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Kei Moritsugu

Research Scientist

Molecular Scale Team, Computational Science Research Program, RIKEN

2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Tel.: +81-48-462-1628

Fax: +81-48-462-1625

E-mail: moritsuguk@riken.jp

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[Summary of Research]

Computational simulation of protein dynamics using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and normal mode analysis. Construction of physical models for simplifying complex protein motions simulated by atomistic MD and measured using neutron scattering. These models include a “coupled normal-mode model” applied to the analysis of vibrational energy transfer in myoglobin molecule, an analysis relating time-dependent vibrational motions to diffusive motions, and a “Langevin dynamics model”, which was shown to reproduce experimental neutron dynamic structure factors and has been applied to understand temperature-dependent protein dynamics, e.g. glass-transition phenomena. Coarse-grained MD force field calculation, “REACH”, which is a direct mapping method of an atomistic force field onto a coarse-grained model.

[Education]

April 1994 - March 1998	B.S., at Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
April 1998 – March 2000	M.S., at Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
April 2000 – March 2003	Ph.D. candidate at Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
May 2001 – March 2003	Moved to Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, Japan. Received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University, March 2003.

[Work Experience]

April 2000 – September 2000	Teaching assistant at Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
April 2003 – September 2003	Postdoctoral fellow at Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, Japan
October 2003 – March 2007	Postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Molecular Biophysics group headed by Prof. Dr. Jeremy. C. Smith, at Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Germany.
April 2004 – September 2005	Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
March 2007 – October 2007	Postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Molecular Biophysics group, headed by Prof. Dr. Jeremy. C. Smith, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
November 2007 – Present	Research Scientist in the Molecular Scale Team, headed by Prof. Akinori Kidera, at Computational Science Research Program, RIKEN, Japan.

[Publications]

[Presentations] ( under construction…)