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Joseph Takahashi, PhD
Endowed Title: Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Office Phone: 214-648-1800
Office Fax: 214-648-1801
Biography
Joseph Takahashi is Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UT Southwestern. He currently holds the Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience. Before moving to UT Southwestern, Dr. Takahashi was the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor in the Life Sciences at Northwestern University. During his 26-year tenure at Northwestern, he held appointments as professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology on the Evanston campus and professor in the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Medical School. In addition, he was also the director of the Center for Functional Genomics.
Dr. Takahashi received a BA in biology from Swarthmore College in 1974 and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1981. For postdoctoral training, he was a pharmacology research associate at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1981-1983.
Dr. Takahashi has pioneered the use of forward genetics and positional cloning in the mouse as a tool for discovery of genes underlying neurobiology and behavior, and his discovery of the mouse and human clock genes led to a description of a conserved circadian clock mechanism in animals.
He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and the recipient of many awards including the Honma Prize in Biological Rhythms Research, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Searle Scholars Award, Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Neuroscience, and the C. U. Ariens Kappers Medal. He received the W. Alden Spencer Award in Neuroscience from Columbia University in 2001, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Dr. Takahashi has served on a number of advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health, as well as scientific advisory boards for Eli Lilly and Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb Neuroscience Committee, the Genomics Research Institute for the Novartis Foundation, the Klingenstein Fund, the Searle Scholars Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, and the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation. He was also a co-founder of Hypnion, Inc., a biotech discovery company in Worcester, Mass., that investigated sleep/wake neurobiology and pharmaceuticals (now owned by Eli Lilly and Co.).
He is on the Editorial Boards for PNAS, PLoS Genetics, Curr Opin Neurobiol, J Biol Rhythms, and Genes, Brain and Behavior. He is currently the President of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms.
Education
| Graduate School | University of Oregon, Biology (1981) |
| Undergraduate | Swarthmore College, Biology (1974) |
Research Interests
Publications
Yoo, S.-H., S. Yamazaki, P.L. Lowrey, K. Shimomura, C.H. Ko, E.D. Buhr, S.M. Siepka, H.-K. Hong, W.-J. Oh, O.-J. Yoo, M. Menaker and J.S. Takahashi , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA , 2004; (101:5339-5346):7
Lowrey, P.L., K. Shimomura, M.P. Antoch, S. Yamazaki, P.D. Zemenides, M.R. Ralph, M. Menaker and J.S. Takahashi. , Science , 2000; (288:483-491):8
King, D.P., Y. Zhao, A.M. Sangoram, L.D. Wilsbacher, M. Tanaka, M.P. Antoch, T.D.L. Steeves, M.H. Vitaterna, J.M. Kornhauser, P.L. Lowrey, F.W. Turek and J.S. Takahashi. , Cell , 1997; (89:641-653.):12
Antoch, M.P., E.-J. Song, A.-M. Chang, M.H. Vitaterna, Y. Zhao, L.D. Wilsbacher, A.M. Sangoram, D.P. King, L.H. Pinto and J.S. Takahashi. , Cell , 1997; (89:655-667.):12
Vitaterna, M.H., D.P. King, A.-M. Chang, J.M. Kornhauser, P.L. Lowrey, J.D. McDonald, W.F. Dove, L.H. Pinto, F.W. Turek and J.S. Takahashi. , Science , 1994; (264:719-725):6
Takahashi, J.S., K. Shimomura and V. Kumar , Science , 2008; (322:909-912):3
Takahashi, J.S., H.-K. Hong, C.H. Ko and E.L. McDearmon , Nature Reviews Genetics , 2008; (9:764-775):11
Siepka, S.M., S.-H. Yoo, J. Park, W. Song, V. Kumar, Y. Hu, C. Lee and J.S. Takahashi , Cell , 2007; (129:1011-1023):12
McDearmon, E.L., K.N. Patel, C.H. Ko, J.A. Walisser, A.C. Schook, J.L. Chong, L.D. Wilsbacher, E-J Song, H-K Hong, C.A. Bradfield and J.S. Takahashi , Science , 2006; (314:1304-1308):4
Liu, A.C. D.K. Welsh, C.H. Ko, H.G. Tran, E.E. Zhang, A.A. Priest, E.D. Buhr, O. Singer, K. Meeker, I.M. Verma, F.J. Doyle, J.S. Takahashi and S.A Kay , Cell , 2005; (129:605-616):11
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Honors/Awards
Member (2003)
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (2001)
Fellow (2000)
Netherlands Society for the Advancement of Natural Sciences, Medicine and Surgery (1995)
Honma Foundation of Life Sciences (1986)