Naoshige Uchida

Naoshige Uchida is a graduate of Masatoshi Takeichi's lab of the Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan where he was since 1997. Later on, he joined Kensaku Mori's lab at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and then worked at Zachary Mainen's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

In 1996 Naoshige Uchida along with Yasuko Honjo, Keith R Johnson, Margaret J Wheelock, Masatoshi Takeichi had an experiment with mouse and chick brains and discovered that proteins that are associated with cadherin and beta-catenin are very common in adult brains. In 2003 he and Zachary Mainen had used rats for odor discrimination training for such odors as hexanol and valeric acid and discovered that it takes one sniff for those animals to realize which one is which. In 2014 he focused his research on olfactory bulb and piriform cortex, two neural circuits which are responsible for conveying of odor information. In 2015 Naoshige Uchida along with Jeremiah Y Cohen and Mackenzie W Amoroso have studied serotonin in mice and discovered that reward and punishment play critical roles in the occurrence of dorsal raphe neurons.