Yutaka Yoshida

Professor

PhD University of Tokyo 1999
BS Keio University 1994

Japan

Professional Experience

Professor, OIST, 2023 April-Present
Associate Professor, Burke Neurological Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, 2018-present
Transitional Professor, OIST, 2018-2023 March
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2015-2018
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2008-2015

Awards

Endowed scholars at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2016-2018
Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award of March of Dimes, 2009-2011
Trustee Grant Award from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2009
Long Term Fellowship from Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), 2003-2006
Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists (PD), 1999-2002
American Association for Cancer Research-ITOEN Young Investigator Award, 1998
Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists (DC1), 1996-1999

Select Publications

Ueno M., Ueno-Nakamura, Y., Li J, Gu Z., Niehaus J., Maezawa M., Crone S.A., Goulding M., Baccei M.L., and Yoshida Y. (2018). Corticospinal circuits from the sensory and motor cortex differentially regulate skilled movements through distinct interneurons. Cell Reports, 23, 1286-1300
Yoshida Y., Isa T. (2018). Neural and genetic basis of dexterous hand movements. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 52, 25-32.
Gu Z., Sarrad N., Ueno M., Liang M., Li J., Enquist L.W., Baccei M.R., Martin J.H., and Yoshida Y. (2017). Skilled movements require non-apoptotic Bax/Bak pathway-mediated corticospinal circuit reorganization. Neuron, 94, 626-641.
Gu Z., Kalamboglas J., Yoshioka S., Han W., Zhuo L., Imamura Kawasawa Y., Pochareddy S., LiZ., Liu F., Xu X., Wijeratne S., Ueno M., Blatz E., Salomone J., Kumanogoh A., Rasin M.R., Gebelein B., Weirauch M.T., Sestan N., Martin J.H., and Yoshida Y. (2017). Control of species-dependent cortico-motoneuronal connections underlying manual dexterity, Science, 357, 400-404.
Ueno M., Ueno-Nakamura Y., Niehaus J., Popovich P.G., and Yoshida Y. (2016). Silencing spinal interneurons inhibits immune suppressive autonomic reflexes caused by spinal cord injury. Nature Neuroscience, 19, 784-787
Imai F., Chen X., Weirauch M.T., and Yoshida Y. (2016). Requirement of Dicer in maintenance of monosynaptic sensory-motor circuits in the spinal cord. Cell Reports, 17, 2163-72.
Fukuhara K., Imai F., Ladle D.R., Katayama K., Leslie J.R., Arber S., Jessell T.M., and Yoshida Y. (2013). Specificity of monosynaptic sensory-motor connections imposed by repellent Sema3E-PlexD1 signaling. Cell Reports, 5, 748-58. 3139-3145.
Yoshida Y., Han B., Mendelsohn M., and Jessell T.M. (2006). PlexinA1 signaling directs the segregation of proprioceptive sensory axons in the developing spinal cord. Neuron 52, 775-88.
Gu C.^*, Yoshida Y.^*, Livet J., Reimert D.V., Mann F., Merte J., Henderson C.E., Jessell T.M., Kolodkin A.L., and Ginty D.D. (2005). Semaphorin 3E and plexin-D1 control vascular pattern independently of neuropilins. Science 307, 265-8. *shared first authorship.
Yoshida, Y., Tanakam S., Umemori, H., Minowa, O., Usui, M., Ikematsu, N., Hosoda, E., Imamura, T., Kuno, J., Yamashita, T., Miyazono, K., Noda, M., Noda, T., and Yamamoto, T. (2000). Negative regulation of BMP/Smad signaling by Tob in osteoblasts. Cell 103, 1085-97.