Jinta Kasai has finsihed his Master thesis. All the best for your new job!

We are happy to announce that this year we will be participating in Hokkaido Summer Institute with 2 new courses:

Undergraduate level: Fundamentals of Comparative Neuroanatomy and Behaviour: from birds to whales

The objective of this course is to give the students an overview of the different ways the brain and behaviour evolved in separate, but closely related vertebrate classes.

Postgraduate level: Mammalian Brain Morphology: From specimen collection to mathematical modeling

The aim of this course is to demonstrate the use of an integrated set of multidisciplinary methods, ranging from neuroanatomy to MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) processing to theoretical modeling, to better understand brain morphology of large mammals (e.g. Whales).

Early Online Application period: February 1-15, 2021

In a serious of publication in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, in collaboration with the laboratory of Paul Manger, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, we examined the anatomy of the amygdala, the diencephalon and the hippocampus of the feliform banded mongoose and the caniform domestic ferret.

Minasa (left) and Suzuka (right) are 4th year students who joined our lab this April. Minasa will be working on the amygdala of whales and Suzuka will analyses the hippocampus of Pinnipeds. Welcome and good luck!

This talk has been postponed to a later date. The new date will be announced  as soon as it is established!

Dr. Hiromasa Takemura, from the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Osaka, will   present his exciting research on white matter pathways. 6th of March in Room 407 (4^th fl.) – Science #5 bld. 15:00 -16:00. Everyone is welcome!!!

Our new addition to the lab: a 3D printed  Baird’s beak whale (40% original size, left) and Sika deer brain (70% of original size, right).

Nina was invited to give a talk at the 41^th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (JSCPB2019), Symposium: Comparative and evolutionary approaches toward understanding the brain architecture. Tokyo, Japan

Phua Yong Heng and Suzuka Iritani are Biology undergraduate students who joined our lab this October as Technical Assistants.  A big welcome!

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At this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting, Isabel and Jinta presented  posters on their current research. Thank you to everyone for stopping at our posters!!!

Are you interested in our work and want to meet and chat with us about our research. Come join us at the SfN2019!

Poster presentation:

B4, 20/10/2019 (10:00 – 11:00 AM)

CC76, 23/10/2019 (3:00 – 4:00 PM)