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Special Postdoctoral Researcher Shintaroh Kubo

EDUCATION

2020 Ph.D. Ph.D. in Science, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2017 M.S. Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2015 B.S. Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Apr. 2025 – Present Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR), RIKEN (Sugita Lab)
Apr. 2024 – Present Project Researcher, Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Noji Lab)
Apr. 2021 – Mar. 2024 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD), Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo (Okada Lab)
Apr. 2020 – Mar. 2021 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (Bui Lab, McGill University)
Apr. 2019 – Sep. 2019 Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers (Bui Lab, McGill University)

ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

  1. Biophysical Society of Japan
  2. The Protein Science Society of Japan
  3. Biophysical Society (USA)

RESERACH TOPICS

  1. Elucidation of molecular motor mechanisms and high-performance design
  2. Cryo-EM modeling of microtubule-associated proteins

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Theoretical insights into rotary mechanism of MotAB in the bacterial flagellar motor Shintaroh Kubo, Yasushi Okada, Shoji Takada Biophysical Journal, 123(20), 3587–3599 (2024)
  2. Native doublet microtubules from Tetrahymena thermophila reveal the importance of outer junction proteins. Shintaroh Kubo, Corbin S Black, Ewa Joachimiak, Shun Kai Yang, Thibault Legal, Katya Peri, Ahmad Abdelzaher Zaki Khalifa, Avrin Ghanaeian, Caitlyn L McCafferty, Melissa Valente-Paterno, Chelsea De Bellis, Phuong M Huynh, Zhe Fan, Edward M Marcotte, Dorota Wloga, Khanh Huy Bui Nature Communications, 14(1), 2168 (2023)
  3. Molecular dynamics simulation of proton-transfer coupled rotations in ATP synthase FO motor Shintaroh Kubo, Toru Niina, Shoji Takada Scientific Reports, 10(1) (2020)
  4. Allosteric conformational change cascade in cytoplasmic dynein revealed by structure-based molecular simulations Shintaroh Kubo, Wenfei Li, Shoji Takada PLOS Computational Biology, 13(9), e1005748 (2017)