Professor ABE Kentaro
| Campus | Katahira campus |
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| Laboratory |
Brain Development
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| Tel | +81-22-217-6228 |
| k.abe＠tohoku.ac.jp | |
| Website | http://kntrb.org/ResearchJP.html http://kntrb.org/ |
| Career |
2002 BSc: Kyoto University.
2004 MSc: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University. 2007 Ph.D.: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University. 2007－2007 PostDoc: RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology 2007－2013 Instructor Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University. 2010－2016 PRESTO researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency 2013－2017 Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University 2017－ Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University |
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| Selected Publications |
Chenyi Song, Mizuki Fujibayashi, Kentaro Abe. High-Throughput Assessment of Vocal Modulation Following Chemogenetic Inhibition in Songbirds. iScience, 114981, (2026)
Hajime Yamamoto, Satomi Araki, Ryoma Onodera, Yasuhiro Go, Kentaro Abe. Transcription factors Lef1 and Rest stimulate recovery from depressive states. Neuropsychopharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-025-02259-0, (2025)
Hajime Yamamoto, Kentaro Abe. Distinct genetic responses to fluoxetine sertraline and citalopram in mouse cortical neurons iScience, 113800, (2025)
Kentaro Abe Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain
Neuroscience Research, 214, 16-22, (2025) Mizuki Fujibayashi, Kentaro Abe. A behavioral analysis system MCFBM enables objective inference of songbirds’ attention during social interactions. Cell Reports Methods, 100844, (2024)
Takuto Kawaji, Mizuki Fujibayashi, Kentaro Abe. Goal-directed and flexible modulation of syllable sequence within birdsong. Nature Communications, 15(1) 3419-3419, (2024)
Hitomi Abe, Kentaro Abe. PCR-based profiling of transcription factor activity in vivo by a virus-based reporter battery. iScience 25(3) 103927-103927, (2022)
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| Activities in Academic Societies |
Japan Society for Neuroscience: member
The Society for Neuroscience: member |
| Teaching |
Neuroscience I, Life Science B
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Recent Activities
We have created an experimental system to analyze “nature” and “nurture” in postnatal development of animals, a system to observe the brain plasticity of freely moving animals, and a method to analyze the activities of multiple transcription factors in the adult brain.