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| Yasunori MURAKAMI received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, for his research on the functional analysis of plexin molecules in neuronal development. He then worked as a postdoc in the field of vertebrate brain evolution under the supervision of Dr. Shigeru KURATANI at Okayama University and the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology from 2000 to 2003, where he made evolutionary morphological analyses of the vertebrate brain using lamprey embryos. He found that neuromeres, which are thought to be the basic components of the vertebrate brain, emerged before the divergence of agnathans and gnathostomes, and further identified that rhombomere-dependent and Hox- dependent neuronal patterning mechanisms might have been established independently in the vertebrate common ancestor. He moved to Dr. Filippo Rijli’s laboratory in the Institut de Genetique et Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) in 2004 with the support of a JSPS foreign research fellowship to study the developmental mechanisms of vertebrate hindbrain neurons. His work seeks to deepen the understanding of how the developmental plan of vertebrate nervous system has been modified in the evolutionary process. |
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