Development in gene transfer techniques for primate brains by means of novel viral vector systems

Research period : 2019-2023
Principal Investigator
高田 昌彦

Masahiko Takada

Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto University

This research project aims at establishing innovative techniques for more effective and stable pathway-selective activity manipulation/imaging and sensitive tract-tracings in primate brains by optogenetic/chemogenetic approaches with novel retrograde/anterograde viral vectors. We also aim at achieving non-invasive and brain-wide gene transfer in primates through the development of novel viral vectors and their delivery system to produce genetically modified model marmosets.

Co-Investigator

  • Kazuhiko Seki

    National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

  • Katsuki Nakamura

    Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto University

  • Takaaki Kaneko

    National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences