Established March 2020!! We are interested in how the brain perceives and interprets sensory inputs to perform behavior. How does the prior knowledge affect sensory perception? Our lab identifies the neuronal processes of decision making and compares the functions with machine learning algorithms.
Positions available for Graduate students and Postdocs
We are looking for Graduate Students who are interested in following topics:
Neural mechanism of perceptual and value-based decision making
Understand the brain through experiments (imaging, optogenetics, behavioral task, e-phys) and/or computations (deep learning, Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning)
Combine the experimental and computational approach
Compare the mechanism of brain and artificial intelligence (AI)
Our lab is taking students through Department of Life Science, the University of Tokyo. Please go to the website and receive the information about entrance exam. Contact us anytime for lab visit, Zoom discussion, questions and discussions.
We are also looking for postdocs and JSPS research fellows for next year. Please email us anytime.
Email: funamizu [at] iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp
News & Topics
2024.5 Our paper (first author: Kotaro Ishizu) is published in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48338-6).
2024.5 Huayi Gao and Yuki Yoneyama joined as a Technician.
2024.4 Myung Chung (Research Associate), Shun Araki (Researcher), and Tomoya Taenaka (M1) joined
2024.3 Graduation of Kotaro Ishizu and Ines Ribeiro.
2024. 2 Preprint (first author: Shuo Wang) is open in bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.579559v1)
2023. 11 Our students' first international conference. 1 oral and 2 posters @ Society for Neuroscience (SfN).
2023. 10 Research of Funamizu (done in Zador lab, CSHL) is in Current Biology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.031).
2023. 9 Yutaro Ueoka (Research Associate) received a Conference Encouragement Award @ JNNS2023.
2023. 4 Kouta Yamada (Researcher) and Hayato Maeda (M1) joined
2023. 3 First Master Course Graduate from our lab!, Congratulation Kakuma Hata!!
2023. 2 Maria Ines de Sa Ribeiro joined as a Technician
2022. 8 Aina Yamane joined as a Technician
2021. 4 Taku Hirota (D1) and Shosuke Nishimoto (M1) joined
2022. 1 Yutaro Ueoka joined as a Researcher
Past topics
year 2021
2021. 11 Yasuo Kabe (D2@Univ. Tokyo) joined as a Short-term Technician (until 2022. 3)
2021. 8 Naoki Ishida (M1@Univ. Tokyo) joined as a Short-term Technician (until 2021. 10)
2021. 8 First article from our lab is in iScience (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102826)
2021. 5 Review on Clinical Neuroscience ~意思決定と行動選択の神経科学~ (in Japanese)
2021. 4 Shuo Wang (D1) and Kakuma Hata (M1) joined
2021. 2 Yu Nakanishi (B3@Univ. Tokyo) joined as a Short-term Technician (until 2021. 3)
year 2020
2020. 12 Review on Japanense Neural Network Society (in Japanese) (https://doi.org/10.3902/jnns.27.165 )
2020. 3 Lab start!!
