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
 

1. Kentaro Abe*, Sumiko Matsui and Dai Watanabe*. Transgenic songbirds with suppressed or enhanced activity of CREB transcription factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A, 112(24):7599-604, (2015).
2. Kentaro Abe* and Dai Watanabe. Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules. Nature Neuroscience, 14(8):1067-73, (2011).    
3. Kentaro Abe*. Neural activity-dependent regulation of gene expression in developing and mature neurons. Dev. Growth Differ., 50(4):261-71, (2008).
4. Kentaro Abe and Masatoshi Takeichi. EPLIN mediates linkage of the cadherin-catenin complex to F-actin and stabilizes the circumferential actin belt. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A., 105(1):13-9 (2008).
5. Kentaro Abe and Masatoshi Takeichi.NMDA receptor activation induces calpain-mediated beta-catenin cleavages for triggering gene expression. Neuron, 53(3):387-97, (2007).
6. Masatoshi Takeichi and Kentaro Abe. Synaptic Contact Dynamics Controlled by Cadherin and Catenins. Trends in Cell Biology, 15(4):216-21, (2005).
7. Kentaro Abe  Osamu Chisaka , Frans van Roy. and Masatoshi Takeichi. Stability of dendritic spines and synaptic contacts is controlled by alphaN-catenin. Nature Neuroscience , 7(4):357-63, (2004).
8. Hideru Togashi, Kentaro Abe, Akira Mizoguchi, Kanna Takaoka, Osamu Chisaka and Masatoshi Takeichi. Cadherin Regulates Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis. Neuron, 35,77-89, (2002).

Neuroscience I, Life Science B