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ABOUT TK (Tsukasa Kamigaki )

Assistant professor at Lee Kong Chain (LKC) School of Medicine, a joint medical school between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Imperial College London (ICL). 

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He studied the neural mechanisms of behavioral flexibility using electrophysiology and pharmacology in monkeys and obtained a Ph.D. at Univ. of Tokyo, School of Medicine. 

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Supported by the long-term fellowship in HFSP, he switched animal model to mice to study working memory using calcium imaging, optogenetics, and electrophysiology at UC Berkeley.

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Employment History

2019-Current  Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Novena, Singapore

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2011-2019      Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA (Yang Dan lab)

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2010-2011      Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (Yasushi Miyashita lab)

Education

2004-2010   Ph.D. (Medicine) The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology in primates (Yasushi Miyashita lab)

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2004-2004   B.S. (Neuroscience) The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

Language processing in the human brain (Kuniyoshi Sakai lab)

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Awards & Fellowships

2018      MCB Outstanding Postdoc award in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley

2018      Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award

2012      Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowships (3 years)

2011      The Uehara Memorial Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2007      Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Lee Kong Chian (LKC) School of Medicine logo (The joint medical school between Nanyang Technological Univeristy, NTU and Imperial Colleage London)

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine,

Nanyang Technological University (NTU),

Singapore

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