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Shin-ichi Higashijima is affiliated with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cell biology, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and ecology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics in zebrafish biomedical research applications, vestibular and auditory disorders, congenital heart defects research, neural dynamics and brain function, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as animal genetics and reproduction.

Frequent coauthors in the scientist's publications include Yukiko Kimura, Masashi Tanimoto, David Schoppik, Takumi Sugioka, and Kyla R. Hamling.

Shin-ichi Higashijima has published numerous papers in leading journals, with recurrent publication venues being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Nature Communications, Development, and Cell Reports.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish, 2022, Neuron
  • Functional Diversity of Glycinergic Commissural Inhibitory Neurons in Larval Zebrafish, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Central Vestibular Tuning Arises from Patterned Convergence of Otolith Afferents, 2020, Neuron
  • Biomechanics and neural circuits for vestibular-induced fine postural control in larval zebrafish, 2023, Nature Communications
  • A gene regulatory network combining Pax3/7, Sox10 and Mitf generates diverse pigment cell types in medaka and zebrafish, 2023, Development

Best Publications

  • Visualization of Cranial Motor Neurons in Live Transgenic Zebrafish Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein Under the Control of the Islet-1 Promoter/Enhancer

    Shin-ichi Higashijima;Yoshiki Hotta;Hitoshi Okamoto

  • High-frequency generation of transgenic zebrafish which reliably express GFP in whole muscles or the whole body by using promoters of zebrafish origin

    Shin-ichi Higashijima;Hitoshi Okamoto;Naoto Ueno;Yoshiki Hotta

  • The habenula is crucial for experience-dependent modification of fear responses in zebrafish

    Masakazu Agetsuma;Hidenori Aizawa;Tazu Aoki;Ryoko Nakayama

  • A topographic map of recruitment in spinal cord

    David L. McLean;Jingyi Fan;Shin Ichi Higashijima;Melina E. Hale

  • Efficient generation of knock-in transgenic zebrafish carrying reporter/driver genes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering

    Yukiko Kimura;Yu Hisano;Atsuo Kawahara;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • alx, a Zebrafish Homolog of Chx10, Marks Ipsilateral Descending Excitatory Interneurons That Participate in the Regulation of Spinal Locomotor Circuits

    Yukiko Kimura;Yasushi Okamura;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • Anatomy of zebrafish cerebellum and screen for mutations affecting its development.

    Young-Ki Bae;Shuichi Kani;Takashi Shimizu;Koji Tanabe

  • Imaging neuronal activity during zebrafish behavior with a genetically encoded calcium indicator.

    Shin Ichi Higashijima;Mark A. Masino;Gail Mandel;Joseph R. Fetcho

  • Dual Bar homeo box genes of Drosophila required in two photoreceptor cells, R1 and R6, and primary pigment cells for normal eye development.

    Shin-Ichi Higashijima;Tetsuya Kojima;Tatsuo Michiue;Satoshi Ishimaru

  • From the olfactory bulb to higher brain centers: Genetic visualization of secondary olfactory pathways in zebrafish

    Nobuhiko Miyasaka;Kozo Morimoto;Tatsuya Tsubokawa;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • Two FGF-receptor homologues of Drosophila: one is expressed in mesodermal primordium in early embryos

    E. Shishido;S.-I. Higashijima;Y. Emori;K. Saigo

  • Distribution of prospective glutamatergic, glycinergic, and GABAergic neurons in embryonic and larval zebrafish.

    Shin Ichi Higashijima;Shin Ichi Higashijima;Gail Mandel;Gail Mandel;Joseph R. Fetcho

  • The Habenulo-Raphe Serotonergic Circuit Encodes an Aversive Expectation Value Essential for Adaptive Active Avoidance of Danger

    Ryunosuke Amo;Ryunosuke Amo;Felipe Fredes;Masae Kinoshita;Ryo Aoki;Ryo Aoki

  • Illuminating cell-cycle progression in the developing zebrafish embryo

    Mayu Sugiyama;Asako Sakaue-Sawano;Tadahiro Iimura;Kiyoko Fukami

  • Transgenic tools to characterize neuronal properties of discrete populations of zebrafish neurons

    Chie Satou;Yukiko Kimura;Hiromi Hirata;Maximiliano L. Suster

  • Identification of Germline Stem Cells in the Ovary of the Teleost Medaka

    Shuhei Nakamura;Kayo Kobayashi;Toshiya Nishimura;Toshiya Nishimura;Shin-ichi Higashijima;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • Visualization of an endogenous retinoic acid gradient across embryonic development

    Satoshi Shimozono;Tadahiro Iimura;Tetsuya Kitaguchi;Shin Ichi Higashijima

  • A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish

    Amina Kinkhabwala;Michael Riley;Minoru Koyama;Joost Monen

  • Engrailed-1 expression marks a primitive class of inhibitory spinal interneuron.

    Shin Ichi Higashijima;Mark A. Masino;Gail Mandel;Joseph R. Fetcho

  • Genetic visualization with an improved GCaMP calcium indicator reveals spatiotemporal activation of the spinal motor neurons in zebrafish.

    Akira Muto;Masamichi Ohkura;Tomoya Kotani;Tomoya Kotani;Shin Ichi Higashijima

  • V2a and V2b neurons are generated by the final divisions of pair-producing progenitors in the zebrafish spinal cord

    Yukiko Kimura;Chie Satou;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • Hindbrain V2a Neurons in the Excitation of Spinal Locomotor Circuits during Zebrafish Swimming

    Yukiko Kimura;Chie Satou;Shunji Fujioka;Wataru Shoji

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. Fetcho
Joseph R. Fetcho Cornell University
Koichi Kawakami
Koichi Kawakami National Institute of Genetics
Rainer W. Friedrich
Rainer W. Friedrich Friedrich Miescher Institute
Kiyoshi Naruse
Kiyoshi Naruse National Institute for Basic Biology
Minoru Tanaka
Minoru Tanaka Nagoya University
William A. Harris
William A. Harris University of Cambridge
Shawn M. Burgess
Shawn M. Burgess National Institutes of Health
Toshio Ohshima
Toshio Ohshima Waseda University

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