Professor
Kenji Mizuseki joined Osaka City University (current: Osaka Metropolitan University) in 2015 to study the mechanisms of information processing in the hippocampus and related structures. Previously, Mizuseki served as a post-doctoral fellow at Kyoto University and as a staff scientist at RIKEN, where he studied the mechanisms of neural development using mouse embryonic stem cells. As a post-doctoral fellow and an assistant research professor at Rutgers University and as an assistant research professor at New York University, Mizuseki studied the mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex using large-scale recordings in rats in Professor György Buzsáki’s laboratory. As a senior scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Mizuseki studied mechanisms of information processing in the visual system using large-scale electrophysiological recordings. Mizuseki’s current interest lies in quantitatively characterizing and mechanistically explaining the phenomenon of information processing in terms of the dynamics of neuronal circuits in both awake and sleeping animals. Mizuseki received an MD and a PhD at Kyoto University in Japan, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of early neural development in the frog.
Research Experience
- Professor, April 2022 – present
Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan - Professor, April 2015 – March 2022
Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University (current: Osaka Metropolitan University), Osaka, Japan - Senior Scientist, September 2012 – March 2015
Allen Institute for Brain Science, WA, U.S.A - Research Assistant Professor, March 2012 – August 2012
Neuroscience Institute, New York University, NY, U.S.A.
Advisor: Prof. György Buzsáki - Research Assistant Professor, March 2009 – March 2012
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, NJ, U.S.A.
Advisor: Prof. György Buzsáki - Post-doctoral Fellow, April 2004 – March 2009
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, NJ, U.S.A.
Advisor: Prof. György Buzsáki - Research Scientist, March 2002 – March 2004
Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
Advisor: Dr. Yoshiki Sasai, Group Leader - Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2000 – February 2002
Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Advisor: Prof. Yoshiki Sasai
Education
- Ph.D. in Medicine, March 2000
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Advisors: Prof. Shigetada Nakanishi and Associate Prof. Yoshiki Sasai - M.D. , March 1996
Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan