The committee aims to discuss the recent advanced methodology and the multiple and innovative usage of conventional technology in structural biology that has been playing important roles in the fundamental and applied research of modern life sciences. The obtained scientific and technological information is widely shared among the committee members and the committee meetings provide open opportunities to promote discussion and scientific exchanges among the committee members of the academic and industrial community.

The committee promotes more conventional utilization of recently developed methodology of structural biology such as cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray free-electron laser and advanced synchrotron technologies, where academic scientists provide the most up-to-date information of the methodology to discuss technological problems and find their solution related to industrial usage such as drag discovery. Moreover, we discuss new methodology as correlated structure analysis which is established in combination with conventional methods widely used for structure analysis such as X-ray, neutron and electron crystallography, solution scattering and NMR spectroscopy. We also discuss how structural biology collaborates with computational science and share its technological information to gain our deep insight into experimental results obtained by structure analysis and to cooperate closely in in silico science by quantum computing. The regular scientific meeting is our main task to provide the committee members with open opportunities to promote scientific exchanges between the academic and industrial community.

April 2020 to March 2025

Kunio Miki
Professor Emeritus
Kyoto University

Academia: 22　　Industry: 20　　Total membership: 42