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A design principle of functional biomolecules for highly effective energy utilization
  A transition to renewable energy technologies requires new chemistry to learn from nature. It is our challenge to understand the efficient bioenergetic processes of nature and to construct human-engineered energy utilization systems. The research interests in our group focus on the design and assembly of biomacromolecules for energy conversion, catalysis and signal transduction in water, the solvent of life. We take synthetic, organic chemical, biochemical and biophysical approaches to understand the biological molecular recognition and chemical reactions. Miniature proteins and protein/ nucleic acids assemblies are explored to construct artificial biomimetic devices mimicking the function of biological systems, transformation of cellular signals by fluorescent biosensors, directed self-assembly of peptides and proteins, artificial receptors and enzymes based on the complex of RNA and protein, and photosynthesis of chemicals currently made industrially.

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  Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University
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 2024.10.19-20    Science Class "光合成色素を取り出して光らせてみよう" was held at open campus.
 2024.10.11    Mr. Futa komatsubara was honored with the poster award at 第3回超越分子システム若手会.(External URL)
 2023.9.12-14    The presentations were given at The 18th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry.
 2024.7.27    Ms. Asif Mashal was honored with the best poster presentaion award at the 19th Symposium for Young Scientists of the Japanese Sciety for Biomaterials at Kansai.(External URL)
 2024.4    Ms. Suzune Onishi, Mr. Takumi Kajio and Mr. Ryunosuke Kondo has joined our lab as the master students.
 2024.3.31    Professor Takashi Morii has retired. Thank you very much for your past support.
 2024.3.8    The Retirement Memorial Lecture by Professor Takashi Morii was held.
 2024.3.4    An article on the research results was published on Nikkei Shimbum Online.(External URL)
 2024.2.23    We announced the information about Retirement Memorial Lecture by Professor Takashi Morii.(More Details)
 2024.2.22    Doctoral dissertation defense seminars were held by Konishi and Zhang Shiwei.
 2024.1.23    An article on the research results in the field of Biofunctional Chemistry Research Section was published on the website of "Science Japan".(External URL)
 2023.12.22    An article on the research results was published on 客観日本. (External URL)
 2023.11.1-3    Professor Takashi Morii was honored with the prestigious 2023 Ikehara Award by the Japanese Society of Nucleic Acids Chemistry (JSNAC) at the 50th International Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry,(IAE News Release)(photo) and the 5 presentations were given.