Profile
- Hometown
- Made in Japan; proud product of Osaka
- Hobbies
- Watching NBA games; (formerly) weight training
- Current obsession
- Perfecting homemade tacos
- What I enjoy in research life
- Developing new ideas from my own discoveries and designing approaches that lead to unexpected findings.
E-mail
nishio.soichiro.44ast.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Education ･ Appointments
- Mar 2005
- Graduated from Senko Kindergarten
- Mar 2011
- Graduated from Kenmei Gakuin Elementary School
- Mar 2014
- Graduated from Todaiji Gakuen Junior High School
- Mar 2017
- Graduated from Todaiji Gakuen High School
- Mar 2022
- B.S., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
- Nov 2022 – Jan 2023
- Visiting Student, David Baker Laboratory, University of Washington
- Mar 2024
- M.S., Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Awards
- 2025
- Best Poster Award, Asian Chemical Biology Conference 2025, Hong Kong
- 2024
- Young Investigator Oral Presentation Award, The 61st Peptide Symposium, Japan
- 2024
- Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, The 56th Young Peptide Researchers’ Summer Workshop
- 2023
- Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, The 55th Young Peptide Researchers’ Summer Workshop
Publications ･ Achievements
- "Post-translational backbone-acyl shift yields natural product-like peptides bearing hydroxyhydrocarbon units"
- T. Kuroda; Y. Huang; S. Nishio; Y. Goto; H. Suga
- Nat. Chem., 14, 1413–1420 (2022)
