Shin Yamazaki, Ph.D.

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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.

• 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

Featured Publications

Multiscale Time-resolved Analysis Reveals Remaining Behavioral Rhythms in Mice Without Canonical Circadian Clocks.

Morris M, Yamazaki S, Stefanovska A, J Biol Rhythms 2022 May 7487304221087065

Genetics and functional significance of the understudied methamphetamine sensitive circadian oscillator (MASCO).

Taufique SKT, Ehichioya DE, Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S, F1000Res 2022 11 1018

Peripheral Circadian Oscillators.

Brown AJ, Pendergast JS, Yamazaki S, Yale J Biol Med 2019 Jun 92 2 327-335

Period-independent novel circadian oscillators revealed by timed exercise and palatable meals.

Flôres DE, Bettilyon CN, Yamazaki S Sci Rep 2016 6 21945

Period determination in the food-entrainable and methamphetamine-sensitive circadian oscillator(s).

Pendergast JS, Oda GA, Niswender KD, Yamazaki S Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2012 Aug 109 35 14218-23

Circadian-independent cell mitosis in immortalized fibroblasts.

Yeom M, Pendergast JS, Ohmiya Y, Yamazaki S Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2010 May 107 21 9665-70

Entrainment of the circadian clock in the liver by feeding.

Stokkan KA, Yamazaki S, Tei H, Sakaki Y, Menaker M Science 2001 Jan 291 5503 490-3

Resetting central and peripheral circadian oscillators in transgenic rats.

Yamazaki S, Numano R, Abe M, Hida A, Takahashi R, Ueda M, Block GD, Sakaki Y, Menaker M, Tei H Science 2000 Apr 288 5466 682-5

Rhythmic properties of the hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus in vivo.

Yamazaki S, Kerbeshian MC, Hocker CG, Block GD, Menaker M J. Neurosci. 1998 Dec 18 24 10709-23

Coupling-dependent metabolic ultradian rhythms in confluent cells.

Yang S, Yamazaki S, Cox KH, Huang YL, Miller EW, Takahashi JS, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022 Nov 119 45 e2211142119

 Featured Books

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