Welcome
Our goal is to understand diverse biological phenomena from physical aspect at molecular level. For the purpose, we are using theoretical and molecular simulation approaches.
Announcement
Open PostDoc positions (Unavailable)
News
CafeMol ver 2.0 release
2016/8/31
We finally release CafeMol version 3.0
CafeMol ver 2.0 release
2012/5/31
We finally release CafeMol version 2.0
CafeMol ver 1.0 release
2010/12/27
We finally release CafeMol version 1.0. CafeMol is the coarse-grained biomolecular simulation software that we have been developing.
CafeMol beta release
2009/8/10
We are glad to announce the release of CafeMol beta version. CafeMol is the coarse-grained biomolecular simulation software that we have been developing.
HP renewal
2008/5/10
We renewed lab homepage.
Lab move
2007/4/1
Takada Lab moved from Kobe Univ to Kyoto Univ.
Research
Molecular motor
Free-energy transducer
Biomolecular motor transduces chemical energy supplied by ATP hydrolysis to mechanical work. It works solely by a single set of nano-scale molecules and its transduction efficiency is amazingly high. We are conducting simulation-based study to clarify its working principles.
Protein folding
Proteins, born in a random-coil structure, can spontaneously fold to their native structures. We study physical chemistry of protein folding mechanisms.
Protein structure prediction
One of the most difficult problem in molecular biology
It has been dream for ~50 years in this field that, given an amino acid sequence, we would like to predict the native structure of the protein.
Structure change and function
Allostery
Conformational change of proteins upon binding to their partners is a fundamental for virtually all biological phenomena. We study its mechanisms via molecular simulations.
Multiscale-modeling of biomolecular systems
Other interested theme
Protein in vivo
DNA structure & dynamics
Lipid membrane dynamics
Computational protein design
Simulation methodology
Systems biology
Bioinformatics