Organization (until March 2010)
Current organization is here.
General Management Group
| Coordinators |
| Name |
Affiliation |
Position |
| TERAZIMA, Masahide |
Project Leader |
Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto Unviersity |
| KATAOKA, Mikio |
Secretary General |
Professor, Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| Advisers |
| Name |
Position |
| KITAGAWA, Teizo |
Fellow, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Inst. |
| NAKAHARA, Masaru |
Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University |
| SAKAKI, Shigeyoshi |
Professor, Graduate School of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University |
| MILLER, R. J. Dwayne |
Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto |
Project Research Members
>> Research Field (A01) Director: Masahide Terazima, "Detection of fluctuation"
| Name |
Affiliation and Position |
Research title |
| TERAZIMA, Masahide |
Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University |
Development of time-resolved methods for detections of energy and structural fluctuations, and revealing relationship between fluctuation and reaction mechanism |
| KATO, Koichi |
Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Biosceince, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
NMR detection of conformational fluctuations of proteins and glycoconjugates for exploration of their correlations with biological functions |
| OKAMOTO, Yuko |
Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University |
Development of molecular simulation algorithms for enhancing structural fluctuations and for accurate free-energy calculations |
| The open-type researchers |
| ISHII, Kunihiko |
RIKEN |
Study of ultrafast fluctuations of biopolymers by label-free fluorescence correlation spectroscopy |
| ISHIMORI, Koichiro |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Quantitative analysis of the structural fluctuation in protein studied with florescence spectroscopy under high pressure |
| KAMIYAMA, Tadashi |
Kinki Univ. |
Isothermal and Adiabatic Compressibility of Protein |
| KAWAKAMI, Masaru |
JAIST |
Detection of protein fluctuation by mechanical unfolding experiments with AFM and relevance of the thermal fluctuation to biological function |
| KITAHARA, Ryo |
Ritsumeikan Univ. |
High pressure NMR study of protein dynamics |
| KIDERA, Akinori |
Yokohama City Univ. |
Fluctuations in protein side-chains and their responses upon ligand binding |
| GOTO, Yuji |
Osaka Univ. |
Structure and fluctuation of the intermediates of amyloid fibril formation |
| SATO, Hirofumi |
Kyoto Univ. |
Understanding of fluctuation and hydration based on integral equation theory |
| SUGASE, Kenji |
SUNBOR |
Elucidation of the DNA recognition mechanism of a pluripotency-inducing factor Oct3/4 by relaxation dispersion spectroscopy |
| TAKADA, Shoji |
Kyoto Univ. |
heoretical study of rare and large-amplitude fluctuation of proteins: Search for cracking |
| TAKAHASHI, Satoshi |
Tohoku Univ. |
Elucidation of the translational motions of biological macromolecules and their coupling to the internal conformational dynamics |
| YAMAGUCHI, Mariko |
NAIST |
Fluctuation of local structures in proteins |
| YAMAMURA, Yasuhisa |
Univ. of Tsukuba |
Thermodynamic approach to detection of fluctuation of lipid bilayer |
>> Research Field (A02) Director: Mikio Kataoka, "Regulation of fluctuation"
| Name |
Affiliation and Position |
Research title |
| KATAOKA, Mikio |
Professor, Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Development of model systems for intrinsically disordered protein and understanding of the role of fluctuation on molecular recognition and folding |
| HOHSAKA, Takahiro |
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
Study of protein fluctuations by introducing nonnatural amino acids |
| The open-type researchers |
| ARAI, Munehito |
AIST |
Controlling fluctuation of a protein using the database of comprehensive amino acid substitutions |
| IMANISHI, Miki |
Kyoto Univ. |
Effects of fluctuations of DNA binding proteins on their sequence-specificities |
| KURODA, Yutaka |
TUAT |
Design and analysis of protein backbone fluctuations introduced by a single or a small number of mutations |
| TATE, Shin-ichi |
Hiroshima Univ. |
Regulation of active site structural fluctuation in protein by loop mutation |
| MIZUGUCHI, Mineyuki |
Univ. of Toyama |
Fluctuation and function of the new-type of intrinsically unstructured protein |
| YUASA, Junpei |
NAIST |
Detection of relaxation processes in fluctuation of photoreceptor proteins |
>> Research Field (A03) Director: Ryuichi Ueoka, "Fluctuation toward function"
| Name |
Affiliation and Position |
Research title |
| UEOKA, Ryuichi |
Professor, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University |
Antitumor mechanism in molecular model with relation to fluctuation of tumor cell membranes and liposomes |
| KUWAJIMA, Kunihiro |
Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Biosceince, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
Structural fluctuations and folding-mediating functions of the chaperonin |
| HIRATA, Fumio |
Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
Theoretical Study on Conjugated Dynamics of Protein and Solvent |
| The open-type researchers |
| IINO, Ryota |
Osaka Univ. |
Development of an ultra-high speed optical microscope for the investigation of correlation between the conformational fluctuation and the performance of motor proteins |
| IDE, Toru |
Osaka Univ. |
Structure-activity relationship study of ion-channel proteins by single-molecule analyses |
| OIKI, Shigetoshi |
Univ. of Fukui |
Single-molecular studies for structural and functional fluctuation of KcsA potassium channel |
| OKADA, Seiji |
Kumamoto Univ. |
Membrane Fluctuation and hematopoietic system. (Normal and malignant) |
| OKAMURA, Emiko |
Himeji Dokkyo Univ. |
Multinuclear dynamic NMR of drug transport relating to the fluctuation of biomembranes |
| KURODA, Reiko |
The Univ. of Tokyo |
The molecular dynamics of proteins related to amyloidosis |
| SUZUKI, Kentaro |
The Univ. of Tokyo |
Spontaneous Rewinding Dynamics of Helical Self-assemblies of Oleic Acid on the Basis of Microscopic Fluctuation of Molecular Dynamics |
| SUZUKI, Motoshi |
Nagoya Univ. |
A bidirectional research toward understanding the relationship between genetic fluctuation and lung cancer |
| TERO, Ryugo |
IMS |
Structure and properties of lipid bilayer membrane at the transient state of phase separation |
| DEWA, Takehisa |
NIT |
Functional analysis of polyamine-lipid/nucleic acid complex (Lipoplex) as gene carrier: Relationship between metamorphosis of lipoplex and its function |
| TOTANI, Kiichiro |
Seikei Univ. |
Effects of biomimetic artificial fluctuation environments on enzymatic reactions |
| MATSUSHITA, Taku |
Sojo Univ. |
Study on G-quadruplex fluctuations and functions of telomeric DNA |
| YANO, Yoshiaki |
Kyoto Univ. |
Fluctuation analysis of fundamental processes for membrane protein folding by single molecule fluorescence microscopy |
| YOSHIDA, Norio |
IMS |
Theoretical study of the electronic conductance in wet-DNA and effects of structural fluctuation |
| YONETANI, Yoshiteru |
JAEA |
Role of the structural fluctuation of DNA binding proteins in the DNA sequence recognition |
Collaborators
| Name |
Affiliation and Position |
Research title |
| HAMADA, Daizo |
Kobe Univ. |
Fluctuation of biomolecules associated with cytotoxicity of amyloidogenic proteins |
| MAJIMA, Tetsuro |
Osaka Univ. |
Charge Transfer in DNA |
| YANO, Yohko F. |
Ritsumeikan Univ. |
Development of X-ray reflection system for investigating the structural fluctuation at interfaces and understanding of the interaction between a protein and an interface |
| Shun Hirota |
NAIST |
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