Ryuichi Shigemoto#
| Membership Number: | 4597 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://ist.ac.at/research/life-sciences/shigemoto-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2013 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
- 1998-2013 Professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Kyoto University
- 1995-1996 Visiting scientist, MRC Neuropharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- 1990-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Morphological Brain Science, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
- 1989-1990 Assistant Professor, 1st Department of Anatomy, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
- 1986-1987 Neurologist, Chikamori Hospital, Kochi, Japan
- 1985-1986 Resident for Neurology, Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto
Fields of Scholarship
- Metabotropic glutamate receptor
- AMPA/NMDA/GABAB receptors
- Voltage-gated calcium channel
- Cerebellum
- Long-term depression
- Hippocampus
- Left-right asymmetry of the brain
- Immunocytochemistry
- Electron microscopy
- Freeze-fracture replica labeling
Honours and Awards
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2010 David Smith Lecture, University of Oxford
- 2008 Apathy Plenary Lecture, IBRO international workshop on complex neural networks
- 2004 SORST researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency
- 2000 ISI Citation Laureate Award (Top 30 scientists in Japan, in recognition of authoring multiple high-impact papers from the period 1981-1998)
- 1999 CREST researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency
