Rate My Professor Yuji Nishiike

Yuji Nishiike has been affiliated with the Department of Aquatic Bioscience in the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at The University of Tokyo. He earned a B.S. from The University of Tokyo in March 2019. As a graduate student, he conducted research under the supervision of Professor Kataaki Okubo, focusing on topics in fish endocrinology and behavior using medaka as a model organism.

His research contributions include co-authorship on publications examining neuropeptide B mediation of female sexual receptivity in medaka, estrogen receptor 2b as a determinant of sex-typical mating behavior and sexual preference in medaka, the role of brain-derived estrogens in facilitating male-typical behaviors, the decision of male medaka to mate or fight depending on complementary androgen signaling pathways, and the identification of FSH-RH as a gonadotropin-releasing hormone. He has also received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for research at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, where he serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow.