Hokto Kazama

Hokto Kazama

Principal Investigator

Laboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Room 313, Brain Science East Building
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi,
Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Tel: +81-48-462-1111 (ext.7151)
Fax: +81-48-467-9684
Email: hokto.kazama [at] riken.jp

Research Experience

2006/04-05

2006/05-2010/05

2010/06-2018/03

2011/04-2021/03

2018/04-present

2021/04-present

Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Research Fellow in Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, RIKEN Brain Science Institute

Visiting associate professor, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Visiting professor, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo


Education

2001 B.S.

2003 M.S.

2006 Ph.D.

Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


Awards

2003-2006

2006-2007

2008-2010

2009

2017

Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (DC1)

Research fellow of the Uehara Memorial Foundation

National Research Service Award (NIH, F32DC009538)

Keystone Symposia Education Fund Scholarship

Ando Momofuku Award


Funding

2011-2013

2013-2014

2015-2017

2018-2019

2018-2020

2021-2025

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education

Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education


Teaching Experience

2003-2004

2009

2010-present

2011-present

2015-present

Teaching assistant, The University of Tokyo Undergraduate laboratory: Biophysics

Lecture on English presentation at the National Institute of Genetics

Lecture on introductory brain science at the University of Tokyo

Lecture on learning and memory / Drosophila neurobiology at RIKEN BSI and CBS

Lecture on biology at Chiba University