Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Dr. Alexandra Joyner, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY,
May 2004-January 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Dr. Alexandra Joyner, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
2002-2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University with Dr. Nakamura
2002
Ph.D. Tohoku University, Graduate School of Medicine
1996
B.S. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Publications:
Katahira, T., Sato, T., Sugiyama, S., Okafuji, T., Araki, I., Funahashi, J. & Nakamura, H. (2000). Interaction between Otx2 and Gbx2 defines the organizing center for the optic tectum, Mechanisms of Development, 91: 43-52,
Watanabe, Y., Katahira, T., Sato, T. & Nakamura, H. (2000). Molecular Mechanisms for Defining Tectum Territory in Chick Embryogenesis Acta Histochem. Cytochem. 33: 1-4,
Sato, T., Araki, I. & Nakamura, H. (2001) Inductive signal and tissue responsiveness defining the tectum and the cerebellum. Development, 128: 2461-2469,
Nakamura, H., Katahira, T., Sato, T., Watanabe, Y. & Funahashi, J.(2004)
Gain- and loss-of-function in chick embryos by electroporation. Mechanisms of Development, 121: 1137-1143,
Sato, T. & Nakamura, H. (2004) The Fgf8 signal causes cerebellar differentiation by activating the Ras-ERK pathway. Development, 131: 4275-4285,
Sato, T., Joyner, A. L. & Nakamura, H. (2004). How does Fgf signaling from the isthmic organizer induce midbrain and cerebellum development? Dev. Growth Differ. 46: 487-494,
Suzuki-Hirano, A., Sato, T. & Nakamura, H. (2005) Regulation of isthmic Fgf8 signal by sprouty2. Development, 132: 257-265,
Nakamura, H., Katahira, T., Matsunaga, E. & Sato, T. (2005), Isthmus organizer for midbrain and hindbrain development. Brain Res. Reviews, 49: 120-126,
Research Interests:
I. Genetic fate mapping analysis in the Midbrain/hindbrain boundary (isthmic) re-gion
II. Role of Fgf signaling in tectum and cerebellum development using conditional knock-out and knock-in approaches.
