Akihiro Kusumi

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Director of the Center for Meso-Bio Single-Molecule Imaging (CeMI)
• Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University 2005-

EDUCATION:
• Bachelor: Kyoto University, 1975
• DSc: Kyoto University, 1980
• Research Associate (Postdoctoral fellow), The Medical College of Wisconsin 1980-1982
• Research Fellow (Postdoctoral fellow), Princeton University 1982-1984

AWARDS:
• Setoh award of the Microscope Society 2003

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Interdisciplinary area of single molecule nanobiology and biophysics / cell biology / neuroscience. Current interests include the mechanisms of signal transduction in the cell membrane, the dynamic structure and function of the plasma membrane including the membrane skeleton and rafts, the mechanisms for the formation and plasticity of synapses and for the development of neuronal polarity, and development of single molecule technologies that can be applied to the studies of living cells.

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