Hachisuka lab
Keywords: pain, itch, spinal cord, neural circuits, calcium imaging
My name is Junichi Hachisuka and I am a Senior Lecturer here in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. My lab works on the spinal cord mechanisms of pain and itch, using mouse models.
Biography
I graduated in medicine from the Nagoya University School of Medicine in 2002. After 3 years of clinical training in dermatology, I entered graduate school at Kyushu University, studying theitch mechanism of primary afferents. Then I returned to clinical practice of dermatology, especially skin cancer treatment and surgery. From 2012 I returned to research and worked as a post doc at University of Pittsburgh with Sarah Ross studying itch mechanisms in the spinal cord. There, I developed a new preparation that allows recording the spinal sensory neuron's activity in response to natural stimulation to the skin. In 2019 I took up my position here at Glasgow.