Kazuki Kurimoto

This study shows that disrupting developmental myelination in the medial prefrontal cortex impairs adult social behavior and PV interneuron function in mice, with parallels in human schizophrenia.

The paper shows that an ancestral LTR retrotransposon insertion in the common ancestor of Euarchontoglires drives lineage-specific genomic imprinting of ZDBF2 through post-fertilization transcription initiation.

The paper develops DRaqL, a method for efficient single-cell RNA-seq from fixed tissue sections, revealing transcriptomic heterogeneity in ovarian folliculogenesis.

The paper identifies imprinted genes in rat tissues, finds conservation of canonical imprints in embryos but divergence in extra-embryonic tissues, and discovers novel non-canonical imprints.