Kiyoshi Inoue
Postdoctoral fellow
kinoue@emory.edu
I joined the Young lab as a post-doc in November 2007 after conducting research at Osaka Bioscience Institute, Osaka University and Nagoya City University in Japan. My research interest is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in the expression of higher brain functions and also in the onset of mental disorders which occur when brain function is impaired. Specifically, I have been screening for genes involved in the mechanism of depression using several mouse models of depression, as well as performing functional analyses of the genes identified from the above screens, and genes identified from patient samples.
In this lab, using prairie voles which are socially monogamous rodents, I’m studying the molecular basis of depressive behavior which is caused by a pair-bond loss. I also very interested in brain region specific epigenetic regulation of genes that affect mental states and animal behaviors.