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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Takaki Komiyama is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad discipline of Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields include Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biophysics.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Takaki Komiyama has contributed to various scholarly articles, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Characterizing Cortex-Wide Dynamics with Wide-Field Calcium Imaging" (2021), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Learning binds new inputs into functional synaptic clusters via spinogenesis" (2022), published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "Global and subtype-specific modulation of cortical inhibitory neurons regulated by acetylcholine during motor learning" (2022), published in Neuron
  • "Multimodal neural recordings with Neuro-FITM uncover diverse patterns of cortical-hippocampal interactions" (2021), published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "AlphaTracker: a multi-animal tracking and behavioral analysis tool" (2023), published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The scientist frequently publishes in well-known venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience, Science Advances, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Collaborations form an important part of their research, with frequent co-authors including Chi Ren, Ryoma Hattori, Nathan G. Hedrick, Xin Liu, and Duygu Kuzum.

Takaki Komiyama has been recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Emergence of reproducible spatiotemporal activity during motor learning

    Andrew J. Peters;Simon X. Chen;Takaki Komiyama

  • Learning-related fine-scale specificity imaged in motor cortex circuits of behaving mice.

    Takaki Komiyama;Takashi R. Sato;Daniel H. Oconnor;Ying Xin Zhang;Ying Xin Zhang

  • Representation of the glomerular olfactory map in the Drosophila brain

    Elizabeth C Marin;Gregory S.X.E Jefferis;Takaki Komiyama;Haitao Zhu

  • Procedures for behavioral experiments in head-fixed mice.

    Zengcai V. Guo;S. Andrew Hires;Nuo Li;Daniel H. O'Connor

  • Subtype-specific plasticity of inhibitory circuits in motor cortex during motor learning

    Simon X Chen;An Na Kim;Andrew J Peters;Takaki Komiyama

  • Vibrissa-Based Object Localization in Head-Fixed Mice

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Nathan G. Clack;Daniel Huber;Takaki Komiyama

  • Learning enhances the relative impact of top-down processing in the visual cortex.

    Hiroshi Makino;Takaki Komiyama

  • Transformation of Cortex-wide Emergent Properties during Motor Learning

    Hiroshi Makino;Hiroshi Makino;Chi Ren;Haixin Liu;An Na Kim

  • Dynamic Sensory Representations in the Olfactory Bulb: Modulation by Wakefulness and Experience

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Monica W. Chu;Jeffry S. Isaacson;Takaki Komiyama

  • Circuit Mechanisms of Sensorimotor Learning

    Hiroshi Makino;Eun Jung Hwang;Nathan G. Hedrick;Takaki Komiyama

  • Graded expression of semaphorin-1a cell-autonomously directs dendritic targeting of olfactory projection neurons.

    Takaki Komiyama;Lora B. Sweeney;Oren Schuldiner;K. Christopher Garcia

  • Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Linearly Control Olfactory Bulb Output

    Hiroyuki K. Kato;Shea N. Gillet;Andrew J. Peters;Jeffry S. Isaacson

  • From Lineage to Wiring Specificity: POU Domain Transcription Factors Control Precise Connections of Drosophila Olfactory Projection Neurons

    Takaki Komiyama;Wayne A. Johnson;Liqun Luo;Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis

  • History-based action selection bias in posterior parietal cortex

    Eun Jung Hwang;Jeffrey E Dahlen;Madan Mukundan;Takaki Komiyama

  • Temporal target restriction of olfactory receptor neurons by Semaphorin-1a/PlexinA-mediated axon-axon interactions.

    Lora B. Sweeney;Africa Couto;Ya-Hui Chou;Daniela Berdnik

  • Reorganization of corticospinal output during motor learning

    Andrew J Peters;Jun Lee;Nathan G Hedrick;Keelin O'Neil

  • Learning in the Rodent Motor Cortex.

    Andrew J Peters;Andrew J Peters;Haixin Liu;Takaki Komiyama

  • Area-Specificity and Plasticity of History-Dependent Value Coding During Learning.

    Ryoma Hattori;Bethanny Danskin;Zeljana Babic;Nicole Mlynaryk

  • Functions and dysfunctions of neocortical inhibitory neuron subtypes.

    Ryoma Hattori;Kishore V Kuchibhotla;Robert C Froemke;Robert C Froemke;Takaki Komiyama

  • Development of wiring specificity in the olfactory system.

    Takaki Komiyama;Liqun Luo

  • Balancing the Robustness and Efficiency of Odor Representations during Learning

    Monica W. Chu;Wankun L. Li;Takaki Komiyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Liqun Luo
Liqun Luo Stanford University
Duygu Kuzum
Duygu Kuzum University of California, San Diego
Daniel H. O'Connor
Daniel H. O'Connor Johns Hopkins University
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Jeffry S. Isaacson
Jeffry S. Isaacson University of California, San Diego
Itaru Imayoshi
Itaru Imayoshi Kyoto University
Christopher Potter
Christopher Potter University of Cambridge
Alex L. Kolodkin
Alex L. Kolodkin Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert C. Froemke
Robert C. Froemke New York University

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