Yasunori Hayashi

Yasunori Hayashi (林 康紀, Hayashi Yasunori, born July 28, 1965) is a Japanese neuroscientist who was born in Aichi and grew up in Tokyo. He is leading his research group in RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.^[1]

Education and research history

• 1984–1990 MD, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
• 1990–1994 PhD, Institute for Immunology and Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
• 1994–1996 Postdoctral Fellow, Department of Neurophysiology, Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
• 1996–2000 Postdoctral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 2000–2009 Assistant Professor (joint), RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2000–2004 Senior Scientist (joint), Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
• 2004–2009 Unit Leader (joint), Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
• 2009 – current Team Leader, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN

Past accomplishments

• Regulation of adrenal tyrosine hydroxylase under hypoxic condition
• Cloning and functional analysis of prostanoid receptor
• Pharmacological analyses of metabotropic glutamate receptor
• Activity dependent trafficking of AMPA type glutamate receptor as a mechanism of hippocampal LTP
• Structural plasticity of dendritic spine and its molecular mechanisms
• Molecular cloning and analysis of motoneuron specific NMDA receptor subtype NR3B
• Retrograde regulation of synaptic release probability by cell adhesion molecules
• Structural elucidation of high-order structure of postsynaptic density

Awards and honors

• 1998 Young Investigator Award from Japanese Pharmacological Society
• 2008 JSPS Prize for Young Investigators^[2]
• 2008 Japan Academy Medal^[3]

References

External links

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
• RIKEN
• RIKEN Brain Science Institute
• Laboratory Webpage