Antoine Bocquet

Mikihiro Shibata
"Filming single proteins at work using high-speed AFM"

Position

WPI Nano Life Science Institute
Institute for Frontier Science Initiative,
WPI-NanoLSI
Kanazawa University

Profile

Education

2007 Ph.D.           Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

                            Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, Ph. D. (Engineering)

 

2005 M.Sc.           Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

                            Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

 

2003 B.Sc.            Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

                            Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Employment

Oct 2017 - Present  Associate Professor

WPI Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, Japan

Sep 2016 - Present Associate Professor/Unit Leader

High-speed Bio-AFM Research Unit, Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University, Japan


Mar 2016 - Aug 2016  Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Japan


Aug 2015 - Feb 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kanazawa University, Japan

Apr 2013 - Jul 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA

Apr 2011 - Mar 2013  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, Duke University Medical School, USA


Apr 2008 - Mar 2011  Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, SPD, Kanazawa University, Japan


Apr 2007 - Mar 2008   Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, PD, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Apr 2005 - Mar 2007     Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, DC1 Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

 Honors and awards

Apr 2018       The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science

                     and Technology The Young Scientists’ Prize

Nov 2009      Young Researchers’ Prize of the Biophysical Society of Japan

Research Fields

Biophysics

Representative publications


1.   M. Shibata+, K. Inoue+, K. Ikeda, M. Konno, M. Singh, C. Kataoka, R. Abe-Yoshizumi, H. Kandori, and T. Uchihashi, “Oligomeric States of Microbial Rhodopsins Determined by High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy and Circular Dichroic Spectroscopy.” Sci. Rep. 8, 8262 (2018). (+equal contribution)


 2.   M. Shibata*+, H. Nishimasu*+, N. Kodera, S. Hirano, T. Ando, T. Uchihashi, and O. Nureki*, “Real-space and Real-time Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 Visualized by High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy.” Nat. Commun. 8, 1430 (2017). (+equal contribution, *co-corresponding author)


 3.   M. Shibata*, T. Uchihashi, T. Ando and R. Yasuda*, “Long-tip High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy for Nanometer-scale Imaging in Live Cells.” Sci. Rep. 5, 8724 (2015). (* co-corresponding author)


 4. M. Shibata, T. Uchihashi, H. Yamashita, H. Kandori and T. Ando, “Structural Changes in Bacteriorhodopsin in Response to Alternate Illumination Observed by High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 4410-4413 (2011).

 5.   M. Shibata, H. Yamashita, T. Uchihashi, H. Kandori, and T. Ando, “High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy Shows Dynamic Molecular Processes in Photoactivated Bacteriorhodopsin.” Nature Nanotech. 5, 208-212 (2010).