News2007-2011

The paper on quinol-dependent nitric oxide reductase has been published in Nature Struct. Mol. Biol.

The paper on structural diversity of N-glycans in solution has been published in Biophysical Journal (Letter).

The paper on structural of MgFx compound in solution has been published in J. Phys. Chem. B.

The paper on drug efflux mechanism of multidrug transporter, ACRB has been published in J. Phys. Chem. B (selected as the cover of the issue).

Ms. Kayo Yamaji (Assistant) have joined in our group.

Ms. Wakayo Taira (Assistant) have joined in our group.

Dr. Chigusa Kobayashi (Contract Researcher) and Dr. Wataru Nishima (Postdoctral Researcher) have joined in our group.

Dr. Takashi Imai (Senior Scientist) and Dr. Naoyuki Miyashita (Research Scientist) moved to the Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation in Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC, Kobe).

Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation (Team Leader Yuji Sugita /Additional Post), Computational Biology Research Core, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) officially opened.

Ms. Mai Usui (Assistant) resigned from our group.

Position opend for the Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher (FPR) program in RIKEN (Deadline: 2011/5/20）

Prof. Michael Feig (Michigan State University) join our group as a sabbatical visitor. (left on Mar. 23)

Prof. Cheol Ho Choi (Kyungpook National University) join our group as a visiging professor. (left on Feb. 1st)

Dr. Mori moved to RIKEN QBiC (Kobe).

The paper on the relationship between Ca²⁺-affinity and shielding of bulk water in
the Ca²⁺-pump has been published in PNAS.

Position opend for the Junior Research Associate (JRA) program in RIKEN. (closed)

The paper on the structural prediction of helical membrane proteins has been published in BMS Bioinformatics.

Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita holds an additional post of the team leader of RIKEN AICS.

Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita holds an additional post of the team leader of RIKEN QBiC.

Dr. Takashi Imai won the poster prize in CBI annual meeting 2010.

Dr. Takashi Imai has been honored by encouragement award of the Japan Association of Solution Chemistry.

The paper on the folding simulations of villin headpiece subdomain in explicit solvent has been published in Biophys. J.

The paper on the transition state structure for reversible phosphorylation reactions has been published in J.Comp.Chem.

Call for applications of Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers. (deadline: May 28)

Dr. Fumiko Ogushi won the poster award in 2nd Biosupercomputing symposium

Dr. Takashi Imai won the Research/Technology Encouragement Prize in RIKEN.

The paper on MP2 gradient in the generalized hybrid orbital QM/MM method has been published in J.Chem.Phys.

The paper on Pressure-Induced Protein Structural Transition and Water Penetration has been published in J.Phys.Chem.B.

The paper on the conformational changes of Sec translocon has been published in Biochemistry.

Dr. Pai-Chi Li has joined in our group.

Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita won the 2009 Award of the Molecular Simulation Society of Japan.

The paper on the phosphoryl transfer reaction catalyzed by phosphoserine phosphatase has been published in Chem.Phys.Lett.

Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita has been honored by Morino foundation encouragement award for promoting fundamental researches of molecular science.

We have openings for Post-doctoral associates in our research group in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry and biophysics (see the web page).

Call for Applications for Special Postdoctoral Researchers and Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers.
(deadline:May 29,2009)

Dr. Andrei Pisliakov join our group as FPR.

The paper on the transmembrane structures of APP dimer has been published in JACS (Communication).

We have openings for Post-doctoral associates in our research group in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry and biophysics (see the web page).

The paper on the structure of SecYE translocon has been published in Nature. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Nureki’s group in the University of Tokyo and Prof. Mori’s group in Kyoto University.

The paper on the MD simulation of MgtE has been published in PNAS. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ishitani in the University of Tokyo.