Invited talks

  1. Nakamura, K.
    "Brain circuit mechanisms for body temperature regulation and metabolic homeostasis"
    The Naito Conference "Frontiers in Physical and Mechanical Biology", October 1–4, 2024, Sapporo, Japan.
    (Invited speaker)
  2. Nakamura, K.
    "The dorsomedial hypothalamus: a psychological, thermal, and metabolic integrator for host defense and homeostasis"
    The 17th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society, September 26–29, 2024, Suzhou, China.
    (Invited speaker)
  3. Nakamura, K.
    "A central master controller for thermal homeostasis"
    APS Summit 2024, April 4–7, 2024, Long Beach, CA, USA.
    (Invited speaker)
  4. Nakamura, K.
    "Age-related ciliopathy: a mechanism of middle-aged obesity"
    The Cologne Aging Conference 2024, January 29–30, 2024, Cologne, Germany.
    (Invited speaker)
  5. Nakamura, K.
    "Central neural network to defend life from environmental stresses"
    The 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (KSBNS 2023), September 6–8, 2023, Busan, Korea.
    (Invited speaker)
  6. Nakamura, K., Nakamura, Y.
    "A central pivotal controller for thermal homeostasis and fever"
    15th meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, March 22-24, 2023, Göttingen, Germany.
    (Invited speaker)
  7. Oya, M., Nakamura, K.
    "Hypothalamic melanocortin mechanism of age-related reduction in metabolic thermogenesis"
    Congress of the International Society of Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN) 2022, September 5-7, 2022, Cairns, Australia.
    (Co-organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  8. Nakamura, K.
    "Central psychosomatic neural pathway driving stress responses"
    International Symposium "Integrative control of physiological responses by neuropeptides" at the 47th Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroendocrine Society, October 30–31, 2021, hybrid meeting hosted from Nara.
    (Invited speaker)
  9. Nakamura, K.
    "Mind-body connection: a master brain pathway for psychological stress responses"
    The 7th Neuroscience Network, February 10, 2021, online meeting hosted from Kobe University.
    (Invited speaker)
  10. Nakamura, K.
    "A central psychosomatic neural pathway that drives sympathetic and behavioral stress responses"
    virtual 8th International Conference on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation (vPPTR) 2020, October 26–29, 2020, online meeting hosted from North Vancouver, Canada.
    (Invited speaker)
  11. Nakamura, K.
    "Central neural mechanisms to defend life from environmental stressors"
    Visiting Fellows Lecture of the Institute of Advanced Studies at University of Bologna, November 22, 2019, Bologna, Italy.
    (Invited Lecturer)
  12. Nakamura, K.
    "Central circuit for physiological responses to psychological stress"
    Seminar in the Department of Physiology at University of Bologna, November 12, 2019, Bologna, Italy.
    (Invited Lecturer)
  13. Nakamura, K.
    "Mechanisms of psychological impacts on thermoregulation and metabolism"
    The 9th Federation of the Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies Congress (FAOPS2019)/The 96th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 28–31, 2019, Kobe, Japan.
    (Co-organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  14. Nakamura, K.
    "Thermosensory afferent neural pathways for autonomous and behavioral thermoregulation"
    7th International Meeting of the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation (PPTR2018), October 7–12, 2018, Split, Croatia.
    (Co-organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  15. Nakamura, K.
    "Central thermoregulatory circuits to defend homeostasis from environmental stressors"
    Mini-Symposium on Temperature and Metabolism, August 27, 2018, Shanghai, China.
    (Invited speaker)
  16. Nakamura, K.
    "Central circuit mechanisms of infection-induced and psychogenic fever: What's different?"
    The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, July 29, 2018, Kobe, Japan.
    (Invited speaker)
  17. Nakamura, K.
    "Central Neural Mechanisms to Defend Life from Environmental Stressors"
    Thermal Biology 2017 International Symposium, September 4, 2017, Kyoto, Japan.
    (Invited speaker)
  18. Nakamura, K.
    "Difference in central circuit mechanisms of infection-induced and psychogenic fever"
    International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN) 2017, August 30–September 2, 2017, Nagoya, Japan.
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  19. Nakamura, Y., Yanagawa, Y., Morrison S.F. & Nakamura, K.
    "Medullary reticular GABAergic neurons that mediate hunger responses induced by hypothalamic neuropeptide Y"
    Experimental Biology 2017, April 22–26, 2017, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
    ("Featured Topic" Speaker)
  20. Nakamura, K. & Kataoka, N.
    "Higher brain stress signalling that drives the hypothalamo-medullary pathway for stress-induced hyperthermia"
    6th International Conference on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation (PPTR2016), December 5–9, 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    (Invited speaker)
  21. Nakamura, K.
    "Central pathways for cold-induced thermogenesis"
    The Wenner-Gren Foundations International Symposium "Brown adipose tissue and euthermia", May 27, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.
    (Invited speaker)
  22. Nakamura, K.
    "Central hunger signaling that inhibits brown adipose tissue thermogenesis"
    Kyoto Conference of Young Lions in Obesity Research, October 5, 2015, Kyoto, Japan.
    (Chair/Invited speaker)
  23. Nakamura, K.
    "Cold-defense neural pathway drives stress-induced hyperthermia"
    International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN) 2015, September 26–29, 2015, Stresa, Italy.
    (Invited speaker)
  24. Nakamura, K.
    "Central regulation of body temperature"
    The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, September 13–15, 2015, Kanazawa, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  25. Nakamura, K. & Kataoka, N.
    "Central circuit mechanism of psychogenic fever"
    The 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience 2015), July 28–31, 2015, Kobe, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  26. Nakamura, K. & Kataoka, N.
    "Central circuit mechanism that drives stress-induced autonomic responses"
    The Joint Meeting of the 120th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists and the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 21–23, 2015, Kobe, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  27. Nakamura, K.
    "Central thermoregulatory system: a mechanism that defends life from various environmental stressors"
    Experimental Biology 2014, April 26–30, 2014, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
    (Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture)
  28. Nakamura, K.
    "Roles of the lateral parabrachial nucleus in body temperature regulation"
    The 91st Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 16–18, 2014, Kagoshima, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  29. Kataoka, N. & Nakamura, K.
    "A direct hypothalamo-medullary pathway for sociopsychological stress-induced brown fat thermogenesis and hyperthermia"
    The 91st Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 16–18, 2014, Kagoshima, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  30. Nakamura, K.
    "Neural pathways for psychogenic fever"
    Frontiers of Translational Research for Obesity and Life Style Diseases, November 30, 2013, Kyoto, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  31. Nakamura, K.
    "A thermosensory pathway mediating heat-defense response"
    The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, October 24–25, 2013, Nagoya, Japan
    (Lecture for 2013 Annual Award of Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research for the Best Articles)
  32. Nakamura, K.
    "Hypothalamus-medullary neural pathway that drives thermogenesis for fever and stress-induced hyperthermia"
    22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine, September 12–14, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
    (Chair/Invited speaker)
  33. Nakamura, K.
    "Sympathetic outflow for psychological stress-induced thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue"
    Experimental Biology 2013, April 20–24, 2013, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
    (Invited speaker at minisymposium "Central mechanisms of autonomic regulation during stress")
  34. Nakamura, K. & Kataoka, N.
    "Identification of thermogenesis-driving central mechanism by optogenetic activation of projection neurons that connect specific brain regions"
    The 90th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 27–29, 2013, Tokyo, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  35. Nakamura, K.
    "Central neural mechanism of autonomic thermoregulatory responses to changes in skin temperature"
    The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, October 25–26, 2012, Tokyo, Japan
    ("Topics" speaker)
  36. Nakamura, Y. & Nakamura, K.
    "Preoptic regulation of body temperature and fever"
    The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience 2012), September 18–21, 2012, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  37. Nakamura, K.
    "Central mechanisms for homeostatic thermal responses to a variety of environmental stresses"
    Summer School 2012 of Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, August 8–10, 2012, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
    (Invited lecturer)
  38. Nakamura, K.
    "Sympathetic premotor mechanism controlling brown adipose tissue thermogenesis"
    The 89th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, March 29–31, 2012, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  39. Nakamura, K.
    "Stress-induced hyperthermia"
    7th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience / 22nd Symposium of the American Autonomic Society (ISAN/AAS 2011), September 12–16, 2011, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    (Invited speaker)
  40. Nakamura, K.
    "Central control mechanism for brown adipose tissue thermogenesis"
    The 16th Adiposcience Symposium, August 20, 2011,Osaka, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  41. Nakamura, K.
    "Neural control of cold-induced BAT thermogenesis"
    Brown Adipose Tissue 2011 Update, June 18–19, 2011, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  42. Nakamura, K.
    "Approaches to understand central circuitry mechanisms of stress-induced autonomic symptoms"
    The Joint Meeting of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan & the 116th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists (Limited to communications in the J. Physiol. Sci. due to the Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake)
    (Organizer/Invited speaker)
  43. Nakamura, K.
    "Brain mechanisms to control body temperature in response to environmental stresses"
    28th Japan Endocrine Society (JES) Summer Seminar on Endocrinology & Metabolism, July 8–10, 2010, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  44. Nakamura, K. & Morrison, S.F.
    "Thermosensory mechanism to defend body temperature of mammals from environmental thermal challenges"
    The 87th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, May 19–21, 2010, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  45. Nakamura, K. & Morrison, S.F.
    "Central efferent pathways mediating shivering thermogenesis"
    Experimental Biology 2010, April 24–28, 2010, Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
    ("Featured Topic" Speaker)
  46. Nakamura, K.
    "Mechanism of body temperature regulation"
    The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, November 5–6, 2009, Wakayama, Japan
    (Invited lecturer)
  47. Nakamura, K. & Morrison, S.F.
    "Neural circuitry to defend body temperature from environmental thermal challenge"
    Autonomic Adjustments to Environmental Challenges–A Satellite Meeting of ISAN 2009, September 5–7, 2009, Newcastle, Australia
    (Invited speaker)
  48. Nakamura, K., Nakamura, Y. & Morrison, S.F.
    "The ways up and the ways down: dissecting neural pathways for thermoregulation"
    6th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN 2009) September 1–4, 2009, Sydney, Australia
    (Invited speaker)
  49. Nakamura, K.
    "Central mechanism of body temperature control"
    The 56th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, August 16–18, Kobe, Japan
    (Invited lecturer)
  50. Nakamura, K., Nakamura, Y. & Morrison, S.F.
    "Differential control of thermal effector pathways contributing to fever"
    36th International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS2009) / 86th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, July 27–August 1, 2009, Kyoto, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  51. Nakamura, K. & Morrison, S.F.
    "Thermosensory ascending pathways leading to body temperature control"
    The 3rd International Symposium on Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation, July 23–26, 2009, Matsue, Shimane, Japan
    (Organizer/Chair/Invited speaker)
  52. Nakamura, K. & Morrison, S.F.
    "A thermosensory pathway controlling sympathetic and shivering thermogenesis"
    5th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience, October 5–8, 2007, Kyoto, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  53. Nakamura, K.
    "Sympathetic efferent neuronal pathways for fever and thermoregulation"
    The 58th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, October 27–28, 2005, Chiba, Japan
    (Invited speaker)
  54. Nakamura, K., Matsumura, K., Hübschle, T., Wu, S.-X., Nakamura, Y., Gerstberger, R., Kobayashi, S. & Kaneko, T.
    "Sympathetic premotor neurons mediating febrile responses and thermoregulatory functions"
    The 35th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences / Experimental Biology 2005, March 31–April 5, 2005, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
    (Invited speaker)
  55. Nakamura, K.
    "Fever-inducing sympathetic neural pathways"
    First Integrated Symposium on the Physiology and Pharmacology of Thermal Biology and Temperature Regulation, October 10–15, 2004, Rhodes, Greece
    (Invited speaker)
  56. Nakamura, K.
    "Fever-mediating and thermoregulating sympathetic premotor neurons"
    FASEB Summer Research Conferences "Neural Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Regulation", July 24–29, 2004, Snowmass, CO, U.S.A.
    (Invited speaker)
  57. Nakamura, K.
    "The prostaglandin EP3 receptor-mediated central neural pathway for the regulation of the sympathetic system"
    The 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society, March 8–10, 2004, Osaka, Japan
    (Invited speaker)

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