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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Joseph S. Takahashi is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a substantial number of publications in subfields including endocrine and autonomic systems, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, plant science, and molecular biology.

The study topics covered in their work span various aspects of circadian biology and related fields. These include circadian rhythm and melatonin, dietary effects on health, light effects on plants, genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms, sleep and wakefulness research, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Recent notable publications by Joseph S. Takahashi include the following:

  • Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird, 2021, Nature
  • Circadian alignment of early onset caloric restriction promotes longevity in male C57BL/6J mice, 2022, Science
  • Importance of circadian timing for aging and longevity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The microbiota coordinates diurnal rhythms in innate immunity with the circadian clock, 2021, Cell
  • The importance of sleep regularity: a consensus statement of the National Sleep Foundation sleep timing and variability panel, 2023, Sleep Health

Frequent co-authors in their recent work include:

  • Filipa Rijo-Ferreira
  • Carla B. Green
  • Victoria A. Acosta-Rodríguez
  • Mariko Izumo
  • Pin Xu

The venues where Joseph S. Takahashi has most frequently published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Sleep Health

Joseph S. Takahashi has received multiple awards and distinctions, including:

  • Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2019
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2014
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003
  • W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2001
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2001
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1983

Best Publications

  • Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Circadian Clock Mutant Mice

    Fred W. Turek;Corinne Joshu;Corinne Joshu;Akira Kohsaka;Akira Kohsaka;Emily Lin;Emily Lin

  • Coordinated transcription of key pathways in the mouse by the circadian clock.

    Satchidananda Panda;Marina P. Antoch;Brooke H. Miller;Andrew I. Su;Andrew I. Su

  • PERIOD2::LUCIFERASE real-time reporting of circadian dynamics reveals persistent circadian oscillations in mouse peripheral tissues

    Seung Hee Yoo;Shin Yamazaki;Shin Yamazaki;Phillip L. Lowrey;Kazuhiro Shimomura

  • Transcriptional architecture of the mammalian circadian clock

    Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Role of the CLOCK Protein in the Mammalian Circadian Mechanism

    Nicholas Gekakis;David Staknis;David Staknis;David Staknis;Hubert B. Nguyen;Hubert B. Nguyen;Hubert B. Nguyen;Fred C. Davis;Fred C. Davis;Fred C. Davis

  • Central and Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Mammals

    Jennifer A. Mohawk;Carla B. Green;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Circadian Integration of Metabolism and Energetics

    Joseph Bass;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Mutagenesis and Mapping of a Mouse Gene, Clock, Essential for Circadian Behavior

    Martha Hotz Vitaterna;David P. King;Anne-Marie Chang;Jon M. Kornhauser

  • Molecular components of the mammalian circadian clock

    Caroline H. Ko;Caroline H. Ko;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Mop3 Is an Essential Component of the Master Circadian Pacemaker in Mammals

    Maureen K. Bunger;Lisa D. Wilsbacher;Susan M. Moran;Cynthia Clendenin

  • The Genetics of Mammalian Circadian Order and Disorder: Implications for Physiology and Disease

    Joseph S. Takahashi;Hee Kyung Hong;Caroline H. Ko;Erin L. McDearmon

  • Positional cloning of the mouse circadian clock gene.

    David P King;Yaliang Zhao;Ashvin M Sangoram;Lisa D Wilsbacher

  • Disruption of the clock components CLOCK and BMAL1 leads to hypoinsulinaemia and diabetes

    Biliana Marcheva;Kathryn Moynihan Ramsey;Ethan D. Buhr;Yumiko Kobayashi

  • Transcriptional Architecture and Chromatin Landscape of the Core Circadian Clock in Mammals

    Nobuya Koike;Seung Hee Yoo;Hung Chung Huang;Vivek Kumar

  • Molecular architecture of the mammalian circadian clock.

    Carrie L. Partch;Carrie L. Partch;Carla B. Green;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Cell Autonomy and Network Properties

    David K. Welsh;Joseph S. Takahashi;Steve A. Kay

  • Circadian Clock Feedback Cycle Through NAMPT-Mediated NAD+ Biosynthesis

    Kathryn Moynihan Ramsey;Jun Yoshino;Cynthia S. Brace;Dana Abrassart

  • Mammalian circadian biology: elucidating genome-wide levels of temporal organization.

    Phillip L. Lowrey;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • The Meter of Metabolism

    Carla B. Green;Joseph S. Takahashi;Joseph S. Takahashi;Joseph Bass

  • Positional Syntenic Cloning and Functional Characterization of the Mammalian Circadian Mutation tau

    Phillip L. Lowrey;Kazuhiro Shimomura;Marina P. Antoch;Shin Yamazaki

  • Molecular components of the Mammalian circadian clock

    Ethan D Buhr;Joseph S Takahashi

  • Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology

    Joseph S. Takahashi;Fred W. Turek;Robert Y. Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha Hotz Vitaterna
Martha Hotz Vitaterna Northwestern University
Fred W. Turek
Fred W. Turek Northwestern University
Lawrence H. Pinto
Lawrence H. Pinto Northwestern University
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Peking University
Steve A. Kay
Steve A. Kay University of Southern California
Michael Menaker
Michael Menaker University of Virginia
John B. Hogenesch
John B. Hogenesch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Robert F. Mullins
Robert F. Mullins University of Iowa
Morris Schambelan
Morris Schambelan University of California, San Francisco
Kirsten L. Johansen
Kirsten L. Johansen University of Minnesota

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