Hiroshi Nishiyama

  • Associate Professor
  • Neuroscience
  • Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Biography

Education/Training:

Kyoto University, Japan (1992-1996) B.S.

Kyoto University, Japan (1996-1998) M.S.

Kyoto University & RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan (1998-2002) Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD (2002-2008) Postdoctoral

Research

The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of synaptic connections in the mammalian brain. In particular, how axonal innervations to postsynaptic targets are: (1) refined during brain development, and (2) reorganized in adulthood with learning and memory, and (3) with brain injury.

Research Areas

  • Neuroscience
  • Learning and Memory

Fields of Interest

  • Electrophys, Optogenetics & Chemogenetics
  • Optical Imaging
  • Cellular/Molecular/Structure
  • Learning/Memory/Plasticity

Education

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD (2002-2008) Postdoctoral
  • Kyoto University & RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan (1998-2002) Ph.D.
  • Kyoto University, Japan (1996-1998) M.S.
  • Kyoto University, Japan (1992-1996) B.S.

Publications

  • Nishiyama H, Nishiyama N, & Zemelman BV. Loss of Purkinje cells in the developing cerebellum strengthens the cerebellothalamic synapses. bioRxiv (2023)

    Dey MR, Reddy K, Yoshida H, Nishiyama N, Zemelman BV, & Nishiyama H. Granule cells constitute one of the major neuronal subtypes in the molecular layer of the posterior cerebellum. eNeuro 9(3):ENEURO.0289-21.2022 (2022)

    Dhar, M., Hantman, A.W., & Nishiyama, H. Developmental pattern and structural factors of dendritic survival in cerebellar granule cells in vivo. Scientific Reports 8, 17561 (2018)

    Dhar, M., Brenner, J.M., Sakimura, K., Kano, M., & Nishiyama, H. (2016) Spatiotemporal dynamics of lesion-induced axonal sprouting and its relation to functional architecture of the cerebellum. Nature Communications 7, 12938 (2016)

    Nishiyama, H. Dendritic translocation of climbing fibers: a new face of old phenomenon. Cerebellum 14, 1-3 (2015)

    Nishiyama, H. Learning-induced structural plasticity in the cerebellum. International Review of Neurobiology 117, 1-19 (2014)

    Nishiyama, N., Colonna, J., Shen, E., Carrillo, J., & Nishiyama, H. Long-term in vivo time-lapse imaging of synapse development and plasticity in the cerebellum. Journal of Neurophysiology 111, 208-216 (2014)

    Carrillo, J., Cheng, S. Y., Ko, K. W., Jones, T. A., & Nishiyama, H. The long-term structural plasticity of cerebellar parallel fiber axons and its modulation by motor learning. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 8301-8307 (2013)

    Carrillo, J., Nishiyama, N., & Nishiyama, H. Dendritic translocation establishes the winner in cerebellar climbing fiber synapse elimination. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 7641-7653 (2013)

    Kim, H. S., Seto-Ohshima, A., Nishiyama, H., & Itohara, S. Normal delay eyeblink conditioning in mice devoid of astrocytic S100B. Neuroscience Letters 489, 148-153 (2011)

    Tanaka, M., Yamaguchi, K., Tatsukawa, T., Nishioka, C., Nishiyama, H., Theis, M., Willecke, K., & Itohara, S. Lack of Connexin43-mediated bergmann glial gap junctional coupling does not affect cerebellar long-term depression, motor coordination, or eyeblink conditioning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 2, 1-14 (2008)

    Nishiyama, H., Fukaya, M., Watanabe, M., & Linden, D. J. Axonal motility and its modulation by activity are branch-type specific in the intact adult cerebellum. Neuron 56, 472-487 (2007)

    Nishiyama, H., & Linden, D. J. Pure spillover transmission between neurons. Nature Neuroscience 10, 675-677 (2007)

    Nishiyama, H., & Linden, D. J. Differential maturation of climbing fiber innervation in cerebellar vermis. Journal of Neuroscience 24, 3926-3932 (2004)

    Takemura, M., Nishiyama, H., & Itohara, S. Distribution of phosphorylated glial fibrillary acidic protein in the mouse central nervous system. Genes to Cells 7, 295-307 (2002)

    Nishiyama, H., Takemura, M., Takeda, T., & Itohara, S. Normal development of serotonergic neurons in mice lacking S100B. Neuroscience Letters 321, 49-52 (2002)

    Nishiyama, H., Knopfel, T., Endo, S., & Itohara, S. Glial protein S100B modulates long-term neuronal synaptic plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99, 4037-4042 (2002)

    Iwasato, T., Datwani, A., Wolfe, A.M., Nishiyama, H., Taguchi, Y., Tonegawa, S., Knöpfel, T., Erzurumlu, R.S., & Itohara, S. Cortex-restricted disruption of NMDAR1 impairs neuronal patterns in the barrel cortex. Nature 406, 726-731 (2000)