Takashi Tominaga
Takashi Tominaga, Ph.D., is a Professor at Institute of Neuroscience and Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tokushima Bunri University. He received his B.S (Biology) and Ph.D. (Biology) from the University of Tsukuba (Prof. Yutaka Naitoh). He was a staff scientist in the Laboratory for Brain Operative Devices (Team Leader: Michinori Ichikawa, Ph.D.), Brain-way Group (Group Leader: Gen Matsumoto, Ph.D.) at Riken Brain Science Insitute (BSI) as one of the starting scientists since 1997. He was also a visiting scientist of Prof. Liu Guosong's Laboratory at RIKEN-MIT 2004-2005 and Prof. Susumu Tonegawa's Laboratory at MIT 2008. He has been developing an imaging method to analyze how brain circuit performs complex information processing with use of voltage-sensitive dye (VSD). Especially he is interested in the mechanism how hippocampus and entorhinal cortex contribute to episodic memory at the single cell and circuit levels in healthy and diseased brains.
Professor Tominaga's current research focuses on an understanding of how neural circuits in the brain performs complex information processing and how dysfunction in these circuits leads to neuropsychiatric disorders such as ASD, AD, schizophrenia, depression, and PTSD. He is enthusiastic to develop optical recording techniques of brain circuit functions with VSD and GEVI.
Takashi Tominaga, Ph.D.
Professor of the Institute of Neuroscience, Tokushima Bunri University,
Professor of the Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University
