KANDA Shinji

Associate Professor

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), Department of Biological Sciences (UG), Department of Biological Sciences (GR), Graduate School of Science

Current Research

Creatures are different from artificial machines in that, at cellular level, they have larger noise, which are nearly diminished at the organismic level. Interactions, including feedback, is the key to explaining this phenomenon. Among interactions, I am focusing on hormones and hypothalamic neurons, which are also playing important roles in the adaptation to the changing environment. Recently, I also started a study on paralogous gene evolution by using peptidergic neurons as a model.

Keywords

Adaptation, medaka, transgenic, patch clamp, imaging, in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, peptidergic neurons