abigail McElroy, Bian Liu, Mingguang Cui, et al. Tagging active neurons by soma-targeted Cal-Light. bioRxiv. 2021
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MISC (1):
  • Kenichiro Nagahama. 行動や情動変化に関与する神経細胞群を数秒・数分単位の時間枠で同定し、 活動操作するための新規遺伝学的ツールの開発. Neuroscience News. 2023. 234. 37-39
Lectures and oral presentations  (18):
  • Tracing neuronal dynamics underlying complex behavior
    (HST Open Seminar 2025)
  • Cracking neuronal dynamics underlying complex behavior
    (233rd WPI-IIIS Seminar 2025)
  • 神経メカニズムの動的変化を捉える分子ツールの開発とその応用
    (NMS基礎研究セミナー 2025)
  • Tracing neuronal dynamics underlying higher-order behavior
    (Synapse meeting 2024 2024)
  • Tagging active neurons and circuits during specific timing in higher-order behavior
    (NEURO2024 2024)
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Education (2):
  • 2015 - 2019 The University of Tokyo Functional Biology, Graduate School of Medicine Department of Neurophysiology
  • 2007 - 2013 Nippon Medical School
Professional career (2):
  • Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
  • M.D. (Nippon Medical School)
Work history (5):
  • 2026/02 - 現在 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Health Science and Technology Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator)
  • 2020/04 - 2026/01 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience (Hyungbae Kwon lab) Postdoctoral fellow
  • 2022/04 - 2024/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellow
  • 2019/04 - 2020/03 Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Department of Neurophysiology (Masanobu Kano lab) Postdoctoral fellow
  • 2013/04 - 2015/03 National Center for Global Health and Medicine Hospital Department of Internal Medicine Resident
Awards (5):
  • 2024/07 - NEURO2024 (Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry) Young Investigator Award
  • 2024/05 - United Japanese researchers Around the world (UJA) Outstanding Paper Award Tagging active neurons by soma-targeted Cal-Light
  • 2021/08 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowship
  • 2019/02 - Glia Club Award Roles of the schizophrenia related gene Setd1a in synaptic transmission in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex and disease-related behavior
  • 2017/12 - National Institute for Physiological Sciences Young Presentation Award, Jisedai-no Symposium Knockdown analysis of schizophrenia-related molecule setd1a in synapse development of mouse medial prefrontal cortex
Association Membership(s) (4):
Japanese Society for Biological Psychiatry ,  Society for Neuroscience ,  The Physiological Society of Japan ,  The Japan Neuroscience Society
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