Izumi Fukunaga grew up in Japan and Malaysia, and went to London, UK to study neuroscience. She came to OIST in 2017 to investigate how sensory circuits in the brain function.
Professional Experience
Society for Neuroscience Program Committee member
Academic Editor, PLoS Biology
Associate Editor, Neuroscience Research
Career Development Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Post-doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Germany
Awards
JSPS Kakenhi C. Illusory olfactory stimuli to probe pathway-specific stimulus encoding
JSPS Kakenhi C. Elucidating the mechanisms underlying state dependent sensory processing
Prefectural grant: Project to Promote the Creation of University-Launched Science and Technology Projects for Solving Social Problems
Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship
UCL Alumni scholarship
Selected Publications
Koldaeva A., Schaefer A.T., Fukunaga I. (2019) Rapid task-dependent tuning of the mouse olfactory bulb. eLife 8:e43558
Fukunaga I., Herb J.T., Kollo M., Boyden E.S. and Schaefer A.T. (2014) Independent control of gamma and theta activity by distinct interneuron networks in the olfactory bulb. Nature Neuroscience 17: 1208-1216.
Fukunaga,I., Berning,M., Kollo,M., Schmalz,A., and Schaefer A.T. (2012) Distinct Temporal Channels of Olfactory Bulb Output. Neuron 75:320-329.
