Directors and Committee Members of the Japan Neuroscience Society
[Board of Directors] (Term of the board: 2025.6.27.-2027.6 Until the end of the General Assembly)
President
Koji Yamanaka
Vice President
Haruhiko Bito
Ayako M. Watabe
Director of General Affairs
Takashi Hanakawa
Treasurer
Masanori Murayama
Members
Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Kiyoto Kasai, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Fumi Kubo, Kumi Kuroda, Mariko Miyata, Rieko Muramatsu, Kenichi Ohki, Toshihisa Ohtsuka, Hitoshi Okamoto, Noriko Osumi, Sayaka Takemoto, Kenji Tanaka, Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui, Masashi Yanagisawa
Auditor
Yuki Gotoh
Taisuke Tomita
Advisor to the President
Jun Kunimatsu
Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
Junichiro Yoshimoto
Editor-in-Chief for JNS Official Journal
Thomas J. McHugh
Presidents of Annual Meetings
(48th Annual Meeting) Fumino Fujiyama
(49th Annual Meeting) Hiroyuki Kamiguchi
(50th Annual Meeting) Hirokazu Hirai
(51st Annual Meeting) Yukiko Goda
(52nd Annual Meeting) Takashi Hanakawa
[Committee Members]
※○:Chair, *:vice-chair
(Term of the committees: 2025.7.28.-2027.7.23 Until the end of the Annual Meeting)
Executive Committee
○Koji Yamanaka, Haruhiko Bito, Fumino Fujiyama, Yukiko Goda, Takashi Hanakawa, Hirokazu Hirai, Kazutaka Ikeda, Hiroyuki Kamiguchi, Jun Kunimatsu, Masanori Murayama, Sayaka Takemoto, Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui, Hiroaki Wake, Ayako M. Watabe, Junichiro Yoshimoto
Nomination Committee
○Koji Yamanaka, Haruhiko Bito, Fumino Fujiyama, Takashi Hanakawa, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Ayako M. Watabe
Neuroscience News Editing Committee
○Rieko Muramatsu, Akiko Arata, Kimitoshi Kimura, Takahiro Masuda, Ken Nakae, Hiroaki Norimoto, Yuhei Takado, Aki Takahashi
Future Planning Committee
○Hiroaki Wake, Hiroko Bannai, Takashi Hanakawa, Kensuke Ikenaka, Ayako Ishikawa, Masanori Kawabata, Daichi Konno, Chihiro Maeda, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Teruhiro Okuyama, Eiji Shigetomi, Tomoni Shimogori, Kenji Tanaka, Yuki Tsukada
Neuroscience Research Steering Committee
○Koji Yamanaka,Yukiko Goda, Hiroyuki Kamiguchi, Tadafumi Kato, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Michisuke Yuzaki
Neuroscience Research Editing Committee (term: 2023.1.1-2025.12.31)
○Thomas J. McHugh, * Ayako M. Watabe, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Takuji Iwasato, Keiichi Kitajo, Rieko Muramatsu, Yukari Ohki, Toshihisa Ohtsuka, Shinsuke Suzuki, Hideyuki Takeuchi, Taisuke Tomita
Annual Meeting Committee
○Kazutaka Ikeda, Takahiro A. kato, Hiroko Bannai, Haruhiko Bito, Fumino Fujiyama, Yukiko Goda, Nobutaka Hattori, Hirokazu Hirai, Hiroyuki Kamiguchi, Tadafumi Kato, Masabumi Minami, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Toshihisa Ohtsuka, Noriko Osumi, Kumi Ozaki kuroda, Tomomi Shimogori, Ryosuke Takahashi, Aya Takemura, Koji Yamanaka, Hidenori Yamasue
Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award Selection Committee
○Hidenori Yamasue, Fumi Kubo, Masanori Murayama, Yoshitaka Nagai, Takuya Sasaki, Sayaka Takemoto-kimura, Takayuki Yamashita, Yoko Yazaki-sugiyam
International Collaboration Affairs Committee
○Haruhiko Bito
International Collaboration Affairs Committee - Working Group for Collaboration among Japanese, Chinese and South Korean Neuroscience Societies
○Haruhiko Bito
Advocacy Committee
○Tetsuya Matsuda, Tadashi Isa, Kazuyuki Nakagome, Shigeo Okabe, Hideyuki Okano
Outreach Committee
○Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Hiroko Bannai, Kei Igarashi, Hisatsugu Koshimizu, Kenji Matsumoto, Hiromu Monai
Industry-Academia Partnership Committee
○Hideya Sakaguchi, Yuko Arioka, Ippei Hagiwara, Masaya Hagiwara, Takuya Ibaraki, Yoshiho Ikeuchi, Daichi Konno, Takayoshi Matsubara, Kenji Matsumoto, Madoka Matsumoto
Website Committee
○Takuya Sasaki, Akiko Arata, Daisuke H. tanaka, Wataru Kakegawa, Shinya Kawaguchi, Hisako Nakayama, Yo Shinoda, Shogo Soma, Sachiko Tsuda, Keisuke Yonehara
Diversity Committee
○Sayaka Takemoto-Kimura, Kei Igarashi, Sayaka Inoue, Fumi Kubo, Noriko Osumi, Eri Segi-nishida, Sayaka Sugiyama, Hideaki Takeuchi, Dan Wang, Ayako M. Watabe, Yoko Yazaki-sugiyama
Academic Diversity Committee
○Kiyoto Kasai, Fumino Fujiyama, Takashi Hanakawa, Aya Ishida, Tadafumi Kato, Masahisa Katsuno, Kenji Tanaka, Sho Yagishita, Yumiko Yoshimura
Information Infrastructure Committee
○Junichiro Yoshimoto, Yoshihiro Okumura, Yukako Yamane, Ayumu Yamashita, Takayuki Yamashita
Ethics Committee
○Takashi Hanakawa, Fumie Arie, Misao Fujita, Tamami Fukushi, Haruhiko Kishima, Riki Matsumoto, Makoto Udagawa
COI Committee
○Keiichi Kitajo, Tomoko Aoki, Akiko Hayashi-takagi, Hiroshi Kuba
Animal Experiment Committee
○Takanori Uka, Kentaro Abe, Isao Hasegawa, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kuba, Katsuki Nakamura, Eiji Shigetomi, Aya Takemura
BrainBee Committee
○Tetsu Okumura, Midori Sakura, Takeshi Sakurai, Nobuhiro Yamagata
Brain Science Dictionary Committee
○Yasunori Hayashi
(Cognition, System, and Circuit)
Ichiro Fujita, Norihiro Sadato, Keiji Tanaka, Masahiko Watanabe
(Cell, Molecule, and Synapse)
Tomoyuki Furuyashiki, Yasunori Hayashi, Keiji Wada, Michisuke Yuzaki
(Development)
Carina Hanashima, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Masahito Yamagata
(Clinical Medicine)
Tadafumi Kato, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Makoto Urushitani, Koji Yamanaka
(Computational Neuroscience)
Hiroaki Gomi, Keiichi Kitajo,Hiroaki Wagatsuma
(Technical Professional)
Yoshihiro Okumura
PIC of the Union of Japanese Societies for Biological Science
○Taisuke Tomita, Mariko Miyata, Masanori Murayama
PIC of the Union of Japanese Societies for Brain Science
○Koji Yamanaka, Tadashi Isa, Michisuke Yuzaki
Working Group for the 50th Anniversary Event of JNS's Foundation
○Jun Kunimatsu, Tsuyoshi Ikegami, Minako Okazaki, Saeka Tomatsu
Altman Award Selection Committee
○Kinichi Nakashima, Jenny Hsieh, Aya Ishida, Tomasz Nowakowski, Noriko Osumi, Haruki Takeuchi