Keisuke Yonehara

We are happy to announce the recruitment of our new group leader, @fionamuellner.bsky.social. Coming from the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Fiona will investigate how neural circuits at the brain’s first central processing stage—the thalamus—shape the way we see.
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Denmark’s new centre for Parkinson's research PACE at Aarhus University, hires 2 group leaders in cellular physiology and in vivo modelling of Parkinson’s Disease pathophysiology.https://dandrite.au.dk/display/artikel/new-group-leader-positions-at-denmarks-new-centre-for-parkinsons-research

WOW! What a great application of this powerful new optical tool. Can't wait to try it. Congratulations!

GABA imaging classifies amacrine cell types in mouse retina! Aki and
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are amazing! future goals include Gly imaging, 2-color Glu/GABA, more complete scRNA-seq/MERFISH mapped onto functional classes.

Super-fun collaboration! @janeliagenie.bsky.social

This work was mainly supported by @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @dandrite.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu and the National Institute of Genetics in Japan.

Functionally distinct GABAergic amacrine cell types regulate spatiotemporal encoding in the mouse retina - Nature Neuroscience GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Using two-photon GABA imaging, Matsumoto et al. reveal over 40 GABA neuron types in the mouse retina, each uniquely filte...

Our two-photon GABA imaging from mouse retina has been published! Akihiro Matsumoto in my lab spearheaded this project. I want to thank @loogerl.bsky.social for molecular clustering and @janeliagenie.bsky.social for the fantastic iGABASnFR2 sensor!
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New lab photo at NIG! Now we have 20 members, including 7 PhD students. We are focused on either 1)retina, 2)central areas/behavior, or 3) gene therapy.

Looking forward to seeing you vey soon!

I closed my lab at DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark. It's been a fantastic 10 years. Now, I am 100% located at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan. The photo is from our last lab dinner yesterday.

Our lab is looking for a postdoc interested in the development, plasticity, and control of cortical circuits (bhariokelab.com).

Please send CV and some research ideas of interest to you. We're flexible & open to new ideas in the lab's general vein!

Please repost! More details at shorturl.at/wLvZw.

Motion detection: Specific thalamocortical connections revealed Inferring the direction of image motion is an important component of visual processing. A study with in vivo dual electrophysiological recording now reveals that the sensitivity of visual cortical neurons to the direction of motion is established by specific neural connections from the visual thalamus.

Our dispatch article on Sue et al. has been published in Curr Biol ”Motion detection: Specific thalamocortical connections revealed”
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Flyer for a visual neuroscience course with colorful images of scientific data and model species.

I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

Horace Barlow, by all accounts, was thinking about 30 years ahead of his time. Here is a transcript of the opening keynote I gave at a symposium honoring Horace's scientific legacy: markusmeister.com/2024/12/14/h....

Diverse GABA signaling in the inner retina enables spatiotemporal coding bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Fantastic new study from Yonehara lab using a new GABA sniffer that works in retina. So much exciting stuff in this paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...