Biography

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1992-1993       Postdoctoral Fellow (Neuroscience): Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.  (Mentor: Shin-Ichi T Inouye, Ph.D.)

1993-1994       Postdoctoral Fellow (Neuroscience): Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan.  (Mentor: Yoichiro Kuroda, Ph.D.)

1994-1996       Research Associate (Chronobiology): Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Mentors: Michael Menaker, Ph.D. and Gene D Block, Ph.D.)

1996-2002      Research Scientist: Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA.

2000-2002       Center Investigator: NSF Center for Biological Timing

2002-2006       Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

2006-2013       Member of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development

2006-2013       Research Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Research Interest

  • Circadian Physiology
  • Feeding and Light Entrainment of the Circadian System
  • Live Cell/Tissue Real-Time Imaging
  • Mouse Models for Human Disorders Caused by Disruption/Disorganization/Misalignment of the Circadian System
  • Neural Circuit Controlling Feeding and Locomotor Activity Rhythms
  • Pacemaker Coupling

Publications

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Protocol to study circadian food-anticipatory pokingĀ inĀ mice using the feeding experimentation device version 3.
Ehichioya DE, Masud I, Taufique SKT, Jeong B, Farah S, Eischeid A, Balaji K, Shen M, Takahashi JS, Yamazaki S, STAR Protoc 2024 Mar 5 2 102935
Mammalian circadian clock proteins form dynamic interacting microbodies distinct from phase separation.
Xie P, Xie X, Ye C, Dean KM, Laothamatas I, Taufique SKT, Takahashi J, Yamazaki S, Xu Y, Liu Y, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023 Dec 120 52 e2318274120

Books

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Extra-SCN Circadian Pacemakers.. In Biological Clocks with reference to suprachiasmatic nucleus Proceedings of the Sapporo Symposium on Biological Rhythm November 9-10, 2016. (Honma K and Honma S eds)

Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S (2017). Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido University Press