Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:

Tomomi SHIMOGORI

Address:

2-1 Hirosawa Wako
Saitama, Japan
phone: 81-48-467-9779;
fax:81-48-467-9763;
e-mail: tomomi.shimogori@riken.jp

Education:

B.A. Hoshi Collage of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School,
Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

1993
1998

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1998 to 2004
2004 to 20102010 to 20182018 to present

Dept. Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Chicago, USA
Laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth A. Grove
RIKEN BSI Unit Leader of Shimogori Research Unit
RIKEN BSI Team Leader of Lab for Molecular Mechanisms of Thalamus
Development
RIKEN CBS Team Leader of Lab for Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Development

PUBLICATIONS
1.

He Y, Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Shirahata A, Igarashi K. (1995) Inhibition of cell growth by combinationofalpha-difluoromethylornithine and an inhibitor of spermine synthase. J Biochem. 117:824-9.
2.

Igarashi K, Koga K, He Y, Shimogori T, Ekimoto H, Kashiwagi K, Shirahata A. (1995) Inhibition of the growthof various human and mouse tumor cells by

1,15-bis(ethylamino)-4,8,12-triazapentadecane.

Cancer Res. 55:2615-9.
3.

Shimogori T, Suzuki T, Kashiwagi K, Kakinuma Y, Igarashi K. (1996) Enhancement of helicase activity andincrease of eIF-4E phosphorylation in ornithine decarboxylase-overproducing cells. Biochem
Biophys Res Commun. 222:748-52.

4.

Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K. (1996) Spermidine regulation of protein synthesis at the level of
initiation complex formation of Met-tRNAi, mRNA and ribosomes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun.
223:544-8.

5.

Sakata K, Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K. (1997) Protein Identification of regulatory region ofantizyme necessary for the negative regulation of polyamine transport. Biochem Biophys Res
Commun. 238:415-9.

6.

Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Ishii I, Kashiwagi K, Mashiba H, Ekimoto H, Igarashi K. (1997) Malignant transformationby overproduction of translation initiation factor eIF4G. Cancer Res. 57:5041-4.

7.

Shibata M, Shinga J, Yasuhiko Y, Kai M, Miura K, Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K, Shiokawa K. (1998)
Overexpression of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) in early Xenopus embryos
induces cell dissociation and inhibits transition from the blastula to gastrula stage. Int J Dev Biol.
42:675-86.

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8.

Meksuriyen D, Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Tomitori H, Kashiwagi K, Toida T, Imanari T, Kawai G, Igarashi K. (1998)
Formation of a complex containing ATP, Mg2+, and spermine. Structural evidence and biologicalsignificance. J Biol Chem. 273:30939-44.

9.

Antognoni F, Del Duca S, Kuraishi A, Kawabe E, Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K. (1999)
Transcriptional inhibition of the operon for the spermidine uptake system by the substrate-binding
protein PotD. J Biol Chem. 274:1942-8.

10.

Iwata S, Sato Y, Asada M, Takagi M, Tsujimoto A, Inaba T, Yamada T, Sakamoto S, Yata J, Shimogori T,
Igarashi K, Mizutani S. (1999) Anti-tumor activity of antizyme which targets the ornithine
decarboxylase (ODC) required for cell growth and transformation. Oncogene. 18:165-72.

11.

Hayashi S, Nishimura K, Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K. (2000) Increase in cap- andIRES-dependent protein synthesis by overproduction of translation initiation factor eIF4G.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 277:117-23.

12.

Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Grove EA. (2001) Neocortex patterning by the secreted signaling molecule FGF8.
Science. 294:1071-4.

13.

Nishimura K, Ohki Y, Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Sakata K, Saiga K, Beppu T, Shirahata A, Kashiwagi K, Igarashi K.
(2002) Inhibition of cell growth through inactivation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A(eIF5A) by deoxyspergualin. Biochem J. 363:761-8.

14.

Grove EA and Fukuchi-Shimogori T. (2003) Development of the vertebrate forebrain. Ann. Rev. Neurosci.
26:355-80.

15.

Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Grove EA. (2003) Emx2 Patterns the Neocortex by Regulating FGF Positional Signaling.
Nat Neurosci. 8:825-31.

16.

Shimogori T., VanSant J, Paik ES, and Grove EA. (2004) Members of the Wnt, Fz, and Frp gene families
expressed in postnatal mouse cerebral cortex. J Comp Neurol. 473:496-510.

17.

Shimogori T., Banuchi V., Ng HY., Strauss JB. and Grove EA. (2004) Embryonic signaling centers expressing
BMP, Wnt and FGF proteins interact to pattern the cerebral cortex. Development. 13:5639-47.

18.

Shimogori T and Grove EA. (2005) FGF8 Regulates Neocortical Guidance of Area-specific Thalamic
Innervation. J Neurosci. 13:6550-60.

19.

Sasaki T, Nishihara H, Hirakawa M, Fujimura K, Tanaka M, Kokubo N, Kimura-Yoshida C, Matsuo I, Sumiyama
K, Saitou N, Shimogori T, Okada N. (2008) Possible involvement of SINEs in mammalian-specificbrain formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:4220-5.

20.

Shimogori T and Ogawa M. (2008) Gene application with in utero electroporation in mouse embryonic brain.
Dev Growth Differ. 50:499-506 (review).

21.

Imayoshi I, Shimogori T, Ohtsuka T and Kageyama R. (2008) Hes genes and neurogenin regulate non-neuralversus neural fate specification in the dorsal telencephalic midline. Development. 135:2531-41.

22.

Kataoka A and Shimogori T. (2008) FGF8 controls regional identity in the developing thalamus. Development.
135:2873-812

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23.

Kinameri E, Inoue T, Aruga J, Imayoshi I, Kageyama R, Shimogori T* and Moore AW*. (2008) Prdm
proto-oncogene transcription factor family expression and interaction with the Notch-Hes
pathway in mouse neurogenesis. PLoS ONE. 3:e3859. *corresponding authors

24.

Suzuki-Hirano A and Shimogori T. (2009) The role of Fgf8 in telencephalic and diencephalic patterning.
Semin. Cell. Devbiol. 20:719-725 (review).

25.

Fabre P, Shimogori T, Charron F. (2010) Segregation of ipsilateral retinal ganglion cell axons at the optic
chiasm requires the Shh receptor Boc. J Neurosci. 30:266-75.

26.

Aggarwal M, Mori S, Shimogori T, Blackshaw S, Zhang J. (2010) Three dimentional rapid diffusion tensor
microimaging for anatomical characterization and gene expression mapping the mouse brain.
Journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 64:249-261.

27.

Shimogori T*, Lee DA, Miranda-Angulo A, Yang Y, Jiang L, Yoshida AC, Kataoka A, Mashiko H, Avetisyan M, Qi
L, Qian J, and Blackshaw S*. (2010) A genomic atlas of mouse hypothalamic development. Nat
Neurosci. 13:767-75. *corresponding authors.

28.

Okada N, Sasaki T, Shimogori T, Nishihara H. (2010) Emergence of mammals by emergency: exaptation.
Genes Cells. 15:801-12.

29.

Toyoda R, Assimacopoulos S, Wilcoxon J, Taylor A, Feldman P, Suzuki-Hirano A, Shimogori T, Grove EA.
(2010) FGF8 acts as a classic diffusible morphogen to pattern the neocortex. Development
137:3439-48.

30.

Blackshaw S, Scholpp S, Placzek M, Ingraham H, Simerly R, Shimogori T. (2010) Molecular pathways
controlling development of thalamus and hypothalamus: from neural specification to circuit
formation. J Neurosci. 30:14925-30. Review.

31.

Suzuki-Hirano A, Ogawa M, Kataoka A, Yoshida AC, Itoh D, Ueno M, Blackshaw S, Shimogori T. (2011)
Dynamic spatiotemporal gene expression in embryonic mouse thalamus. J Comp Neurol. 519:
528-43.

32.

Yuge K, Kataoka A, Yoshida AC, Itoh D, Aggarwal M, Mori S, Blackshaw S, Shimogori T. (2011) Region-specificexpression in early postnatal mouse thalamus. J Comp Neurol. 519:544-61.

33.

Matsui A, Yoshida AC, Kubota M, Ogawa M and Shimogori T. (2011) Mouse in utero electroporation:
Controlled spatio-temporal gene transefection. J Vis Exp. 54 pii:3024.

34.

Hama H, Kurokawa H, Kawano H, Ando R, Shimogori T, Noda H, Fukami K, Sakaue-Sawano A, Miyawaki A.
(2011) Scale: a chemical approach for fluorescence imaging and reconstruction of transparent
mouse brain. Nature Neurosci. 14:1481-8.

35.

Chiara F, Badaloni A, Croci L, Yeh ML, Cariboni A, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Consalez GG, Eickholt B, Shimogori
T, Parnavelas JG, Rakić S. (2012) Early B-cell factors 2 and 3 (EBF2/3) regulate early migration of
Cajal-Retzius cells from the cortical hem. Dev Biol. 365:277-89.

36.

Mashiko H, Yoshida AC, Kikuchi SS, Niimi K, Takahashi E, Aruga J, Okano H, Shimogori T. (2012) Comparative
anatomy of marmoset and mouse cortex from genomic expression. J Neurosci. 32:5039-53.

37.

Nakagawa Y, Shimogori T. (2012) Diversity of thalamic progenitor cells and postmitotic neurons. Eur J
Neurosci. 35:1554-62. (review)38.

Nakanishi A, Kobayashi N, Suzuki-Hirano A, Nishihara H, Sasaki T, Hirakawa M, Sumiyama K, Shimogori T,

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Okada N. (2012) A SINE-derived element constitutes a unique modular enhancer for mammalian
diencephalic Fgf8. PLoS One. 7:e43785
39.

Huilgol D, Udin S, Shimogori T, Saha B, Roy A, Aizawa S, Hevner RF, Meyer G, Ohshima T, Pleasure SJ, Zhao Y,
Tole S. (2013) Dual origins of the mammalian accessory olfactory bulb revealed by anevolutionarily conserved migratory stream. Nat Neurosci. 16:157-65. doi: 10.1038/nn.3297.

40.

Kumagai A, Ando R, Miyatake H, Greimel P, Kobayashi T, Hirabayashi Y, Shimogori T, Miyawaki A. (2013) A
bilirubin-inducible fluorescent protein from eel muscle. Cell 153:1602-11. doi:
10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.038.

41.

Matsui A, Tran M, Yoshida AC, Kikuchi SS, U M, Ogawa M, Shimogori T. (2013) BTBD3 controls dendrite
orientation toward active axons in mammalian neocortex. Science 342:1114-8.
doi:10.1126/science.1244505.

42.

Forni PE, Bharti K, Flannery EM, Shimogori T, and Wray S. (2013) The Indirect Role of Fibroblast Growth
Factor-8 in Defining Neurogenic Niches of the Olfactory/GnRH Systems. J Neurosci.
33:19620-19634.

43.

Yamanaka T, Tosaki A, Kurosawa M, Matsumoto G, Koike M, Uchiyama Y, Maity SN, Shimogori T, Hattori N,
Nukina N. (2014) NF-Y inactivation causes atypical neurodegeneration characterized by ubiquitin
and p62 accumulation and endoplasmic reticulum disorganization. Nat Commun. 5:3354. doi:
10.1038/ncomms4354.

44.

Golding B, Pouchelon G, Bellone C, Murthy S, Di Nardo AA, Govindan S, Ogawa M, Shimogori T, Lüscher C,
Dayer A, Jabaudon D. (2014) Retinal input directs the recruitment of inhibitory interneurons intothalamic visual circuits. Neuron 81:1057-69. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.032.

45.

Yamanaka T, Wong HK, Tosaki A, Bauer PO, Wada K, Kurosawa M, Shimogori T, Hattori N, Nukina N. (2014)
Large-scale RNA interference screening in mammalian cells identifies novel regulators of mutant
huntingtin aggregation. PLoS One. 9:e93891. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093891.

46.

Caballero IM, Manuel MN, Molinek M, Quintana-Urzainqui I, Mi D, Shimogori T, Price DJ. (2014)
Cell-autonomous repression of shh by transcription factor pax6 regulates diencephalic patterningby controlling the central diencephalic organizer. Cell Rep. 8:1405-18. doi:
10.1016/j.celrep.2014.07.051.

47.

Kurosawa M, Matsumoto G, Kino Y, Okuno M, Kurosawa-Yamada M, Washizu C, Taniguchi H, Nakaso K,
Yanagawa T, Warabi E, Shimogori T, Sakurai T, Hattori N, Nukina N. (2015) Depletion of p62
reduces nuclear inclusions and paradoxically ameliorates disease phenotypes in Huntington'smodel mice. Hum Mol Genet. 24:1092-105. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu522.

48.

Miyazaki H, Oyama F, Inoue R, Aosaki T, Abe T, Kiyonari H, Kino Y, Kurosawa M, Shimizu J, Ogiwara I,
Yamakawa K, Koshimizu Y, Fujiyama F, Kaneko T, Shimizu H, Nagatomo K, Yamada K, Shimogori T,
Hattori N, Miura M, Nukina N. (2015) Singular localization of sodium channel β4 subunit inunmyelinated fibres and its role in the striatum. Nat Commun. 5:5525. doi:
10.1038/ncomms6525.

49.

Liu J, Merkle FT, Gandhi AV, Gagnon JA, Woods IG, Chiu CN, Shimogori T, Schier AF, Prober DA. (2015)
Evolutionarily conserved regulation of hypocretin neuron specification by Lhx9. Development

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142:1113-24. doi: 10.1242/dev.117424.
50.

Kino Y, Washizu C, Kurosawa M, Yamada M, Miyazaki H, Akagi T, Hashikawa T, Doi H, Takumi T, Hicks GG,
Hattori N, Shimogori T, Nukina N. (2015) FUS/TLS deficiency causes behavioral and pathologicalabnormalities distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 3:24. doi:
10.1186/s40478-015-0202-6.

51.

Matsumoto G, Shimogori T, Hattori N, Nukina N. (2015) TBK1 controls autophagosomal engulfment ofpolyubiquitinated mitochondria through p62/SQSTM1 phosphorylation. Hum Mol Genet.
24:4429-42. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddv179.

52.

Oomoto I, Suzuki-Hirano A, Umeshima H, Han YW, Yanagisawa H, Carlton P, Harada Y, Kengaku M,
Okamoto A, Shimogori T, Wang DO. (2015) ECHO-liveFISH: in vivo RNA labeling reveals
dynamic regulation of nuclear RNA foci in living tissues. Nucleic Acids Res. pii: gkv614.

53.

Kurosawa M, Matsumoto G, Sumikura H, Hatsuta H, Murayama S, Sakurai T, Shimogori T, Hattori N, Nukina
N. (2015) Serine 403-phosphorylated p62/SQSTM1 immunoreactivity in inclusions ofneurodegenerative diseases. Neurosci Res. pii: S0168-0102(15)00209-6. doi:
10.1016/j.neures.2015.08.002.

54.

Prochazka J, Prochazkova M, Du W, Spoutil F, Tureckova J, Hoch R, Shimogori T, Sedlacek R, Rubenstein JL,
Wittmann T, Klein OD. (2015) Migration of Founder Epithelial Cells Drives Proper Molar Tooth
Positioning and Morphogenesis. Dev Cell. 35:713-24. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.025.

55.

Yamanaka T, Tosaki A, Kurosawa M, Shimogori T, Hattori N, Nukina N. (2016) Genome-wide analyses inneuronal cells reveal that USF transcription factors regulate lysosomal gene expression. FEBS J.
doi: 10.1111/febs.13650.

56.

Minoura I, Takazaki H, Ayukawa R, Saruta C, Hachikubo Y, Uchimura S, Hida T, Kamiguchi H, Shimogori T,
Muto E. (2016) Reversal of axonal growth defects in an extraocular fibrosis model by engineering
the kinesin-microtubule interface. Nat Commun. 7:10058. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10058.

57.

Yamanaka T, Tosaki A, Miyazaki H, Kurosawa M, Koike M, Uchiyama Y, Maity SN, Misawa H, Takahashi R,
Shimogori T, Hattori N, Nukina N. (2016) Differential roles of NF-Y transcription factor in ER
chaperone expression and neuronal maintenance in the CNS. Sci Rep. 6:34575. doi:
10.1038/srep34575.

58.

Kino Y, Washizu C, Kurosawa M, Yamada M, Doi H, Takumi T, Adachi H, Katsuno M, Sobue G, Hicks GG,
Hattori N, Shimogori T, Nukina N. (2016) FUS/TLS acts as an aggregation-dependent modifier ofpolyglutamine disease model mice. Sci Rep. 6:35236. doi: 10.1038/srep35236.

59.

Okano H, Sasaki E, Yamamori T, Iriki A, Shimogori T, Yamaguchi Y, Kasai K, Miyawaki A. (2016) Brain/MINDS:A Japanese National Brain Project for Marmoset Neuroscience. Neuron 92:582-590. doi:
10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.018.

60.

Kawata M, Taniguchi Y, Mori D, Yano F, Ohba S, Chung UI, Shimogori T, Mills AA, Tanaka S, Saito T. (2017)
Different regulation of limb development by p63 transcript variants. PLoS One. 12:e0174122.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174122.

61.

Watson C, Shimogori T, Puelles L. (2017) Mouse Fgf8-Cre-LacZ lineage analysis defines the territory of thepostnatal mammalian isthmus. J Comp Neurol. 2017 May 16. doi: 10.1002/cne.24242.

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62.

Alchini R, Sato H, Matsumoto N, Shimogori T, Sugo N, Yamamoto N. (2017) Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling ofHistone Deacetylase 9 Controls Activity-Dependent Thalamocortical Axon Branching. Sci Rep.
20:6024. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06243-7.

63.

Shimogori T, Abe A, Go Y, Hashikawa T, Kishi N, Kikuchi SS, Kita Y, Niimi K, Nishibe H, Okuno M, Saga K,
Sakurai M, Sato M, Serizawa T, Suzuki S, Takahashi E, Tanaka M, Tatsumoto S, Toki M, U M, Wang
Y,

Windak KJ, Yamagishi H, Yamashita K, Yoda T, Yoshida AC, Yoshida C, Yoshimoto T, Okano H. inpress. Digital gene atlas of neonate common marmoset brain. Neurosci Res. doi:
10.1016/j.neures.2017.10.009.

64.

Peng J, Fabre PJ, Dolique T, Swikert SM, Kermasson L, Shimogori T, Charron F. (2018) Sonic Hedgehog Is a
Remotely Produced Cue that Controls Axon Guidance Trans-axonally at a Midline Choice Point.
Neuron. 97:326-340.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.028.

Book Chapters
1.

Shimogori T and Grove EA. (2006) Subcortical and Neocortical Guidance of Area-specific Thalamic
innervation: Development and Plasticity in sensory thalamus and cortex, Eds: Erzurumlu, R., Guido,W., Molnar, Z., Springer, Heidelberg. P68

2.

Shimogori T. (2006) Micro In Utero Electroporation for Efficient Gene Targeting in Mouse Embryos, In: Gene
Transfer, Eds: Friedmann T. and Rossi J., Cold Spring Harbor, Laboratory Press, p427

3.

Shimogori T and Ogawa M. (2008) Practical application of micro electroporation into developing mouse brain.
Springer. P153-167.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
1. Japanese Society of Developmental Biology, Sendai, Japan (2004)
2. Society of Evolution Studies, Kyoto, Japan (2007)
3. The Japanese Society of Child Neurology, Osaka, Japan (2007)
4. Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2008)
5. Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Research Seminar, Baltimore, USA (2008)
6. Biochemistry and molecular biology, Kobe, Japan (2008)
7. University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain (2009)
8. Invited speaker, Barrel XXII satellite meeting (2009. Oct)
9. Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2009)
10. Institute of neuroscience (ION), Shinghai, China (2009. Nov)
11. Pekin University, Beijing, China (2009. Nov)
12. The 8th Binneal Chinese Neuroscience meting, Guangzhou, China (2009. Nov)
13. Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2010. May)
14. Department of physiology, anatomy and genetics, Oxford (2010. June)
15. Department of biological science, Sheffield, UK (2010. June)

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16. Research department of cell and developmental biology, University of College London, UK (2010. June)
17. FAONS Congress-2010, Lucknow, India (2010, Nov)
18. SFN mini symposium (molecular pathways controlling development of thalamus and hypothalamus: from neuralspecification to circuit formation), DC, USA (2010 Nov)
19. Neurobiology Section, Biological Sciences Division, University of California, San Diego (2010 Nov)
20. Development and Plasticity of Thalamocortical Systems, Arolla, Switzerland (2011. Feb)
21. Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Research Seminar, Baltimore, USA (2011. Nov)
22. Neural development; Stem cell perspective, Japan (2012 Jan)
23. Research department of cell and developmental biology, University of College London, UK (2013 Jan)
24. Cortex club speaker, Oxford, UK (2013 Jan)
25. Salk institute for biological studies, USA (2013 Jan)
26. IBRO Lecture course, Hong Kong (2013 June)
27. ANS2013 (Australian Neuroscience meeting), Melbourne (2013 Jan)
28. Gordon Research Conference (Dendrites: molecules, structure and function), Les Diablerets, Switzerland (2013 May)
29. Geneva neuroscience center, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2013 May)
30. The Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven USA. (2013 Nov)
31. Japanese Conference for Laboratory Animal Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan (2014 May)
32. Gordon Research Conference (Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology), The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology, Hong Kong (2014 July)
33. INCF 2014, Leiden, Netherland (2014 Aug)
34. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland (2014 Aug)
35. University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2015 Mar)
36. EMBO workshop, Cortical development in health and disease, Weismann Institute, Israel (2015 Apr)
37. Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Sendai, Japan (2015 Aug)
38. National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi, Japan (2015 Sep)
39. National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan (2015 Oct)
40. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting symposium, Kobe, Japan (2015 Dec)
41. Stanford Neurosciences Institute seminar series, Invited speaker, CA, USA (2016 Jan)
42. Monash University, Invited speaker, Melbourne, Australia (2016 Jan)
43. 1st IBRO/APRC Chandigarh Neuroscience Symposium, Plenary speaker, Chandigarh, India (2016 Feb)
44. Doshisya University, Kyoto, Japan (2016 Feb)
45. Keio University, Brain Club, Tokyo, Japan (2016 May)
46. Gordon Research Conference (Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology), The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology, Hong Kong (2016 June)
47. US-Japan synapses meeting, Baltimore, USA (2016 June)
48. OIST Developmental Neurobiology course 2016, Okinawa, Japan (2016 July)
49. Osaka symposium 2016 “Circuit construction in the mammalian brain”, Osaka, Japan (2016 Aug)50. 28th Takatho symposium, Nagano, Japan (2016 Aug)
51. Skirball Institute of Biomolecular medicine, NYU, School of Medicine, NY, USA (2016 Sep)
52. Cold Spring Harbor, “Mammalian Brain Cell Diversity and Census”, NY, USA (2016 Sep)
53. Rockefeller University ““Coordinating Global Brain Projects”, NY, USA (2016 Sep)

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54. SfN, mini symposium (co-organizer), “Human brain development and maturation: animal brain mapping, humanbrain imaging, and computational simulation”, San Diego, USA (2016 Nov)
55. National Center for Biological Science, Bangalore, India (2016 Dec)
56. IBENS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France (2017 Mar)
57. Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada (2017 May)
58. Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2017 May)
59. Depts of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Duke university, North Carolina, USA (2017 May)
60. Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA (2017 June)
61. The 48th NIPS symposium, Okazaki, Japan (2017 Oct)
62. McGill University, Department of Physiology, Montreal, Canada (2017 Nov)
63. Indiana University, Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience Department of Biology, Indiana, USA (2017 Nov)

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