Kazuo Nakajima, PhD Degree:Ph.D., The University of Tokyo Areas of specialization:Molecular cell biology,
Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders Kazuo Nakajima, PhD | RIKEN Center for Brain Science - Lab. for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders

Kazuo Nakajima, PhD | RIKEN Center for Brain Science - Lab. for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders

Research Interests

Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders using animal models

Profile

2018-present
Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2013-2018
Research Scientist, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2004-2012
Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo
2001-2004
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (The University of Tokyo)
2001
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo

Selected papers

  1. Kato T, Kasahara T, Kubota-Sakashita M, Kato TM, and Nakajima K. (2016)
    "Animal models of recurrent or bipolar depression"
    Neuroscience, 321, 189-196.
  2. Nakajima K, Kazuno A, Kelsoe J, Nakanishi M, Takumi T, and Kato T. (2016)
    "Exome sequencing in the knockin mice generated using the CRISPR/Cas system"
    Sci. Rep., 6, 34703.
  3. Nakajima K, Yin X, Takei Y, Seog D, Homma N, and Hirokawa N. (2012)
    "Molecular motor KIF5A is essential for GABA(A) receptor transport, and KIF5A deletion causes epilepsy"
    Neuron, 76, 945-961.

Invited talk

  1. Nakajima K, Consideration for establishing knockin mouse models for mental disorders,
    Symposium on the 39th Annual conference of Japanese Society for Biological Psychiatry (2017, Sapporo, JAPAN)