Ngeun-san newly joined our lab.

Our scientific paper "Modulation of somatosensory signal transmission in the primate cuneate nucleus during voluntary hand movement" was published in Cell Reports.

Lab members joined Neuroscience 2023 held in Washington D.C.

Our scientific paper "Presynaptic gating of monkey proprioceptive signals for proper motor action" was published in Nature Communications.

Enrique Contreras newly joined our lab.

The 17th Motor Control Meeting was held and 207 researchers got together.

Some lab member joined the 46th Annual meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society held in Sendai.

Miyazaki-san was awarded the best presentation award (basic research section) at the 17th Congress of the Movement Disorder Society of Japan and gave an oral presentation!

Dr. Seki and some lab members joined Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond2023 at St Andrews university, and presented research results.

Miyazaki-san received the best Poster award of 64th Annual meeting of The Japanese society of Neurology. The title is ”Chronic sleep fragmentation accelerates prodromal disease course in Parkinson’s disease model mice”.

We invited our collaborative research partner, Prof. Francisco to Annual meeting of The physiological society of Japan and conducted a symposium ”Hyperadaptability for overcoming body-brain dysfunction”.

Our scientific paper "Time course of recovery of different motor functions following a reproducible cortical infarction in non-human primates”, by Akito Kosugi, Yosuke Saga, Moeko Kudo, Masashi Koizumi, Tatsuya Umeda and Kazuhiko Seki" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neurology-Stroke.

Lab members joined Neuroscience 2022 and presented their research findings in San Diego.

Maeda-san newly joined our lab.

Our scientific paper "Muscle synergy analysis yields an efficient and physiologically relevant way of assessing stroke" was published in Brain Communications.

Kosugi-san presented research results at Neural Control of Movement meeting 2022 in Dublin.

Egawa-san newly joined our lab.

Yoshida-san and Sugai-san newly joined our lab.

We got a cover page！！

Just published a paper “Musculoskeletal modeling and inverse dynamic analysis of precision grip in the Japanese macaque” . This is the first paper from our long-term corroboration with Dr. Ogihara@Tokyo Univ. More will come!　

Just published the paper about the comparison of DRG cell size between monkeys and rats.“Distribution of Large and Small Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons in Common Marmosets”

The 15th Japanese Society for Motor Control Meeting was held entirely online. A total of 190 researchers participated in the meeting, and it served as a good opportunity to share research findings, exchange opinions and information.

Our collaborative research in computational Neuroscience(CRCNS)project has been started.

A scientific paper ”Specific gene expression in unmyelinated dorsal root ganglion neurons in nonhuman primates by intra-nerve injection of adeno-associated virus 6 vector” was published in Molecular Therapy : Methods and Clinical Development.

Seki-san organized together with Naito-san a symposium "Hyper-adaptation in the brain" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in Kobe.

A new member, Ota-san has joined our department.

Oya-san ends his assignment at the end of April and starts working in Canada!

A review article ”Approaches to Revealing the Neural Basis of Muscle Synergies: A Review and A Critique” was published in Journal of Neurophysiology.

A scientific paper ”Motility Profile of Captive-Bred Marmosets Revealed by a Long-Term In-Cage Monitoring System” was published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.

Minakawa-san, Kikuta-san, Bonkobara-san, Miyazaki-san joined our department.

We've redesigned our website.

Director Seki appeared on TV, NHK BS premium "Humanience"

Nakamura-san joined our department.

Miyamoto-san(secretary)joined our department.

A scientific paper”Forelimb force direction and magnitude independently controlled by spinal modules in the macaque."was published in PNAS.

A scientific paper "Generation of common marmoset model lines of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 "has been accepted in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

A scientific paper ”Characterization of Brain-targeted Drug Delivery Enhanced by a Combination of Lipid-based Microbubbles and Non-focused Ultrasound” was published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Sasaki-san leaves her job at the end of June and starts working at a new location. She made contributions to the Department for many years !

Umeda-san becomes an Associate Professor in Graduate school of Medicine, Kyoto University. Congratulations !!

Our lab is looking for two technical staffs.

Our lab is seeking two postdoctoral fellows. Please see our "Job Opportunity page".

A scientific paper "Distinct sensorimotor feedback loops for dynamic and static controlof primate precision grip" has been accepted for publication in Communications Biology.

Koizumi-san received a technical encouragement award of the Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory Primates.

Director Seki presented research results at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, USA

We celebrated our 10th anniversary, Director Seki started up a laboratory in 2009.

The13th meeting of Society for Motor Control was held. Kosugi-san and Uchida-san got "Young researchers encouragement awards".

A scientific paper ”Optogenetic recruitment of spinal reflex pathways from large-diameter primary afferents in non-transgenic rats transduced with AAV9/Channelrhodopsin 2" was published in Journal of Physiology.

Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at the NEURO 2019 Meeting in Niigata

World Brain Awareness Week event was held at NCNP.

A scientific paper "The somatosensory cortex receives information about motor output” was published in Science Advances.

Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at the 29th NCM Annual Meeting in Toyama

Prior to the 29th NCM Meeting, we organized "Tokyo Hand Meeting".

A scientific paper ”Decoding of muscle activity from the sensorimotor cortex in freely behaving monkeys" was published in Neuroimage.

Akito Kosugi-san (researcher)became a member of our lab.

Director Seki gave a talk for the Adler Foundation Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease at the Salk Institute.

Director Seki gave a lecture at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at EmboSS 2018 in Osaka.

Director Seki and Kubota-san presented research results at the SfN's annual meeting in San Diego, US.

Saeka Tomatsu-san becomes an Associate Professor in National Institute for Physiological Sciences. Congratulations !!

The 12th Annual Meeting of the Motor Control Society was held at Sophia University.

Director Seki and Koizumi-san joined in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in Kobe.

Director Seki gave an invited talk at NCM annual meeting 2018 in Santa Fe.

Kumiko Oida-san (veterinarian) joined our department.

Director Seki gave a speech at High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Mathematical Modeling and Clinical Applications meeting (Toronto)

Tomohiko Takei-san won a prize for the best scientific paper presented at the NCNP research workshop.

Kayo Yoshida-san joined our department.

A research group has made a stimulating discussion about sensory gating in rodent and primate with Dr. Shubo Chakrabarti.

We are currently recruiting technical staffs as well as assistant administrative staffs.

Tomatsu-san presented research results at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington,DC.

Congratulations to Tomohiko Takei-san on becoming a Hakubi center researcher at Kyoto University.

UCL Prof. Shin-Ichi Ohnuma and Dr. Ed.Wild gave talks at NCNP.

A scientific paper "Neural basis for hand muscle synergies in the primate spinal cord" has been published in PNAS.

The 30th System Seminar was held at NCNP on 24th of July.

Amit Yaron-san (researcher) joined us.

The 5th Embodied-brain systems science meeting was held at NCNP.

Director Seki was interviewed on a hand spinner and that will be broadcasted by NHK Nagoya on 17 June at 7:30 a.m.

Director Seki presented research results at NCM(Neural Control of Movement)2017 in Dublin.

A scientific paper on transgenic marmoset with polyglutamine disease has been published in eNeuro.

The 4th Embodied-brain systems science meeting was held in Kirishima.

The 29th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP

Joachim Confais and Geehee Kim's paper has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Director Seki gave a special lecture at the 3rd CU-NIPS Symposium in Thailand.

Yosuke Saga-san (researcher) joined us.

The 28th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP

Saeka Tomatsu's paper has been published at Journal of Neurophysiology.

Director Seki presented research results at the 36th annual meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society in Hobart

Lab members presented research results at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego

The 27th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP

Director Seki gave a speech at IROS 2016(Korea).

Hiroshi Yamada (Now at Tsukuba Univ)'s papar as to the method to identify area 3a of nonhuman primate using local field potentials has been published at Plos One.

Lab members presented research results at the 10th Japanese Society for Motor Control.

Director Seki gave a speech at the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Lab members presented research results at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society.

Nobuko Ohtani-san joined us.

Akiyo KAWANOBE-san joined us.