News2007-2011

2011

2011/11/24Publication
The paper on quinol-dependent nitric oxide reductase has been published in Nature Struct. Mol. Biol.
2011/11/16Publication
The paper on structural diversity of N-glycans in solution has been published in Biophysical Journal (Letter).
2011/09/08Publication
The paper on structural of MgFx compound in solution has been published in J. Phys. Chem. B.
2011/06/30Publication
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).
2011/04/18People
Ms. Kayo Yamaji (Assistant) have joined in our group.
2011/04/16People
Ms. Wakayo Taira (Assistant) have joined in our group.
2011/04/01People
Dr. Chigusa Kobayashi (Contract Researcher) and Dr. Wataru Nishima (Postdoctral Researcher) have joined in our group.
2011/04/01People
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).
2011/04/01People
Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation (Team Leader Yuji Sugita /Additional Post), Computational Biology Research Core, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) officially opened.
2011/03/31People
Ms. Mai Usui (Assistant) resigned from our group.
2011/03/28Position
Position opend for the Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher (FPR) program in RIKEN (Deadline: 2011/5/20)
2011/01/10People
Prof. Michael Feig (Michigan State University) join our group as a sabbatical visitor. (left on Mar. 23)
2011/01/06People
Prof. Cheol Ho Choi (Kyungpook National University) join our group as a visiging professor. (left on Feb. 1st)
2011/01/01People
Dr. Mori moved to RIKEN QBiC (Kobe).

2010

2010/10/29Publication
The paper on the relationship between Ca2+-affinity and shielding of bulk water in
the Ca2+-pump has been published in PNAS.
2010/10/21Position
Position opend for the Junior Research Associate (JRA) program in RIKEN. (closed)
2010/10/19Publication
The paper on the structural prediction of helical membrane proteins has been published in BMS Bioinformatics.
2010/10/01People
Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita holds an additional post of the team leader of RIKEN AICS.
2010/10/01People
Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita holds an additional post of the team leader of RIKEN QBiC.
2010/09/17Award
Dr. Takashi Imai won the poster prize in CBI annual meeting 2010.
2010/09/13Award
Dr. Takashi Imai has been honored by encouragement award of the Japan Association of Solution Chemistry.
2010/06/24Publication
The paper on the folding simulations of villin headpiece subdomain in explicit solvent has been published in Biophys. J.
2010/06/04Publication
The paper on the transition state structure for reversible phosphorylation reactions has been published in J.Comp.Chem.
2010/04/01Position
Call for applications of Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers. (deadline: May 28)
2010/03/19Award
Dr. Fumiko Ogushi won the poster award in 2nd Biosupercomputing symposium
2010/03/12Award
Dr. Takashi Imai won the Research/Technology Encouragement Prize in RIKEN.
2010/02/02Publication
The paper on MP2 gradient in the generalized hybrid orbital QM/MM method has been published in J.Chem.Phys.
2010/01/25Publication
The paper on Pressure-Induced Protein Structural Transition and Water Penetration has been published in J.Phys.Chem.B.
2010/01/07Publication
The paper on the conformational changes of Sec translocon has been published in Biochemistry.

2009

2009/12/01People
Dr. Pai-Chi Li has joined in our group.
2009/12/01Award
Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita won the 2009 Award of the Molecular Simulation Society of Japan.
2009/09/07Publication
The paper on the phosphoryl transfer reaction catalyzed by phosphoserine phosphatase has been published in Chem.Phys.Lett.
2009/08/31Award
Assoc. chief scientist Dr. Yuji Sugita has been honored by Morino foundation encouragement award for promoting fundamental researches of molecular science.
2009/06/11Position
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).
2009/04/24Position
Call for Applications for Special Postdoctoral Researchers and Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers.
(deadline:May 29,2009)
2009/04/20People
Dr. Andrei Pisliakov join our group as FPR.
2009/03/18Publication
The paper on the transmembrane structures of APP dimer has been published in JACS (Communication).

2008

2008/11/20Position
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).
2008/10/16Publication
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.
2008/10/02Publication
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.