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Research findings by Tzu-Ting Huang and Dr. Ikue Mori’s team have been published in Aging Cell .

2020.10.22
Graduate student Tzu-Ting Huang and NSI Director Dr. Ikue Mori's team has revealed age-dependent changes in response property and morphology of a thermosensory neuron and learning behavior in C. elegans.

Huang, T., Matsuyama, HJ., Tsukada, Y., Singhvi, A., Syu, R., Lu, Y., Shaham, S., Mori, I., Pan, C. "Age‐dependent changes in response property and morphology of a thermosensory neuron and thermotaxis behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans" Aging Cell 19(5) (2020).

Research findings by Dr. Hironori J. Matsuyama and Dr. Ikue Mori’s team have been published in eNeuro.

2020.10.22
Dr. Hironori J. Matsuyama and NSI Director Dr. Ikue Mori's team has revealed the neural mechanism underlying temperature preference alteration depending on past feeding experience in C. elegans.

Matsuyama, HJ. and Mori, I. "Neural coding of thermal preferences in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans" eNeuro 7(3) (2020).

Research findings by Muneki Ikeda and Dr. Ikue Mori’s team have been published in PNAS.

2020.10.22
Graduate student Muneki Ikeda and NSI Director Dr. Ikue Mori's team has identified multiple neural pathways regulating behavioral components important for temperature learning behavior in C. elegans.

Ikeda, M., Nakano, S., Giles, AC., Xu, L., Costa, WS., Gottschalk, A., Mori, I. "Context-dependent operation of neural circuits underlies a navigation behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(11) (2020)

Research findings by Dr. Shunji Nakano and Dr. Ikue Mori’s team have been published in PNAS, and also covered by newspapers.

2020.01.18
The research team of Dr. Shunji Nakano and NSI Director Ikue Mori has identified the mechanism for temperature preference in C. elegans.

Their findings have been published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) on January 7th, and also featured in the Mainichi Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun.

Research findings by Dr. Hiroshi Ishimoto and Dr. Azusa Kamikouchi’s team have been published online in Current Biology.

2020.01.08
The research team of Dr. Hiroshi Ishimoto and Dr. Azusa Kamikouchi has identified in female fruit flies the brain mechanism for accepting males after repeated courtship.

Their findings have been published online in Current Biology on January 2nd, and also featured in the morning paper of the Chunichi Shimbun on January 3rd.

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