OKAMOTO Yuji

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Affiliation

Graduate School of Medicine  Doctorial Course in Medicine  Bioregulatory Medicine  Department of Cell Physiology
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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • Neurophysiology

  • Synapse

  • Synaptic transmission

  • Synaptic plasticity

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

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    2012.03

    Doshisha University     Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

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    2018.03

    Doshisha University    Doctor's Course  Completed

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2023.12
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    Now

    Akita University   Graduate School of Medicine   Doctorial Course in Medicine   Bioregulatory Medicine   Department of Cell Physiology   Assistant Professor  

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2018.04
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    2023.11

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria   Jonas Group   Researcher  

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Life Science / Neuroscience-general

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Thesis for a degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Distinct modes of endocytotic presynaptic membrane and protein retrieval at the calyx of held terminal

    Yuji Okamoto 

      2018.03

    Single author

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Research Achievements 【 display / non-display 】

    ◆Original paper【 display / non-display 】

  • Presynaptic cAMP-PKA-mediated potentiation induces reconfiguration of synaptic vesicle pools and channel-vesicle coupling at hippocampal mossy fiber boutons

    Olena Kim, Yuji Okamoto, Walter A Kaufmann, Nils Brose, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Peter Jonas

    PLoS Biology     2024.11  [Refereed]

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  • Single-vesicle imaging reveals actin-dependent spatial restriction of vesicles at the active zone, essential for sustained transmission

    Takafumi Miki, Yuji Okamoto, Miyuki Ueno-Umegai, Rio Toyofuku, Shun Hattori, Takeshi Sakaba

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   121 ( 43 )   2024.10  [Refereed]

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  • Subcellular patch-clamp techniques for single-bouton stimulation and simultaneous pre- and postsynaptic recording at cortical synapses

    David Vandael, Yuji Okamoto, Carolina Borges-Merjane, Victor Vargas-Barroso, Benjamin A Suter, Peter Jonas

    Nature Protocols     2021.06  [Refereed]

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  • Transsynaptic modulation of presynaptic short-term plasticity in hippocampal mossy fiber synapses

    David Vandael, Yuji Okamoto, Peter Jonas

    Nature Communications     2021.05  [Refereed]

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  • Distinct modes of endocytotic presynaptic membrane and protein uptake at the calyx of Held terminal of rats and mice

    Yuji Okamoto, Noa Lipstein, Yunfeng Hua, Kun-Han Lin, Nils Brose, Takeshi Sakaba, Mitsuharu Midorikawa

    eLife     2016.05  [Refereed]

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