- April 01, 2014
- This project has been completed on March 31, 2014
- May 10, 2014
- FIRST EXPO 2014 in Shinjuku, Tokyo on February 28-March 1, 2014
- May 07, 2014
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2013.
- January 17, 2014
- FIRST EXPO will be held on February 28-March 1, 2014
- January 17, 2014
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2013.
- December 13, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2013.
- September 10, 2013
- Marmoset related information page was updated.
- September 3, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2013.
- August 13, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2013.
- August 13, 2013
- Event report on our fourth progress seminar which was held on Tuesday, July 30, 2013.
- July 19, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2012.
- July 10, 2013
- Dr. Fred Gage visited RIKEN-Keio Univ. Joint Research Lab
- July 4, 2013
- MCCS-Asia 6th Annual Meeting in Kyoto, Japan
- June 28, 2013
- FIRST Program Special Seminar
- May 09, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2012.
- April 24, 2013
- FIRST Program researchers will speak at a satellite symposium of Neuro2013 (The 6th MCCS-Asia Symposium: Molecular, Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms underlying Cognition) on Wed. June 19, 2013.
- March 16, 2013
- Report on Science Festa in Kyoto2013.
- March 13, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2012.
- Feburary 19, 2013
- Our research paper was featured in scientific reports page in Nature Asia-Pacific.
Distinct Feedforward and Intrinsic Neurons in Posterior Inferotemporal Cortex Revealed by in Vivo Connection Imaging - Feburary 15, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2012.
- January 30, 2013
- Our research paper was selected for the cover of Neuroscience Vol. 230 issued 29 January 2013.
- January 21, 2013
- Journal Papers were added to Achievements for FY2012.
- November 10-11, 2012
- We exhibited a booth in “Science Forum 3” in Odaiba, Tokyo.
- November 26, 2012
- International Symposium APRU-BMAP2012/FIRST 2012
“Diseases and Evolution of the Brain and Mind” Aug.29-31, 2012 - November 16, 2012
- Achievements were updated for FY2012.
- July 10, 2012
- Our research result was published in the journal below.
Purinergic Signaling Promotes Proliferation of Adult Mouse Subventricular Zone Cells.
Suyama S, Sunabori T, Kanki H, Sawamoto K, Gachet C, Koizumi S, Okano H.
J Neurosci. 2012 Jul 4;32(27):9238-9247.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/27/9238.long - June 14, 2012
- Call for Registration for BMAP2012"Diseases and Evolution of Brain and Mind"
http://www.bmap2012.jp/
The symposium will be organized by Keio University and FIRST program will be one of the co-organizers. - June 11, 2012
- We uploaded short movies of International Symposium "Neural Development:Stem Cell Perspective".
- May 18, 2012
- JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) now shows videos of FIRST Program researchers on their website.
http://www.jst.go.jp/first/about-us/okano-hideyuki.html
You can also view the same videos through
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/Forumoffice)
and Nico Nico Douga(http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1336620445). - May 18, 2012
- We invited Dr. Simon Fisher (Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmengen, the Netherlands) to our FIRST Program Special Seminar on March 19, 2012.
- March 9, 2012
- Event report on “Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective” is on RIKEN RESEARCH website:
http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/roundup/6970 - February 23, 2012
- Event report on International Symposium "Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective", which was held on January 17-18, 2012.
- January 30, 2012
- International Symposium "Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective" is over. We will soon upload the event report.
- December 1, 2011
- International Symposium "Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective" will be held on Tuesday-Wednesday, January 17-18,2012.
- August 1, 2011
- Event report on our second progress seminar, which was held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
- June 10, 2011
- Special Exhibition is scheduled at Miraikan, Tokyo during June 11(Sat) -July 24(Sun).
"TOP OF THE TOP! - 30 Researchers Aiming for the Top of the World" Exhibition - April 11, 2011
- Event report on FIRST SCIENCE FORUM, Future Exploration by "Top Scientists and Students", which was held on February 13, 2011.
- March 31, 2011
- Event report on International Symposium "Biology of Mind～Toward a Human Evolutionary Perspective", which was held on February 3, 2011.
- February 16, 2011
- Our research result was published in the journals below:
- Hikishima K, Quallo MM, Komaki Y, Yamada M, Kawai K, Momoshima S, Okano HJ, Sasaki E, Tamaoki N, Lemon RN, Iriki A, Okano H: Population-averaged Standard Template Brain Atlas for the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). NeuroImage 54(4):2741-2749, 2011
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21044887 - Sawamoto K, Hirota Y, Alfaro-Cervello C, Soriano-Navarro M, He X, Hayakawa-Yano Y, Yamada M, Hikishima K, Tabata H, Iwanami A, Nakajima K, Toyama Y, Itoh T, Alvarez-Buylla A, Garcia-Verdugo JM, and Okano H: Cellular composition and organization of the subventricular zone and rostral migratory stream in the adult and neonatal common marmoset brain. J. Comp. Neurol. 519(4):690-713, 2011
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21246550
- Hikishima K, Quallo MM, Komaki Y, Yamada M, Kawai K, Momoshima S, Okano HJ, Sasaki E, Tamaoki N, Lemon RN, Iriki A, Okano H: Population-averaged Standard Template Brain Atlas for the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). NeuroImage 54(4):2741-2749, 2011
- February 8, 2011
- International Symposium "Biology of Mind～Toward a Human Evolutionary Perspective" was over. We will soon upload the event report.
- January 21, 2011
- FIRST Program Special Seminar will be held on Friday, February 4, 2011 at Keio University Shinanomachi Campus.
Lecturers:
- Dr. Ganeshwaran H. Mochida (Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School)
- Dr. Wieland Huttner (Max Planck Institute Dresden)
- Dr. Arnold Kriegstein (Eli and Edyth Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco)
- January 17, 2011
- One of the lecturers was changed in the symposium "Biology of Mind".
- Old: Shigeru Watanabe, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
New: Eiichi Izawa, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University
- Old: Shigeru Watanabe, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
- December 24, 2010
- We will hold an International Symposium "Biology of Mind～Toward a Human Evolutionary Perspective" on Thursday, February 3, 2011.
- December 24, 2010
- FIRST SCIENCE FORUM, Future Exploration by Top Scientists and Students" will be held on February 13, 2011.
- December 24, 2010
- FIRST Program Seminar will be held on Monday, December 27, 2010 with the lecturer Toshiaki Nose of Shiga University of Medical Science.
- December 8, 2010
- Our research result was published in the journals below.
- Gene targeting and subsequent site-specific transgenesis at the β-actin (ACTB) locus in common marmoset embryonic stem cells. Shiozawa S, Kawai K, Okada Y, Tomioka I, Maeda T, Kanda A, Shinohara H, Suemizu H, Okano HJ, Sotomaru Y, Sasaki E, Okano H. Stem Cells Dev. 2010 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21126169
- Gene targeting and subsequent site-specific transgenesis at the β-actin (ACTB) locus in common marmoset embryonic stem cells. Shiozawa S, Kawai K, Okada Y, Tomioka I, Maeda T, Kanda A, Shinohara H, Suemizu H, Okano HJ, Sotomaru Y, Sasaki E, Okano H. Stem Cells Dev. 2010 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print]
- November 18, 2010
- Our research result was published in the journals below.
- Yamazaki Y, Iriki A, Watanabe S. Modulation of physical understanding by common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Anim Cogn, in press, E-pub ahead of print, 2010 Sep 10.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20830498 - Hikishima K, Quallo MM, Komaki Y, Yamada M, Kawai K, Momoshima S, Okano HJ, Sasaki E, Tamaoki N, Lemon RN, Iriki A, Okano H. Population-averaged standard template brain atlas for the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Neuroimage, in press, E-pub ahead of print, 2010 Oct 28.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21044887
- Yamazaki Y, Iriki A, Watanabe S. Modulation of physical understanding by common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Anim Cogn, in press, E-pub ahead of print, 2010 Sep 10.
- October 8, 2010
- Our website has opened.
