Prof Yukinori HIRANO

Associate Professor, Division of Life Science
Representing Faculty, School of Science

Research Interest 

• Molecular and cellular neuroscience
• Aging
• Neuroscience

Highlighted Publications

1. Takakura, M., Nakagawa, R., Ota, T., Kimura, Y., Ng, M.Y., Alia, A.G., Okuno, H., Hirano, Y. Rpd3/CoRest-mediated activity-dependent transcription regulates the flexibility in memory updating in Drosophila. Nature communications 12, 628, 2021.
2. Awata H, Takakura M, Kimura Y, Iwata I, Masuda T, Hirano Y. The Neural Circuit Linking Mushroom Body Parallel Circuits Induces Memory Consolidation in Drosophila. PNAS, 116, 16080-16085, 2019.
3. Hirano Y, Ihara K, Masuda T, Yamamoto T, Iwata I, Takahashi A, Awata H, Nakamura N, Takakura M, Suzuki Y, Horiuchi J, Okuno H, Saitoe M. Shifting transcriptional machinery is required for long-term memory maintenance and modification in Drosophila mushroom bodies. Nature Communications. 7:13471, 2016
4. Yamazaki D, Horiuchi J, Ueno K, Ueno T, Saeki S, Matsuno M, Naganos S, Miyashita T, Hirano Y. Nishikawa H, Taoka M, Yamauchi Y, Isobe Y, Honda Y, Kodama Y, Masuda T, Saitoe M. Glial dysfunction causes age-related memory impairment in Drosophila. Neuron. 84:753-63, 2014.
5. Hirano Y, Masuda T, Naganos S, Matsuno M, Ueno K, Miyashita T, Horiuchi J, Saitoe M. Fasting launches CRTC to facilitate long-term memory formation in Drosophila. Science. 339:443-6, 2013