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Researcher's Profile

  • Associate Professor
  • Keitaro YAMASHITA
  • Structural Biology
E-mail
keitaro-yamashitag.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel
03-5452-5351

Biography

June 2013 PhD, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University
July 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Spring-8 Center
April 2015 Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Spring-8 Center
April 2018 Project Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
January 2019 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, UTokyo
June 2020 Postdoctoral Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
October 2023 Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo

Research Interests

Using brilliant X-ray or electron cryo-microscopy, we can determine the structures of biological macromolecules at near-atomic resolutions. I am developing software for faster and more accurate crystal and single-particle structures based on these techniques.

Award

  • November 2017 Young Crystallographer Award (Crystallographic Society of Japan)
  • January 2018 Research Incentive Award (Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research)

Keywords

Structure analysis, Cryo-EM, Crystallography

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