Department of Developmental Neuroscience -Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine-

The brain is the organ that creates our mind and thoughts.
Research in Osumi Lab is focusing on how the brain is developed, maintained, and become aged.

Our lab has elucidated molecular mechanisms of neural development and neurogenesis, and proposed their physiological significance in animal behavior and the relevance in mental disorders. From the point of biological changes in different time scales, we will target transgenerational epigenetics that may affect neural development and neurogenesis. We welcome all young researchers sparing his/her best effort to tackle unique research in the cutting-edge science.

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2025.4.25

2025.04.17-21 Jasper Gemeraad and Leon Giesselink participated in Redox week in Sendai 2025 held at Tohoku University.(2025.4.25)
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2025.4.25

2025.4.15-16 Senior Lecturer Takako Kikkawa and Assistant Professor Sharmin Nahar participated in the 30th TMIMS International Symposium held at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.(2025.4.25)
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2025.4.14

Sharmin Naher and Jasper Germeraad and Sara Ebrahimiazar and Haruka Endo received their degrees.(2025.3.25)
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2025.4.7

Hanae Tomaru, an second-year undergraduate student, received the Undergraduate Poster Award at APPW 2025, held at Makuhari Messe from March 17 to 19.
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2025.3.4

2025.2.19 We held a farewell party for Dr. Valter Tucci, Italian Institute of Technology, who stayed with us for about 3 months from last December.
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2025.2.25

Members of our lab participated in the 18th Retreat Graduate Student Research Presentation.
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2025.2.25

2025.2.8−9 The 第 19 回自閉症学研究会 (JCAR conference) was held in Akiu Onsen.
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2024.12.4

2024.12.4 A paper by a research team from Tohoku University, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, and National Yangming Jiaotong University was published in EMBO Journal and released as a press release.（2024.12.4）
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2024.11.12

2024.11.12 Assistant Professor Ochi was awarded a research grant from the Takeda Science Foundation 2024.（2024.11.12）
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2024.11.5

2024.11.5 Assistant Professor Ochi gave an oral presentation at the in-person event of "CyNav", Graint-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A).（2024.11.5）
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2024.10.16

2024.10.16 Assistant Professor Ochi's research has been featured in the Newsletter of the Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) "Hierarchical Bio-Navigation."（2024.10.16）
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2024.7.24

2024.7.24-27 Lab members participated in Neuro2024, held at the Fukuoka Convention Center（2024.7.24）
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2024.6.24

2024.6.24 Assistant Professor Shohei Ochi gave an oral presentation as a publicly offered research member at 2024 meeting of "CyNav", Graint-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A).（2024.6.24）
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2024.6.14

2024.6.14 We celebrated the publication of the Scienctific Data paper and Ochi-sensei receipted of the CINP Presentation Award, and we held a welcome party for Takabayashi-san, who has begun advanced training in the laboratory.（2024.6.14）
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2024.6.05

A paper by the Osumi research group including Assistant Professor Shohei Ochi and Shyu Manabe has been published in Scientific Data. （2024.06.05）
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2024.5.26

2024.5.26 Assistant Professor Shohei Ochi received the Excellent Presentation Award at CINP2024 35TH WORLD CONGRESS.
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2024.4.12

The 7th Spring Meeting on Neurogenesis" was held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Osumi Laboratory.
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2024.3.29

2024.3.29 Farewell party for lab members was held.
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2024.02.04

2024.2.04 International students Sara and Sander participated in the 17th Retreat Graduate Student Research Presentation held at the Seiryo Campus and Sara won the Poster Award.
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2024.01.26

2024.1.26 International students Laarni and Sharmin successfully completed the defense of their doctoral dissertations and welcomed Professor Tsai to celebrate.
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2023.12.07

2023.12.07 A paper by the Osumi research group including Kazusa Miyahara and Misako Tatehana was published in Scientific Reports and a press release was issued.
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2023.11.27

2023.11.27 SfN participation report session.
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2023.11.11

Members of the laboratory participated in the Society for Neurosciense 2023 on 11-15.11.2023.
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2023.10.19

2023.10.19 Imoni-Party was held.
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2023.08.01

August 1-4, 2023　Participated in the "46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society" held at the Sendai International Center.
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2023.03.24

Misako Tatehana and Ziguo LAN received their degrees.
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2023.02.26

Jasper Germeraad and Laarni Grace Corales received Presentation Award at the 16th Retreat Tohoku University Graduate Student Research Presentation.
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2023.02.13

New joint paper shows that phagocytosis of neuronal microstructures by glial cells supports memory
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2022.09.16

Our work appeared on a column of Wall Street Journal
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2022.09.08

A new collaborative paper on the role of Trp53 and Cdkn1a in germline genetic diversity has come out
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2022.09.08

A review article by Dr. Shohei Ochi, an assistant professor in Department of Developmental Neuroscience, has been published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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2022.09.01

A new collaborative paper on the role of the CHAMP1 Gene in neuronal development has come out
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2022.08.31

A paper on Autism and Other Risks of Father Aging by Lingling MAI as the first author has been published in iScience and released in press!
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2022.3.23

「The 5th Annual Spring Meeting on Neurogenesis」
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2021.12.03

Mai Lingling(D4) was awarded Shinyu Graduate Research Excellent Award 2021.
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2021.11.15

A collaborative research paper by Hinako Kirikae, B6 medical student, and Prof. Witter et. at NTNU has been published in Frontier in Neural Circuits.
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2021.09.15

Dr. Kikkawa was awarded the Prize of Japanese Association of Anatomists at the 67th Tohoku and Hokkaido Academic Meeting
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2021.08.31

Ziguo Lan (M1) was awarded Junior Investigator Poster Development Award at the 44th JNS meeting.
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2021.06.07

Call for registration
The 80th Fujihara Seminar
“Molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain systems generating individuality”
ONLINE EVENT(Zoom)
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2021.05.19

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2021.04.01

Welcome new students!!!
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2021.03.02

A collaborative research paper with the Department of Cardiology has been published.
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2021.02.05

A new collaborative paper on gender difference in neuropathology of autism has come out
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2021.01.12

Paternal age affects offspring via an epigenetic mechanism
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2020.12.23

Our paper has been published on Molecular Brain and press released.
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2020.11.26

Message from Prof. Osumi
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2020.10.15

MEMBER
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2020.05.28

Our paper published in PLOS ONE has been featured in news outlets.
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2020.05.06

Message from Prof. Osumi
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2020.04.23

MEMBER
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2020.04.20

Our paper with a graduate student, Misako Tatehana, has been published in PLOS ONE. Featured in university press release.

Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Department of Developmental Neuroscience

The brain is the organ that creates our mind and thoughts.
Research in Osumi Lab is focusing on how the brain is developed, maintained, and become aged.

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The brain is the organ that creates our mind and thoughts. Research in Osumi Lab is focusing on how the brain is developed, maintained, and become aged.

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The brain is the organ that creates our mind and thoughts.
Research in Osumi Lab is focusing on how the brain is developed, maintained, and become aged.