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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)

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