MOTOTAKA SUZUKI, Ph.D.

PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE

PART-TIME AFFILIATION

Department of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
Faculty of Science | University of Amsterdam

PRIMARY AFFILIATION

Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience
Osaka University

News



A new preprint "A computational architecture incorporating shallow brain networks: integrating parallel cortical and subcortical processing" in bioRxiv.

On April 1, 2025, I'm starting a new laboratory at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. If you're interested in joining my laboratory, please contact me.

Our new paper reporting that serotonin reduces cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus has recently been published.

A research grant awarded from Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement, Nagoya, Japan.

An invited talk in the Online Workshop of Crossmodal Learning on December 5, 2024.

ENW-M1 grant (€371K) awarded from Dutch Research Council. A big thanks to 3 anonymous reviewers. Press Release

I was a symposiums chair in the conference "Thalamocortical networks", May 16-17, San Sebastián, the Basque Country. The conference took place at The Miramar Palace next to the beautiful beach.

Contact info



Education



Select publications



Lee, K., Baracco, L., Pennartz, C.M.A., Suzuki, M.* & Mejias, J.F.* (2025) A computational architecture incorporating shallow brain networks: integrating parallel cortical and subcortical processing. bioRxiv 2025.02.24.639932. DOI *co-senior authors NEW

Araragi, N., Petermann, M., Suzuki, M., and Larkum, M.E., Mosienko, V., Bader, M., Alenina, N., & Klempin, F. (2025) Acute optogenetic stimulation of serotonin neurons reduces cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of mice. ACS Chemical Neuroscience DOI NEW

Suzuki, M., Pennartz, C.M.A. & Aru, J. (2023) How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 24:778-791. DOI

Press release from SILS: WWW & AmsterdamAI

Sohn, J., Suzuki, M., Youssef, M., Hatada, S., Larkum, M.E., Kawaguchi, Y. & Kubota, Y. (2022) Presynaptic supervision of cortical spine dynamics in motor learning. Science Advances 8(30):eabm0531. DOI

Press release from NIPS: WWW
Media coverage: covered by 3 outlets including AAAS, MyNavi News

Suzuki, M., Aru, J. & Larkum, M.E. (2021) Double-µPeriscope, a tool for multi-layer optical recordings, optogenetic stimulations or both. eLife 10:e72894. DOI

Preprint in bioRχiv 2021.06.28.450155. DOI

Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2020) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. Cell 180(4):666-676. DOI

Recommended in Faculty Opinions. DOI
Invited commentary article in Japanese (ISBN 978-4-7581-2536-9)

Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2017) Dendritic calcium spikes are clearly detectable at the cortical surface. Nature Communications 8(1):276. DOI

Selected for Nature Index that tracks top papers.

Suzuki, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2013) Distinct neural mechanisms of distractor suppression in the frontal and parietal lobe. Nature Neuroscience 16(1):98-104. DOI

Featured in "News & Views" of Nature Neuroscience. DOI

AWARDS & GRANTS



2024-2026 Research Grant, Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement, Nagoya, Japan. NEW

2025-2028 ENW-M1 Grant, Dutch Research Council, Hague, Netherlands. Press Release

2025-2027 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, New York, USA.

2024-2030 Starter Grant, Dutch Research Council, Hague, Netherlands.

2024-2027 Grant for the Promotion of Joint International Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.

2022-2023 Research Grant, Sumitomo Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.

2022-2023 Research Grant, Brain Science Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.

2021-2022 Research Grant, Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology, Hamamatsu, Japan.

2013-2015 International Incoming Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Commission.

2009-2011Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program Organization, Strasbourg, France.

2008-2009Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland.

2005-2006Takeshi Iizuka Memorial Scholarship, Takeshi Iizuka Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Tochigi, Japan.

2004-2005PhD Student Fellowship, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2002 Waseda University Student Cultural Award, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

2002 Excellent Paper Award, The Daily Industrial News, Tokyo, Japan.

2002 Takahiro Miyashita Memorial Award, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

2001 Paper Award, NIKKEI Science: Scientific American Japanese Edition, Tokyo, Japan.