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Field

Integrative Life Sciences :
Brain and Nervous System

Research

Associate Professor KOGANEZAWA Masayuki
Campus Katahira campus
Laboratory Neuroethology
Tel +81-22-217-6220
E-mail masayuki.koganezawa.b3@tohoku.ac.jp

How do we deal with the biological state “I’m thinking”? Can perception, recognition, decision, planning, and other subjective states be explained by objective relationships? I stand on the assumption that all these phenomena can be interpreted at the level of neural function. Based on this viewpoint, I am exploring the neural circuitries underlying animal behaviors.

Career
1995 Completed a Master of Science at the Graduate School of Science of Tohoku University
2001 Doctorate of Science (Tohoku University)
1995-1998 Special Researcher (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1998-2005 Educational Affairs Staff, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
2005-2007 Assistant, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University
2007-2009 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University
2010 to Present Associate Professor, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University
Selected Publications

Yamamoto, D. and Koganezawa, M.
Genes and circuits of courtship behaviour in Drosophila males.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 681-692 (2013)

Kohatsu, S., Koganezawa, M., and Yamamoto, D.
Female contact activates male-specific interneurons that trigger stereotypic courtship behavior in Drosophila.
Neuron 69, 498-508 (2011)

Koganezawa, M., Haba, D., Matsuo, T., and Yamamoto, D.
The shaping of male courtship posture by lateralized gustatory inputs to male-specific interneurons.
Curr. Biol. 20, 1-8 (2010)

Koganezawa, M., Hara, H., Hayakawa, Y., and Shimada, I.
Memory effects on scale-free dynamics in foraging Drosophila.
J. Theor. Biol. 260, 353-358 (2009)

Activities in Academic Societies

The Zoological Society of Japan, The Japan Neuroscience Society, The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, The Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell, The Biophysical Society of Japan

Teaching

Natural Science Integrated Experiments (all freshmen)
Life Science C (all freshmen)
Neuroethology (juniors, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science)