Dr. Suzuki received his PhD degree from our Graduate School on the neural activity-dependent proteolysis and synaptic plasticity of the synaptic adhesion molecule neuroligin 1 (Suzuki et al., 2012). Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at Keio University School of Medicine, where he analyzed microglial dynamics by in vivo two-photon imaging (Sun et al., 2019) and developed artificial synaptic guidance molecules (synaptic organizers) to restore injured neural circuits (Suzuki et al., 2020). Currently at the MRC LMB, he studies the interactions between neurons, glial cells, and extracellular matrices in terms of molecular structure and function to elucidate new mechanisms that will lead to drug discovery.
Date: 28th July, 2023
Time: Lecture 13:00-14:00, Discussion 1430-1630
Venue: Lecture at Graduate School Lecture Room of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Discussion at Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Moderator: Taisuke Tomita, Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Moderator
Taisuke Tomita
Professor
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The University of Tokyo
Taisuke Tomita is a Professor in Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), whose research field interests include neurology, psychiatry, cell biology, neuroscience, and molecular biology. Prof. Tomita has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including Erwin von Balz prize in 2011, Basic Research award from the Japan Society for Dementia Research in 2013, a NAGASE Science and Technology Foundation Award in 2015 as well as SHIMAZDU young researcher award in 2018. Prof. Tomita is a director of the Japan Society for Dementia Research (from 2017).
Prof. Tomita received his B.S. (1995), M.S. (1997), and Ph.D. (2000) in Pharmaceutical Science from UTokyo, and has been a Visiting Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis where he conducted research on Notch biology under a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship for research abroad (2004-2005). He first held the position of Instructor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UTokyo (1997-2003), then becoming an Assistant Professor (2003-2006), Associate Professor (2006-2014), and was appointed to his current position of Professor in 2014. He is also appointed to an Adjunct Professor in Laboratory of Brain and Neurological Disorders, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan (from 2017).
Speaker
Kunimichi Suzuki
Visiting Scientist in Radu Aricescu laboratory in Neurobiology division at MRC-LMB
Kunimichi Suzuki is a Visiting Scientist in Radu Aricescu laboratory in Neurobiology division at MRC-LMB. He was graduated from the University of Tokyo and trained in Keio University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow. He works on the research about the synapse organizing molecules such as neurexins, cerebellins, and neuroligins, to elucidate their regulatory mechanism mediated by the proteolytic cleavage and to develop structure-guided artificial synapse organizers as therapeutic tools to restore synapses in the disease model mouse.