Tatsuya Tsukahara (PI)​

Tatsuya grew up in Japan. He received his B.S. in Biology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry from the University of Tokyo. He was then recruited as a junior group leader in Dr. Hiroyuki Takeda’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo and led a research group for several years. During these years working on several biological systems whose goal is to faithfully execute the “blueprints”, his interests expanded to the highly adaptive system, the nervous system. After completing the Neurobiology course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL) in the summer of 2012, he joined Dr. Bob Datta’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School in the fall of 2014 and started neuroscience research. He started a laboratory at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) in September 2023 and is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. He loves running, basketball, hiking, and cooking outside of the lab.