Hitoshi Sakano

University of Fukui, Japan

Title: Neural Circuit Formation and Sensory Perception in the Mouse Olfactory System

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Biography

Sakano received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University in 1976. For his thesis work Sakano investigated tRNA processing by isolating the temperature-sensitive mutants of the ribozyme RNAase P in E. coli.

From 1978 to 1981, Sakano worked at Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland on immunoglobulin genes to solve the problem of antibody diversity. He published five Nature article papers  providing the evidence for combinatorial and junctional diversification of antibody genes.

Sakano then moved to the University of California at Berkeley as Assistant Professor in 1982 and was promoted to tenured Full Professor in 1992. He relocated to University of Tokyo in 1994 changing his research field to Neuroscience.

Sakano is currently Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo and Professor in Neuroscience at University of Fukui.

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