Mikihiro Shibata
"Filming single proteins at work using high-speed AFM"
Position
WPI Nano Life Science InstituteInstitute for Frontier Science Initiative,
WPI-NanoLSI
Kanazawa University
Profile
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,
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016 Associate Professor
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Apr 2013 - Jul 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Apr 2011 - Mar 2013 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad
Apr 2008 - Mar 2011 Research Fellow of the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, SPD
Apr 2007 - Mar 2008 Research Fellow of the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, PD
Apr 2005 - Mar 2007 Research Fellow of the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, DC1
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)