Kunio Takeyasu
Kunio Takeyasu
Laboratory of Plasma Membrane and Nuclear Signaling
Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
Sakyoku Yoshida-Konoe,
Japan
Biography
Prof. Dr. Kunio Takeyasu was trained as zoologist and neuro-pharmacologist in his early career as a graduate student at Hiroshima University and Osaka University. After his post-doctoral research on the molecular and cell biological aspects of the membrane proteins such as acetylcholine receptors and ion-motive ATPases at CornellUniversity and the Johns Hopkins University, he joined University of Virginia as an assistant professor in 1988, and started to utilize atomic force microscopy (AFM) in biological studies. After 4 years of research and teaching at theOhio State University, he moved to Kyoto University as a full professor in 1995. Since then, he has been developing the technologies for biological application of AFM.Dr. Takeyasu has been a member of Biophysical Society and American Society for Cell Biology.
Research Interest
Dr. Kunio's most recent research has been focusing on single-molecule imaging of membrane proteins and chromatin at sub-second time region with nano-meter space resolution.