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Our lab studies connectivity and functions of neural circuits in normal and injured brain/spinal cord.

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2025.06.29 New	Shoji won the Yujin Memorial Award!
2025.06.19 New	Taka introduced the studies of BDNF and exercize in Tarzan.
2025.06.09 New	A review article (in Japanese): Approaches for inducing neural plasticity via targeting inhibitory circuits after stroke. Inoue T, Ueno M. Med Sci Dig 51(7): 74-76, 2025
2025.06.06 New	Hideki's paper in Neurobiol Dis: TDP-43 mutants with different aggregation properties exhibit distinct toxicity, axonal transport, and secretion for disease progression in a mouse ALS/FTLD model. Mori H, Sato T, Tsuboguchi S, Takahashi M, Nakamura Y, Hoshina K, Kato T, Fujii M, Onodera O, Ueno M. Neurobiol Dis. 212: 106988, 2025
2025.04.02 New	Rie has joined our lab!
2025.03.21 New	Taka's review: The diversity and plasticity of descending motor pathways rewired after stroke and trauma in rodents. Inoue T, Ueno M. Front Neural Circuits 19: 1566562, 2025
2025.03.19 New	Yoshino won the Undergraduate Poster Award at the APPW2025!
2025.03.15 New	Presentations in several meetings in March.
2025.03.12 New	Poster presentation at the Spinal cord formation, function, and beyond @ OIST
2025.02.05 New	The 14th NIPS-BRI-EHUB Joint Symposium.
2025.01.22 New	Toki's preprint in bioRxiv: Scg2 drives reorganization of the corticospinal circuit with spinal premotor interneurons to recover motor function after stroke. Sato T, Nakamura Y, Hoshina K, Inoue KI, Takada M, Yano M, Matsuzawa H, Ueno M. bioRxiv 2025
2025.01.11 New	Yoshino won the Best Student Presentation Award at the 11th Niigata-Juntendo University Joint Seminar!
2024.12.17 New	We joined the 2nd Brain Repair Meeting (@Tokyo).
2024.11.27 New	Invited talk at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (@ Fukuoka).
2024.11.22 New	Shoji's paper in JCI Insight: CRISPR/CasRx suppresses KRAS-induced brain arteriovenous malformation developed in postnatal brain endothelial cells in mice. Saito S, Nakamura Y, Miyashita S, Sato T, Hoshina K, Okada M, Hasegawa H, Oishi M, Fujii Y, Körbelin J, Kubota Y, Tainaka K, Natsumeda M, Ueno M. JCI Insight 9: e179729, 2024
2024.11.13 New	We hold a seminar at BRI.
2024.11.11 New	Reina has joined our lab!
2024.10.21 New	A review article (in Japanese): Rehabilitation to restore neural repair capacity in the aged brain. Tanaka T, Ueno M. Med Sci Dig 50(12): 602-604, 2024
2024.10.12 New	Invited talk at the 29th meeting of Japanese Society of Physical Therapy (@ Hachioji).
2024.10.02 New	A review article (in Japanese): Elucidating the neural network of cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons. Nakamura Y, Ueno M. Seitai No Kagaku 75(5): 406-7, 2024
2024.09.19 New	Invited talk at the QSLSL/IUSNA symposium.
2024.09.09 New	Yuki has joined our lab!
2024.09.06 New	Shintaro's paper was awarded the excellent papers in our university!
2024.08.17 New	Yoshino presneted a poster at the 14th Summer Retreat in East Japan Basic Medical Training Program Consortium.
2024.07.25 New	Wenbo (Harbin Med Univ) is joining our lab in the Summer Medical Exchange Program.
2024.07.16 New	BRI is recruiting associate professor position (tenure track).
2024.07.13 New	Presentation at the 64th Niigata biochemistry meeting @ Niigata
2024.06.07 New	Invited talk at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP).
2024.05.22 New	A review article (in Japanese): Rewiring of the corticospinal circuit and the molecular mechanism after stroke. Sato T, Ueno M. Med Sci Dig 50(6): 48-50, 2024
2024.05.10 New	We hold a seminar at BRI.
2024.05.02 New	Moeka has joined our lab!
2024.05.01 New	A review article (in Japanese): Protein spreading in ALS: disease progression by TDP-43 in the motor circuits. Tsuboguchi S, Onodera O, Ueno M. Farumashia 60(5): 393-397, 2024 (in Japanese)
2024.04.15 New	Selected as the best paper in 2023 in J Phys Ther Fund.
2024.03.15 New	Invited talks in several meetings in March.
2024.03.06 New	Poster presentation at Sensorimotor circuits for limb control @ OIST
2024.01.31 New	The 13th NIPS-EHUB-BRI joint symposium is held @ BRI.
2024.01.19 New	Invited lecture at the Univ Tokyo.
2023.12.01 New	We will join several meetings in this winter.
2023.11.15 New	Misaki has joined our lab!
2023.11.11 New	Invited talks and poster presentations in several meetings.
2023.09.15 New	A review article (in Japanese): Autonomic dysfunction and neural circuit rewiring in spinal cord injury. Ueno M. The Autonom Nerv Sys 60(3): 110-114, 2023 (in Japanese)
2023.09.04 New	Sou has joined our lab!
2023.08.31 New	Presentation at the "iPlasticity" summer meeting.
2023.08.09 New	Shintaro's paper in Acta Neuropathologica: TDP-43 differentially propagates to induce antero- and retrograde degeneration in the corticospinal circuits in mouse focal ALS models. Tsuboguchi S, Nakamura Y, Ishihara T, Kato T, Sato T, Koyama A, Mori H, Koike Y, Onodera O, Ueno M. Acta Neuropathol 2023, in press
2023.07.25 New	We present posters in the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Toki, Yuka, Shintaro, Shoji, and Kohei @ Sendai).
2023.07.22 New	Presentation at the 63th Niigata biochemistry meeting (@ Niigata).
2023.07.20 New	A new paper in collaboration: Voluntary running restores age-related loss of neural repair abilities and circadian rhythms after brain injury. Tanaka T, Ura H, Maeda T, Yanagita N, Mitsugi K, Koki H, Ueno M. J Phys Ther Fund. 2023 in press (in Japanese)
2023.07.20 New	Inoue T. The exercise to support brain health. Noeken column (in Japanese)
2023.07.19 New	Masamichi has joined our lab!
2023.07.14 New	Talk at the 3rd meeting of homeodynamics (@ Kyoto).
2023.04.24 New	Sicong has joined our lab!
2023.04.13 New	Talk at the Partnership Symposium between DANDRITE, Aarhus University and BRI
2023.04.03 New	Takanobu has joined our lab!
2023.03.31 New	A review article (in Japanese): Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons: spinal sensors of cerebrospinal fluid. Nakamura Y, Ueno M. The Cell 55(5): 32-6, 2023
2023.03.25 New	Our work was introduced in eLife Insight.
2023.03.25 New	A review article (in Japanese): Rewiring of corticospinal tract after central nervous system injuries. Inoue T, Ueno M. Jpn J Neuropsychol 39(1): 30-9, 2023
2023.03.24 New	Seminar for high-school students in Niigata.
2023.02.21 New	Yuka's paper in eLife: Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neuron tracing reveals structural and functional connectivity for locomotion in the mouse spinal cord. Nakamura Y, Kurabe M, Matsumoto M, Sato T, Miyashita S, Hoshina K, Kamiya Y, Tainaka K, Matsuzawa H, Ohno N, Ueno M. eLife 12: e83108, 2023
2023.02.09 New	Taka's paper. Temporal dynamics of brain BDNF expression following a single bout of exercise: A bioluminescence imaging study. Inoue T, Ikegami R, Takamatsu Y, Fukuchi M, Haga S, Ozaki M, Maejima H. Neurosci Lett 799: 137120, 2023
2023.02.03 New	Presentation at the 12th NIPS-BRI-EHUB Joint Symposium
2023.01.17 New	Satoshi's interview in BRI website.
2023.01.11 New	Poster presentation at the IRCN-iPlasticity International Symposium (@ Tokyo).
2023.01.06 New	Invited lecture at the Univ Tokyo.
2022.12.05 New	Kohei's interview in BRI website.
2022.11.18 New	Invited talk at iPlasticity online meeting.
2022.11.04 New	A new paper in collaboration: Nakata S, Murai J, Okada M, Takahashi H, Findlay TH, Malebranche K, Parthasarathy A, Miyashita S, Gabdulkhaev R, Benkimoun I, Druillennec S, Chabi S, Hawkins E, Miyahara H, Tateishi K, Yamashita S, Yamada S, Saito T, On J, Jun Watanabe J, Tsukamoto Y, Yoshimura J, Oishi M, Nakano T, Imamura M, Imai C, Yamamoto T, Takeshima H, Sasaki AT, Rodriguez FJ, Nobusawa S, Varlet P, Pouponnot C, Osuka S, Pommier Y, Kakita A, Fujii Y, Raabe EH, Eberhart CG, Natsumeda M. Epigenetic upregulation of Schlafen11 renders WNT- and SHH- activated medulloblastomas sensitive to cisplatin. Neuro-oncology 2022
2022.10.07 New	Invited talk at Nagoya University Grad School Medicine.
2022.10.01 New	Taka got an excellence award from Japanese Society for Physical Therapy!
2022.09.09 New	Invited talk at the 46th Annual Meeting of Neuropsychology Association of Japan (in Sapporo).
2022.09.05 New	Yoshino has joined our lab!
2022.08.15 New	Yuka's preprint on the study of CSF-contacting neurons is now on bioRxiv!
2022.08.02 New	Presentation at the "iPlasticity" summer meeting.
2022.06.01 New	A review article: Visualization of neuronal rewiring in brain and spinal cord injury. Sato T, Ueno M. Clin Neurosci. 40(6): 746-9, 2022 (in Japanese)
2022.04.08 New	BRI movies on YouTube!
2022.04.01 New	Takahiro and Kohei have joined our lab, welcome!
2022.03.24 New	Invited talk at the 6th Chi no Hiroba Science Seminar.
2022.02.18 New	Talk at the 11th NIPS-PRI-BRI symposium.
2022.02.18 New	Satoshi's review paper: Transit amplifying progenitors in the cerebellum: similarities to and differences from transit amplifying cells in other brain regions and between species. Miyashita S, Hoshino M. Cells 11(4):726, 2022
2022.01.14 New	Presentation at the "iPlasticity" meeting.
2021.12.01 New	Toki was appointed to Associate professor in BRI!

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