Taro Kitazawa

The paper develops ChromTRAP to identify recently activated neuronal ensembles and reveals brain-region- and cell-type-specific regulatory programs during learning.

The paper introduces HisTrac-seq to track cell identity transitions over time using single-cell multi-omics, revealing large-scale 'identity jumps' in mouse brain cells.

This study shows that Kdm7a regulates posterior Hox gene expression in mouse embryos by demethylating H3K9me2, leading to anterior-posterior developmental defects.

The paper investigates the role of Dlx5/6 in cranial neural crest cells in determining jaw identity and symmetry, showing that their expression in NCCs is critical for lower jaw development and jaw matching.