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Hiroki Kawai

Kyoto UniversityORCID 0000-0002-7129-2384Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:deep learning· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Atsushi SugieiD· 1 shared Gaia TavosanisiD· 1 shared Hajime KomakiiD· 1 shared Hidenobu MizunoiD· 1 shared Hiroyuki HiokiiD· 1 shared Karolína Doubková· 1 shared Keita Chagi· 1 shared Kenichi OhkiiD· 1 shared

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Ultrastructurally planar growth cones during neocortical axon navigation

Yu Nakanishi, Masafumi Tsuboi, Hiroki Kawai, Koyo Shibayama, Kenta Yamauchi, Sasikarn Looprasertkul, KyungEun Lee, Hajime Komaki, Takamitsu Egashira, Shogo Suga, Tomonari Murakami, Kenichi Ohki, Hiroyuki Hioki, Nobuhiko Ohno, Hidenobu Mizuno, Yusuke Hirabayashi

The paper reconstructs growth cones of callosal projection neurons in the developing mouse brain and finds they have a planar, dorsoventrally oriented morphology with filopodia that precede accelerated axon growth.

bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of 2D Projection-Derived Overlapping Prospore Membrane in Yeast

Shodai Taguchi, Keita Chagi, Hiroki Kawai, Kenji Irie, Yasuyuki Suda

This paper develops DeMemSeg, a deep learning tool for segmenting overlapping prospore membranes in yeast from 2D MIP images, achieving performance comparable to manual annotation.

Cell Structure and Function · Jan 1, 2025Peer-reviewedCell Biology

A quantitative model of sporadic axonal degeneration in the Drosophila visual system

Mélisande Richard, Karolína Doubková, Yohei Nitta, Hiroki Kawai, Atsushi Sugie, Gaia Tavosanis

This paper develops a Drosophila model of axonal degeneration, showing that light exposure causes progressive degeneration without apoptosis, and that synaptic loss precedes degeneration, with postsynaptic signaling required to maintain axonal structure.

Journal of Neuroscience · May 9, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience