Neurosalience #S3E16 with Hiromasa Takemura - From tract tracing to systems neuroscience
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Today our guest is Hiromasa Takemura, the 2022 OHBM Early Career Investigator Award winner! He is the 26th recipient of this prestigious award, joining a group of investigators who made an impact early in their career, and have continued to do so.\\xa0Dr Takemura\\u2019s work has impacted the field mostly as it has traversed between tract tracing and basic systems neuroscience. In combining those two fields his impact has been enormous.
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\\nDr Takemura is a professor in the Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping in the Department of System Neuroscience and also a professor at the International Research for Collaboration Centre of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences and the National Institutes for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki Japan. He is the senior researcher at the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet)\\xa0and the Advanced ICT Research Institute at National institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), in Osaka, Japan.
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\\nIn 2007 he received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Tokyo. Following this, in 2009 he received his M.A. in Multidisciplinary Studies also at the University of Tokyo. Finally, in 2012 he received his P.hD from the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo under his advisor Ikuya Murakami. From 2012-2015 he went to Stanford to work with Brian Wandell.
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\\nEpisode producers:
\\nOmer Faruk Gulban
\\nAlfie Wearn
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\\nBrain Art
\\nArtist: Marc Ramos
\\nTitle: Venus Brain
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\\nPlease send any feedback, guest suggestions, or ideas to ohbm.comcom@gmail.com
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