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Umena Yasufumi

ウメナ ヤスフミ | Umena Yasufumi
Affiliation and department:
Research field  (1): Structural biochemistry
Research keywords  (6): Photosynthesis ,  Molecular biology ,  Biochemistry ,  X-ray Crystallography ,  Structure biology ,  Protein crystallography
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (9):
  • 2022 - 2025 Structural analysis of metal Inhibition Mechanisms in Photosystem II
  • 2019 - 2024 Structural analysis of various light-driven reaction mechanisms of light-sensitive proteins.
  • 2018 - 2021 光化学系IIにおける塩素イオンの構造化学的な機能解明
  • 2017 - 2019 X線ホログラフィーによる光学系II蛋白質の活性サイトMnクラスターの構造研究
  • 2016 - 2019 構造化学的手法による光化学系IIの水分解反応の機構解明
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Papers (67):
  • Tetsuro Katayama, Shuto Ueda, Yuma Fujita, Yuichiro Akagi, Pankaj Koinkar, Yasufumi Umena, Akihiro Furube. Observation of energy transfer dynamics in a phycocyanin protein crystal by utilizing femtosecond transient absorption microscopy. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 2023. 62. SG
  • Naoki Furubayashi, Koji Inaka, Masayuki Kamo, Yasufumi Umena, Takeshi Matsuoka, Yukio Morimoto. Dynamic interactions in the l-lactate oxidase active site facilitate substrate binding at pH4.5. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2021. 568. 131-135
  • Hongjie Li, Yoshiki Nakajima, Takashi Nomura, Michihiro Sugahara, Shinichiro Yonekura, Siu Kit Chan, Takanori Nakane, Takahiro Yamane, Yasufumi Umena, Mamoru Suzuki, et al. Capturing structural changes of the S1 to S2 transition of photosystem II using time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography. IUCrJ. 2021. 8. Pt 3. 431-443
  • Mishima, Kenji, Shoji, Mitsuo, Umena, Yasufumi, Boero, Mauro, Shigeta, Yasuteru. Estimation of the relative contributions to the electronic energy transfer rates based on Forster theory: The case of C-phycocyanin chromophores. Biophysics and physicobiology. 2021. 18. 196-214
  • Kenji Mishima, Mitsuo Shoji, Yasufumi Umena, Mauro Boero, Yasuteru Shigeta. Role of the Propionic Acid Side-Chain of C-Phycocyanin Chromophores in the Excited States for the Photosynthesis Process. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 2020. 93. 12. 1509-1519
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MISC (19):
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Patents (3):
Education (5):
  • 2004 - 2007 京都大学大学院 理学研究科 原子炉実験所 特別研究学生
  • 2004 - 2007 大阪大学大学院 理学研究科 高分子科学専攻 博士課程
  • 2002 - 2004 Himeji Institute of Technology
  • 1998 - 2002 Himeji Institute of Technology
  • 1993 - 1996 大阪府立豊中高等学校
Professional career (1):
  • 博士(理学) (大阪大学)
Work history (8):
  • 2021/04 - 現在 Nagoya University Synchrotron Radiation Research Center Associate Professor
  • 2020/04 - 2021/03 Jichi Medical University
  • 2016/04 - 2020/03 Okayama University The Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
  • 2015/01 - 2016/03 Okayama University
  • 2011/10 - 2015/03 日本学術振興会 さきがけ研究員
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Committee career (3):
  • 2016/04 - 現在 SPring-8ユーザー共同体 放射光構造生物学研究会 幹事
  • 2019/02 - 2019/09 SPring-8シンポジウム2019 現地実行委員
  • 2016/04 - 2018/09 第56回日本生物物理学会年会 実行委員
Awards (3):
  • 2014/09 - 15th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules Outstanding Poster Award "New approach in photosystem II crystal handlings: characterization using near-infrared imaging, dehydration of the glue coating crystals using humid gas and laser-processing to cylinder-shaped crystals"
  • 2012/06 - 日本光合成学会 特別賞 光と緑の賞 「酸素発生光化学系IIの1.9Å分解能における結晶構造」
  • 2011/11 - 日本結晶学会 進歩賞 「酸素発生光化学系IIの構造と機能に関する結晶学的研究」
Association Membership(s) (4):
THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH ,  THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN ,  PROTEIN SCIENCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN ,  THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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