Basic Information

Faculty

• Faculty of Science

Email Address

• Email Address

  hirai.himawari.3hkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 22 Mar. 2025

  同志社大学博士（理学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 同志社大学, 生命医科学部医生命システム学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science Division of Biological Sciences, 助教
• From Apr. 2024, To Mar. 2025

  日本学術振興会特別研究員(DC2)

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  202501007138362733

• Researcher number

  91020270

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/himawarihirai

Research

Research Interests

• 神経科学

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Neuroscience - general

Papers

• Distinct release properties of glutamate/GABA co-transmission serve as a frequency-dependent filtering of supramammillary inputs.

  Himawari Hirai; Kohtarou Konno; Miwako Yamasaki; Masahiko Watanabe; Takeshi Sakaba; Yuki Hashimotodani

  eLife, 16 Dec. 2024

  
• Increased vesicle fusion competence underlies long-term potentiation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses.

  Ryota Fukaya; Himawari Hirai; Hirokazu Sakamoto; Yuki Hashimotodani; Kenzo Hirose; Takeshi Sakaba

  Science advances, 22 Feb. 2023

  
• Mechanistic insights into cAMP-mediated presynaptic potentiation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses.

  Ryota Fukaya; Rinako Miyano; Himawari Hirai; Takeshi Sakaba

  Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2023

  
• Subcortical glutamatergic inputs exhibit a Hebbian form of long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus.

  Himawari Hirai; Takeshi Sakaba; Yuki Hashimotodani

  Cell reports, 27 Dec. 2022

  

Presentations

• The mechanisms of glutamate/GABA co-release at supramammillary nucleus-dentate granule cell synapses.

  平井向日葵

  第102回日本生理学会大会, 17 Mar. 2025

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• 伝達物質が規定するシナプス前放出機構の軸索終末からの直接記録を駆使した分子解剖

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 46010:Neuroscience-general-related

  Kyoto University

  平井 向日葵

  From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  小脳プルキンエ細胞;軸索終末;神経伝達物質;シナプス小胞

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-26K18403/

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IID

  9044, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIC

  9043, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IC

  9039, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IB

  9038, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IA

  9037, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIB

  9042, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIA

  9041, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminar on Neurobiology ID

  9040, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Special Study CourseII(Biological Sciences) 19

  8722, Year-long, Faculty of Science, 12
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Advanced Course on Biological Science B

  9012, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Seminars in Biological Science A

  4730, Fall, Faculty of Science, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Laboratory work in Biological Science D

  3765, Fall, Faculty of Science, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Fundamental Experiments of Cellular and Molecular Biology

  2729, Fall, Faculty of Science, 4
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Special Study CourseII(Biological Sciences) 19

  8722, Year-long, Faculty of Science, 12
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IC

  9039, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IB

  9038, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IA

  9037, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology ID

  9040, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIC

  9043, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIB

  9042, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IIA

  9041, Spring, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminar on Neurobiology IID

  9044, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 1
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Advanced Course on Biological Science B

  9012, Fall, Graduate School of Science, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Seminars in Biological Science A

  4730, Fall, Faculty of Science, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  Laboratory work in Biological Science D

  3765, Fall, Faculty of Science, 2

Administration

Faculty management (title, position)

• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  理学研究科　図書・出版委員会委員
• From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026

  理学研究科　図書・出版委員会委員