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Name, Title and Position

Tohru Terada, Ph.D., Professor.

Address

Computational Biology Laboratory
Department of Biotechnology
Graduate School of Agricultutal and Life Sciences
The University of Tokyo
1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, JAPAN.
E-mail:

Education

• March 1994, B.S., Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
• March 1996, M.S., Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
• March 1999, Ph.D., Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo

Employment

• April 1999-August 2001, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• September 2001-October 2002, Research Scientist, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN
• November 2002-November 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• December 2004-September 2008, Project Associate Professor, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• October 2008-October 2009, Senior Scientist, Computational Science Research Program, RIKEN
• November 2009-March 2014, Project Associate Professor, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2014-March 2016, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2016-March 2018, Project Associate Professor, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2018-March 2020, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
• April 2020-March 2024, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2024-, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Concurrent posts

• November 2009-March 2013, Visiting Scientist, Computational Science Research Program, RIKEN
• April 2013-March 2015, Visiting Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
• April 2014-March 2016, Associate Professor, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2018-March 2024, Associate Professor, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• April 2020-March 2024, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests

• Mechanisms of protein folding, ligand binding, and complex formation
• Mechanisms of protein function
• Development of new methods of molecular simulation

Activities in Academic Societies

• The Biophysical Society of Japan, Member
• Protein Science Society of Japan, Member
• The Molecular Simulation Society of Japan, Member
• Biophysical Society (USA), Member
• Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, Member
• The Chem-Bio Informatics Society, Member

Publications

• Peer-reviewed papers
• Other papers (partly written in Japanese)

Softwares

• PyHoleFinder
• Perl extension for manipulating PDB files