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 Akira Chiba
305.284.3510
akira.chiba@miami.edu
www.chibalab.org
Akira Chiba is a biology professor at the University of Miami. His main research area is molecular
neuroscience. Chiba's own science
has ‘evolved’ following his lab’s relocation from Illinois to Miami in
2007. In the ocean that surrounds
and on the islands at places not so far away, myriad exotic animals and
plants live together as dynamic networks. Having been trained in molecular imaging, however, Chiba’s ‘islands’
are the cells in our body. Collaborating molecular genetics and laser optics, his team is poised
to step into the ‘jungle’ of the molecules of life within the cells of the
brain. This is a new kind of ecology
played out at the scale of nanometers, creating a sense of Déjà vu eighty years after the birth
of modern ecology. Chiba received
PhD from SUNY Albany in 1990 and postdoctoral training at Yale University
and University of Tokyo. During the
past seventeen years, Chiba has trained twelve doctoral and nine
postdoctoral students in his laboratory. He also advised doctoral theses in mechanical engineering,
biophysics, biochemistry and computer science. As a principle investigator, Chiba has
directed projects funded by eleven separate grants from NIH and NSF. Chiba is a past recipient of HFSPO fellowship
and Markey Foundation neuroscience professorship, and is a fellow of
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Publications (selected from over 120 articles)
Chiba
A, Shepherd D, Murphey RK (1988) Synaptic
rearrangement during postembryonic development in the cricket. Science 240: 901-905.
Chiba
A, Snow P, Keshishian H, Hotta
Y (1995) Fasciclin III as a synaptic target
recognition molecule in Drosophila.
Nature 374:166-168.
Ritzenthaler S,
Suzuki E, Chiba A (2000) Postsynaptic filopodia
that interact with innervating motoneuron axons. Nature Neurosci
3:1012-1017.
Furrer
M-P, Kim S, Wolf B, Chiba A (2003) Frazzled and roundabout control
dendritic growth cone guidance. Nature
Neurosci 6:223-230.
Kamiyama D,
Chiba A (2009) Endogenous activation patterns of
Cdc42 GTPase within Drosophila embryos. Science
324:1338-1340.
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