Tsukasa Kamigaki

Tsukasa Kamigaki is an Assistant Professor at LKCMedicine. He obtained a Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of Tokyo School of Medicine, where he investigated the cellular mechanisms for cognitive flexibility in non-human primates. After graduation, he worked as a postdoc at the University of California Berkeley, and successfully established a behavioral paradigm to test working memory in mice. Taking advantage of cell-type specific calcium imaging, optogenetic manipulation, electrophysiology, he identified the functional roles of each inhibitory interneuron subtype in the prefrontal cortex. He was a recipient of series of awards and scholarships including Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowship, Uehara Memorial Foundation, Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award, and MCB Outstanding Postdoc award in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley.