RIKEN CBS RETREAT 2024
Poster Awardees

Prize Presenter’s name Affiliation Poster title
Best of the best Ayako Ouchi Shigeyoshi Fujisawa (Systems Neurophysiology) Grid representation for predicting future pathways
Pillar 1 1st Place Kaname Ogasawara Takahiko Koike (Inter-Individual Brain Dynamics Collaboration Unit) The effects of psychological pressure on perceptual decision-making
Pillar 1 2nd Place Binglun LI Masanori Matsuzaki (Brain Functional Dynamics Collaboration Laboratory) Exploring the neural basis of mirror neuron system through calcium imaging in marmosets
Pillar 1 3rd Place Akiya Watakabe Tomomi Shimogori (Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Development) Columnar connections of the marmoset prefrontal cortex
Pillar 1 3rd Place Fumiaki SATO Masako Tamaki (Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team) Human visual recognition is reshaped by spontaneous brain activity during sleep
Pillar 2 1st Place Koji Matsuda Fumi Kubo (Sensorimotor Integration) Molecular labeling of direction-selective pretectal neuron subsets using CaMPARI-seq
Pillar 2 1st Place Xiaowei Gu Joshua Johansen (Neural Circuitry of Learning and Memory) The mechanism underlying the involvement of rat mPFC in the inference of aversive memory
Pillar 2 1st Place Fangke XU Adrian Moore (Neurodiversity) Activity Dependent Transcriptomic Changes in Periphery Nociceptors Regulate Growth and Feeding
Pillar 2 2nd Place Yusuke KASUGA Joshua Johansen (Neural Circuitry of Learning and Memory) A neural circuit targeting technique for investigating functional input-output organization in the nervous system
Pillar 2 2nd Place Kunlin HSIEH Joshua Johansen (Neural Circuitry of Learning and Memory) The role of central amygdala in respiratory interoception during reward seeking
Pillar 3 1st Place Issey SUKEDA Takeru Matsuda (Statistical Mathematics Collaboration Unit) Regularized score matching of torus graph model applied to EEG phase-based connectivity analyses
Pillar 3 2nd Place Kensuke YOSHIDA Taro Toyoizumi (Neural Computation and Adaptation) A theoretical model of schema learning during sleep
Pillar 4 1st Place Kai SATO Motomasa Tanaka (Protein Conformation Diseases) mRNA translation dynamics in excitatory neurons of mice under chronic social defeat stress-induced depression
Pillar 4 2nd Place Takahiro Morito Takaomi Saido (Proteolytic Neuroscience) Introducing Three Pathogenic Mutations into Human MAPT Knock-in Mouse Yields a Novel Model for Four-Repeat Tauopathies
Pillar 4 2nd Place Yuko Hasegawa Hirofumi Nakatomi (Biomedical Neural Dynamics Collaboration Laboratory) Characterization of Surgical Specimens from Patients with Brain Arteriovenous Malformations and Investigation of the Pathological Mechanisms Driving Disease Progression
Pillar 4 2nd Place Yuki NIWA Atsushi Takata (Molecular Pathology of Psychiatric Disorders) Unexpected opposite phenotypes between two mice models of schizophrenia with high etiological validity
Pillar 4 2nd Place Lana Okuma Hirofumi Nakatomi (Biomedical Neural Dynamics Collaboration Laboratory) Exploration of inhibitory compounds that mitigate intracranial aneurysms arising from somatic mutations

Comment

  • Ayako Ouchi
    Special Postdoctoral Researcher

    I am very honored to receive the best of best prize in the poster session of the CBS Retreat 2024. I have learned a lot through my publication from last year to this year. Through the poster presentation, it was a great opportunity to encourage me to work hard again for the next project. At the retreat, I had many opportunities to talk with researchers of theoretical models, and we talked about collaboration in the near future, which was very meaningful. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone involved in organizing this year’s retreat and to Dr. Fujisawa, who has been a mentor to me.

  • Fangke XU
    Special Postdoctoral Researcher

    Thank the retreat committee and HD team for orgnizing this year’s retreat. I am truely hornor to receive the poster prize. Preparing the poster gave me an valuable opportunity to reflect on the overall narrative of my work from the audience’s perspective. I am also deeply grateful for all the feedbacks and suggestions I received. It was inspiring to hear and learn about other collegues’ research as well. Thanks to the organizers, I was able to connect with both old and new friends from different labs while enjoying the beautiful view of Mt. Fuji. It was an amazing retreat experience.

  • Issey Sukeda
    Junior Research Associate, 1st year PhD (UTokyo)

    It is an honor to receive the 1st place award in the Theory/Tech Pillar. This was my second time attending the retreat, and it was truly an enjoyable experience. I had the incredible opportunity to learn about the exciting neuroscience research in CBS, which was deeply inspiring. I’m grateful for the thoughtful and constructive feedback on my work, especially given my background in statistical methodology and my relatively limited experience in neuroscience. In addition to the formal seminars and poster sessions, I also had a fantastic time at the lodge, where I was able to meet new colleagues and friends. Thank you to everyone who made this retreat!

  • Kai Sato
    Postdoctoral Researcher

    I am very honored to receive this prestigious award at the CBS Retreat 2024.The CBS Retreat has been a very meaningful and stimulating experience in my research work, as it provides a valuable opportunity to participate in discussions with a diverse group of people. In fact, I was able to further my research based on the suggestions I got from last year’s Retreat.
    However, this year’s Retreat offered few opportunities for young researchers and students to make presentations, so I sincerely hope that future events will have sessions organized by young researchers and students.

  • Koji Matsuda
    Research Scientist

    I am deeply honored to have been selected for 1st Place in Pillar 2. The poster session at RIKEN CBS was an incredibly stimulating and meaningful experience for me. I am sincerely grateful for this invaluable opportunity. I would also like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to my lab mentors for their continuous guidance and to everyone involved in organizing and managing the retreat. I am encouraged by this award, and I am more determined than ever to dedicate myself to further advancing my research.

  • Kanae Ogasawara
    Postdoctoral Researcher

    It is a great honor for me to receive 1st place of Pillar 1 at the CBS Retreat 2024. About a year ago, I experienced extreme nervousness at one of the seminars, , where my mind went completely blank and I froze during the Q&A session – a real case of “choking”, and that made me lose my confidence I could continue research activities in CBS. At last retreat, I enjoyed to share the excitement of my research and engage in discussions, and this experience could revive my confidence that　my research in the right direction. I will continue to strive every day to present even more exciting research next year.

  • Xiaowei Gu
    Postdoctoral Researcher

    It is such an honor that I can receive the poster award of CBS retreat 2024. I really enjoyed the trip near to Mount Fuji with fascinating view. Something more attractive than the sightseeing is the communication with other researchers of CBS in such a causal atmosphere. It was a great opportunity to get new ideas and inspirations from the discussion. I was also motivated for new findings after this enjoyable retreat.