YONEHARA Keisuke D.V.M., Ph.D.
From Yokohama, Kanagawa
Hobbies: hot springs, reading books, driving, sci-fi movies, walking my dog
Interest: Humanity 100 and 1000 years later, disruptive technologies
Email: keisuke.yonehara@nig.ac.jp
Yonehara studied veterinary physiology in the Masugi Nishihara Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. In the laboratory of Masaharu Noda at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Japan, he succeeded in genetically labeling directionally selective ganglion cells in the retina and studied their morphology and development. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Botond Roska lab at FMI Basel, he studied the development and function of directionally selective neuronal circuits in the retina and diseases while learning new electrophysiology and functional imaging. He then led a laboratory at the DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark, where he researched neural circuits in the retina, the superior colliculus, and the visual cortex. In 2021, he joined the National Institute of Genetics, where he will begin research on the structure of the marmoset visual system and the development of genetic therapies for treating life-threatening diseases, in addition to his previous work with mice.
Education and Research Experiences
| 2003 | B.S. in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo (Masugi Nishihara lab) |
| 2008 | PhD. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Department of Basic Biology, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) (Masaharu Noda lab) |
| 2009- | Postdoc, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel (Botond Roska lab) |
| 2015- | Associate Professor / Group Leader, Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience – DANDRITE. Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark. |
| 2020- | JST PRESTO researcher, concurrent |
| 2021- | Professor, National Institute of Genetics |
Honours
| 2020 | Ascending Investigator, Lundbeck Foundation |
| 2016 | SWISS OphthAWARD |
| 2016 | AIAS Associate |
| 2015 | Young Investigator Award, Japan Neuroscience Society |
| 2014 | ERC Starting Grant |
| 2014 | Max M. Burger Prize, FMI |
| 2013 | Visual Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, Cambridge Press |
| 2012 | JSPS Research Fellowship for Study Abroad |
| 2010 | EMBO Long-Term Fellowship |
| 2004 | JSPS Research Fellowship DC2 |
Interviews
FMI 1.2014
National Institute of Basic Biology （3.2015）
Japan Neuroscience Society （summer 2015）
JST Paris（16.5.2016）
Nordic EMBL（6.2021）