CURRICULUM VITAE
Hokto Kazama, Ph.D.
Laboratory HeadLaboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Phone: +81-48-462-1111 (ext.7151)
Fax: +81-48-467-9684
Email: hokto.kazama [at] riken.jp

Appointments
2006/04-05
2006/05-2010/05
2010/06-2018/03
2011/04-present
2018/04-present

Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
Research Fellow in Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School
Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory
Perception, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Visiting associate professor, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School ofArts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory
Perception, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Education
2001 B.S.
2003 M.S.
2006 Ph.D.

Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo,Japan
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, JapanAwards
2003-2006
2006-2007
2008-2010
2009
2017

Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for
Young Scientists (DC1)
Research fellow of the Uehara Memorial Foundation
National Research Service Award (NIH, F32DC009538)
Keystone Symposia Education Fund Scholarship
Ando Momofuku Award

External Grants
2011-20132013-20142015-20172018-20192018-20202019-2020

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (23680044)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (25115732)
Grants-in-Aid for Foreign JSPS fellow (15F15384)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (18K19502)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (18H02532)
Grants-in-Aid for Foreign JSPS fellow (19F19718)

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Teaching and Community service
2003-20042009
2010-present
2011
2011-present
2014
2014
20152015-present2015
2016
2016
2016
2016
2017
2017

Teaching assistant, The University of Tokyo, Biophysics
Lecture on English presentation at the National Institute of Genetics
Lecture on introductory brain science at the University of Tokyo
Lecture on neural circuit at ASCONE
Lecture on learning and memory at RIKEN BSI
Lecture on brain science in the World Brain Week program
Lecture on globalization in MEXT super global high school program
Lecture at meeting for Society for young researchers in neuroscience
Lecture on biology at the University of Chiba
Lecture at RIKEN Brain Science Institute Summer School
Lecture at Hibiya High School
Lecture at International Brain Bee local competitionTerumo Foundation Web Material on the neurobiology of smell
Lecture at RIKEN corporate seminar
Lecture at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
Lecture at Tsukuba High SchoolPublications
Ando T, Sekine S, Inagaki S, Misaki K, Badel L, Moriya H, Sami MM, Chihara T, Kazama H,
Yonemura S, Hayashi S. (2019) Nanopore formation in the cuticle of the insect olfactory
sensillum. Current Biology 29, 1512-1520.
Fujisawa S and Kazama H. (2019). Circuits and neural dynamics underlying behavior.
Neuroscience Research 140, 1-2.
Mercier D, Tsuchimoto Y, Ohta K, Kazama H. (2018). Olfactory landmark-based communication ininteracting Drosophila. Current Biology 28, 2624-2631.
Takagi S, Cocanougher BT, Niki S, Miyamoto D, Kohsaka H, Kazama H, Fetter RD, Truman JW,
Zlatic M, Cardona A, Nose A (2017). Divergent connectivity of homologous command-likeneurons mediates segment-specific touch responses in Drosophila. Neuron 96, 1373-1387.
Shiozaki HM and Kazama H. (2017). Parallel encoding of recent visual experience and self-motion
during navigation in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience 20, 1395-1403.
Inada K, Tsuchimoto Y, Kazama H. (2017). Origins of cell-type-specific olfactory processing in theDrosophila mushroom body circuit. Neuron 95, 357-367.
Badel L, Ohta K, Tsuchimoto Y, Kazama H. (2016). Decoding of context-dependent olfactory
behavior in Drosophila. Neuron 91, 155-167.
Kazama, H. (2015). Systems neuroscience in Drosophila: Conceptual and technical advantages.
Neuroscience 296, 3-14.
Oizumi M, Satoh R, Kazama H, Okada M. (2012). Functional differences between global pre- andpostsynaptic inhibition in the Drosophila olfactory circuit. Frontiers in Computational
Neuroscience 6:14.

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Kazama H, Yaksi E, Wilson RI. (2011). Cell death triggers olfactory circuit plasticity via glial
signaling in Drosophila. The Journal of Neuroscience 31, 7619-7630.
Satoh R, Oizumi M, Kazama H, Okada M. (2010). Mechanisms of maximum information
preservation in the Drosophila antennal lobe. PLoS One 5 (5), e10644.
Kazama H and Wilson RI. (2009). Origins of correlated activity in an olfactory circuit.
Nature Neuroscience 12, 1136-1144.
Kazama H and Wilson RI. (2008). Homeostatic matching and nonlinear amplification at identified
central synapses. Neuron 58, 401-413.
Kazama H, Ichikawa A, Kohsaka H, Morimoto-Tanifuji T, Nose A. (2008). Innervation and activity
dependent dynamics of postsynaptic oxidative metabolism. Neuroscience 152, 40-49.
Kazama H, Nose A, Morimoto-Tanifuji T. (2007). Synaptic components necessary for retrogradesignaling triggered by calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II during synaptogenesis.
Neuroscience 145, 1007-1015.
Nakayama H, Kazama H, Nose A, Morimoto-Tanifuji T. (2006). Activity-dependent regulation ofsynaptic size in Drosophila neuromuscular junctions. The Journal of Neurobiology 66, 929-939.
Morimoto-Tanifuji T, Kazama H, Nose A. (2004). Developmental stage-dependent modulation ofsynapses by postsynaptic expression of activated calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase
II. Neuroscience 128, 797-806.
Kazama H, Morimoto-Tanifuji T, Nose A. (2003). Postsynaptic activation of calcium/calmodulindependent protein kinase II promotes coordinated pre- and postsynaptic maturation of
Drosophila neuromuscular junctions. Neuroscience 117, 615-625.

Invited Talks
2019201920192019201920182018201820182018
2018
2018
2018
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017

Annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Fukuoka (forthcoming)
Naito Conference on Integrated Sensory Sciences, Sapporo (forthcoming)
Annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society, Niigata (forthcoming)
The University of Tokyo Medical School, Tokyo
Annual meeting of the Japanese society of developmental biologists, Osaka
UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society, Kobe (organizer)
International Workshop on olfaction, OIST, Okinawa, (organizer)
MIT Colloquium, Cambridge, MA
New York University, NY
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Columbia University, NY
The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Tokyo
Tokyo Medical and Dental University Symposium, Tokyo
Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Consortium of Biological Sciences, Kobe
International Symposium on whole-brain/organ imaging, Saitama Univ, Saitama
International Symposium on Taste and Olfactory Perception, Kyushu Univ, Fukuoka
Research Meeting on Emotion, NIPS, Okazaki
International Workshop on Neuroscience, Nagoya University, Nagoya

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2017
2017
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008

Kao Corporation Research Institute, Tochigi
Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji
NICT-NSF Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, CiNet, Osaka
University of Washington, Seattle, WASalk Institute, La Jolla, CAInterdisciplinary Theoretical Science Colloquium, RIKEN, Wako
International symposium on olfaction and taste (ISOT), satellite, Tokyo
Annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society, Kobe (organizer)
Chiba University, Chiba
Meeting for Society for young researchers on neuroscience, Kanagawa
National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo
Mesoscopic neurocircuitry, Atami
Mechanisms of Brain and Mind Workshop, Rusutsu
Annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society, Nagoya
Comprehensive Brain Science Network Workshop on olfaction, Tokyo
Osaka University, OsakaToyama University, Toyama
Autumn School for Computational Neuroscience, Suwa
Annual meeting of the Zoolological Society of Japan, Asahikawa
Comprehensive Brain Science Network workshop, Kobe
Synapse meeting at National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki
International Symposium on Taste and Olfactory Perception, Fukuoka
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society, Kobe
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako
Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo

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