{"id":33855,"date":"2025-04-03T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/?p=33855"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:30:22","slug":"arrival-greeting-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/arrival-greeting-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturer MACPHERSON has arrived. (the Department of Systems Biology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33845 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2Q1A3748-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/>My name is Tom Macpherson, a newly appointed lecturer in the field of Systems Biology since April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from my Ph.D. in Neuroscience at University of Sussex, UK in 2014, I moved to Kyoto University as a Postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate School of Medicine. In 2017, I joined Osaka University as an assistant professor in the Institute for Protein Research. In April 2025, I returned to Kyoto University to join the Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) as a Lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>My speciality is in the field of Neuroscience, where I research neural circuits controlling learning and decision-making. Specifically, my work incorporates cutting-edge brain imaging, optogenetics, and artificial intelligence behavioral analyses in mice to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying reward and aversion learning, social behavior, and adaptive decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond research, I am excited to be teaching on several ILAS courses, including <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Theory and Practice in Scientific Writing and Discussion, Basic Biology and Metabolism, Introduction to Biosciences, and Introduction to Molecular Cell Biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tom Macpherson, a newly appointed lecturer in the field of Systems Biology since April 2025. After  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34041,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions\/34041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}