Imamura Lab

Our Lab aims to understand the epigenetic mechanisms that underlie mammalian brain development, exhibiting highly species-specific natures. We employ different types of genome-wide analyses that include those of DNA methylome, ChIP-seq and single cell transcriptome, combined with wide variety of functional analyses. Especially, we are now focusing on the involvement of long non-coding RNAs in the gene-specific epigenetic regulation that can shape species-dependent cellular networking in the cerebral cortex.