Lab Members

 

 


 

Manabu TANIFUJI
Lab Head


1978-'82: Osaka University, School of Engineering Science
1982: Bachelor of Engineering Science
1982-'87: Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering Science
1987: Doctor of Engineering

Appointments:
1987-92: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences
1992-96: Associate Professor, Fukui University, Department of Information Science
1994-97: PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency
1996-97: Researcher, Frontier Research System, RIKEN
1997-pesent: Lab. Head, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2000-03: Adjunct Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2007-present: Visiting Professor, Waseda University
2011-psesent: Adjunct Professor, National Yang-Ming University, School of Life Science,
Institute of Neuroscience (Taiwan)
2011-prsesent: Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences


Go UCHIDA
Research Specialist

Ph.D.in Applied Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, 1992
Project: To reveal functional architecture of inferior temporal cortex in terms of correlation of spike activity  
e-mail: guchida@brain.riken.jp

 


Takayuki SATO
Research Associate

M.Sc. in Medical Science, Univ. of Tsukuba, 2000
Project: Characterization of columnar organization in Area TE optical imaging and electrophysiology. e-mail: takayuki@brain.riken.jp

 


Noriko KATSUMATA
Research Scientist

Ph.D. in Physiology, 2008, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
M.Sc in Medical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
B.A in Psychology, Sophia University

 


Yu NAKAMICHI
Research Scientist

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2010, Graduate School of Medicine,
Yamaguchi University
2009-2010, JSPS Reseach Fellow (DC2)

 

 


Kazunori O'HASHI
Research Scientist


Ph.D. in Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2007


 

 


Uma Maheswari RAJAGOPALAN
Research Consultant

Apr. '06 -: Research consultant, conducting research on functional imaging of brain in rat olfactory and cat visual cortices.
Apr. ’13 -: Lecturer for English (part-time), Toyo University

Apr. ’12-: Lecturer for Technical English (part-time), The University of Electro-Communications

Mar. '98-'06: Research scientist, Riken BSI, development of optical coherence tomography for depth resolved functional imaging of brain.
'93-'98: Research Scientist, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology.
Ph.D(Engineering) Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 1991.
M.Tech(Applied Optics) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India. 1987.
M.Sc.(Physics) American College,Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. 1985.
Her current research interests include Optical technology for neuroscience, Near-field optics and its fundamentals, Application of new optical measurement techniques for exploring biology, Diffractive optics, Information processing and cognitive neuroscience.
e-mail: uma@brain.riken.go.jp

 


Naohisa MIYAKAWA
Visiting Scientist


Ph.D. in Medical Science, 2005, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Main Affiliation:
Department of Ultrastructural Research,
National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP

 


Wataru SUZUKI
Visiting Scientist

Main Affiliation:
Department of Ultrastructural Research,
National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP




Kazushige TSUNODA, M.D., Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist

Research interest:
Intrinsic Signal Imaging of Neural Function (IT, V1 and Retina)
Main Affiliation:

Lab. Head, Lab. of Visual Physiology, National Institute of Sensory Organs



Kei HAGIYA
Technical Staff



 


Hideyuki WATANABE
Technical Staff

 

 




Naohito KITAMURA
Technical Staff

 

 

 


Sanae HOSOTANI
Technical Staff

 

   

 



T. IKARI
Assistant


 

 

 



Alumni

Research Scientists

Ryusuke HAYASHI

Ryosuke NIIMI

 

Michel Vidal-Naquet

 

Hisashi TANIGAWA

 

Mitsuhiro FUKUDA

 

Ryota HOMMA

 

HongBin LI

 

Yukako YAMANE

Reseach Associate

Lin Chia-pei

Visiting Scientists

Kei IGARASHI

Gen HANAZONO

Yoko KAZATO

Koichi INOMATA

Valery KALATSKY

Zoltan KISVARDAY

Technical Staff

Mehrdad SEIRAFI

Summer Program Participants

Garga CHATTERJEE (2005)

 

Jyoti MISHRA (2004)

David SCHOPPIK (2003)

Student Trainee

Hiroko TAKAHASHI (2007)

NSF Summer Institute Fellow

Justin L. GARDNER (1997)

JISTEC Winter Institute Fellow

Eun Jin YOON (2008)

 

 

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