A paper by Naoko and others has been published in Scientific Reports.
Title: Social rank and social environment combinedly affect REM sleep in mice.
Press Release: Social environment impacts sleep quality
A study in mice demonstrates that one’s position in a social hierarchy and their degree of isolation have a measurable impact on the quality of sleep for individual mice
（The University of Tokyo）https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00438.html
Hibiki presented at the 8th Symposium for Ph.D. Program in Humanics, “Interdisciplinary Crossroads – Knowledge Fusion for Breakthroughs” and received the Best Flash Talk Award (December 19th, 2025).
Presentation title: Analyses of REM sleep modulatory system that depends on feeding condition
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Hibiki presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Japan neuroscience Society, Training School for Next Generation Scientists, and got Excellence Award.
Presentation title: Discovery and investigation of a REM sleep modulatory system that depends on feeding conditions
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Hibiki presented at APPW2025 (The 130th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists / The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan / The 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society Joint Conference) and received the Graduate Student Presentation Award (March 17-19, 2025).
Presentation title: Analyses of a novel REM sleep regulatory mechanism that depends on feeding conditions
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Ryunosuke presented at APPW2025 (The 130th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists / The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan / The 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society Joint Conference) and received the Graduate Student Presentation Award (March 17-19, 2025).
Presentation title: Betta fish: a novel vertebrate model for sleep research
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A paper by Mitsuaki and others has been published in Cell (Cell Press).
Title: A pontine-medullary loop crucial for REM sleep and its deficit in Parkinson’s disease.
Press release: Elucidation of the Neural Circuitry Inducing REM Sleep and Identification of the Cause of the “Dream Acting Disorder”
https://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/press/10524/
An illustration that symbolizes our findings (by artist Otama-shimai) was selected as the cover image for Cell (October 31, 2024).
Yoshihiko was awarded the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Tsukuba Global Science Week 2024
Yu was selected as a Project Manager for the Moonshot Research and Development Program (Health and Medical Field) (August 31, 2024).
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/moonshot/top.html
Yu will appear on “Science ZERO” (NHK E)
11/26 (Sun) 23:30～24:00
眠らない日本を救え!“睡眠”研究最前線 – サイエンスZERO – NHK
Yu will appear on “Science ZERO” (NHK E)
9/3 (Sun) 23:30∼24:00
9/9 (Sat) 11:10∼11:40
https://www.nhk.jp/p/zero/ts/XK5VKV7V98/episode/te/385NWQ9QJ2/