We are developing and improving the structural biology research environment
using the high-brilliance synchrotron radiation at SPring-8.

Division Information

Member

Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute
Structural Biology Division

Name   e-mail * PHS
Takashi KUMASAKA Director  kumasaka 63475
Hideki SHIGEMATSU Scientist  shigematsu 67868
Kenichi NISHIKAWA Staff(concurrent)  nishiken 63356
Diffraction Stractural Biology Team
Kazuya HASEGAWA Team Leader  kazuya 63595
Seiki BABA Scientist  baba 63510
Hideo OKUMURA Scientist  okumurah 63755
Takashi KAWAMURA Scientist  kawamura 63396
Takuya MASUNAGA Engineer takuya.masunaga 63228
Naomine YANO Scientist  naomine.yano 63444
Luo Fangjia Scientist  luo.fangjia 63644
Integrated Structural Biology Team
Naoki SAKAI Team Leader  nsakai 63838
Nobuhiro MIZUNO Scientist  nmizuno 63797
Hironori MURAKAMI Engineer hiromura 63364
Yuki NAKAMURA Engineer y-nakamu 63362
Fumie OGURA Engineer fumie 67846
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Activities description

The Structural Biology Division is mainly responsible for the development and maintenance of the research environment for structural biology using the high-brilliance synchrotron radiation at SPring-8. Our Division also develops the advanced research environment to promote structural biology research aimed at elucidating biological systems.
We support academic research by maintaining and upgrading the public beamlines, Structural Biology I (BL41XU: Undulator) and Structural Biology III (BL45XU: Undulator).
In addition, in order to meet the increasing needs of users and to promote the use of the beamline, we are upgrading the following items,
(1) Development of methods to automate and remotely use experiments to speed up structural decisions
(2) Development of instruments aimed at application to samples that are difficult to analyze in the past (e.g., microcrystals and ultra-high resolution structure determination)
In addition, we are conducting crystal structure analysis of proteins, metalloproteins, and viruses in the cellular signaling system as a group to advance structural biology research and develop advanced analysis methods.

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