Mototaka Suzuki
Main Lab Location：
Osaka Univ. (Suita Campus)Other Affiliations：
Swammerdam Institute for Life SciencesUniversity of Amsterdam
Mailing Address：
1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita City Osaka, 565-0871Email：
m.suzuki.fbs at osaka-u.ac.jpThe operating principles of the brain are still unknown and fundamentally different from those of current artificial intelligence systems. There is no doubt that unraveling the operating principles of the brain is not only of biological and medical importance but also of critical importance in the field of engineering as it has the potential to result in the development of next-generation artificial intelligence. Using an unprecedented approach that combines innovative new tools and state-of-the-art technology, we aim to elucidate the fundamental principle of brain computation with the particular focus on the dendrites and metabotropic receptors.
Selected Publications：
Mototaka Suzuki, Cyriel M A Pennartz, Jaan Aru
How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 24(12):778-791 2023 （PMID：37891398 DOI：10.1038/s41583-023-00756-z）
Mototaka Suzuki, Matthew E Larkum
General Anesthesia Decouples Cortical Pyramidal Neurons Cell 180(4):666-676.e13 2020 （PMID：32084339 DOI：10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.024）
Mototaka Suzuki, Matthew E Larkum
Dendritic calcium spikes are clearly detectable at the cortical surface Nat. Commun. 8(1):276 2017 （PMID：28819259 DOI：10.1038/s41467-017-00282-4）
Mototaka Suzuki, Jacqueline Gottlieb
Distinct neural mechanisms of distractor suppression in the frontal and parietal lobe Nat. Neurosci. 16(1):98-104 2013 （PMID：23242309 DOI：10.1038/nn.3282）
Short Biography：
Mototaka Suzuki obtained his Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He then had postdoctoral training at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2021 to 2025 he was a Principal Investigator at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 2025 he was appointed as a full professor at The University of Osaka.
Announcements / News：
2025 IBRO Rising Stars Award
Lab Members：
Researcher
・Naoko Inaba