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AZAI CHIHIRO

Department / Course College of Life Sciences Department of Bioinformatics

Title / Position Lecturer

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Life Sciences

Academic background
1.	～2010/06	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Department of Biological Sciences │ Graduate School of Science │ Osaka University │ Completed Doctor of Science
2.	～2005/03	Department of Biology │ Faculty of Science │ Kobe University │ Graduated
3.	～2007/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Department of Biological Sciences │ Graduate School of Science │ Osaka University │ Completed

Business career
1.	2018/04/01	Lecturer (Assistant Professor) │ College of Life Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2013/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Assistant Professor │ College of Life Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2011/04/01 ～ 2013/03/31	Research Fellow (DC) │ │ the Japan Society for thePromotion of Science
4.	2009/04/01 ～ 2011/03/31	Research Fellow (DC) │ │ the Japan Society for thePromotion of Science

Research activities
1.		International Society of Photosynthesis Research
2.		The Japanese Society of Photosynthesis Research
3.		The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
4.		The Biophysical Society of Japan

Subject of research
1.	Experimental evolution of photosynthetic electron transfer system
2.	Light-energy conversion system of bacterial photosynthesis
3.	Photobiological hydrogen production under strictly anaerobic conditions
4.	Structure and function of the homodimeric photosynthetic reaction center

Research summary
Biophysics, molecular physiology, and experimental evolution of photosynthesis My research interest is in elucidation of the atomic-level mechanism of photosynthesis as well as its physiological meaning and evolutionary process.

Present specialized field
Genome biology, Molecular biology, Structural biochemistry, Functional biochemistry, Biophysics, Plant molecular biology/Plant physiology, Evolutionary biology, Applied microbiology, Applied biochemistry (Keyword：Photosynthesis, Electron transfer, Molecular evolution, Photosynthetic bacteria)

Books
1.	2021/08/02	Green Bacteria – Energy Transfer and Electron Transport │ Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry III │ 2,pp.333-351 (Co-authored)
2.	2020/10/30	Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria │ (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2021/06/26	Recent advances in the structural diversity of reaction centers │ Photosynthesis Research │ 149,pp.329-343 (Co-authored)
2.	2020/12/01	Anaerobic energy dissipation by glycosylated carotenoids in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum │ Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry │ 403,pp.112828 (Co-authored)
3.	2020/10/01	Energy transfer and primary charge separation upon selective femtosecond excitation at 810 nm in the reaction center complex from Heliobacterium modesticaldum │ Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry │ 401,pp.112758 (Co-authored)
4.	2020/01/29	Synechocystis KaiC3 displays temperature and KaiB dependent ATPase activity and is important for growth in darkness │ Journal of Bacteriology │ 202 (4),pp.e00478-19 (Co-authored)
5.	2018/05	Soft X-ray imaging of cellular carbon and nitrogen distributions in heterocystous cyanobacteria │ Plant Physiology │ 177,pp.52-61 (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/11/14	Revisiting the function of special pair chlorophylls in type-1 reaction centers (International Symposium on Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Regulation)
2.	2022/10/29	Sulfane sulfur mediates anaerobic photoinhibition in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum (Redox Week in Sendai 2022 (4th International Conference on Persulfide and Sulfur Matabolism in Biology and Medicine))
3.	2022/09/30	Structure-function relationships between the Rieske/cytb complex and c-type cytochromes in photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria (The 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)
4.	2022/09/29	Single-molecule transient absorption spectroscopy of energy transfer in photosynthetic antenna complex (The 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)
5.	2022/09/28	PscB is the scaffold for binding of other water-soluble subunits to the photosynthetic reaction center complex of green sulfur bacteria (The 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)
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Winning science prize
1.	2013/08/16	International Society of Photosynthesis Research The 16th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research Poster Award

Message
1.	If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. − Isaac Newton Why don’t you become ‘giants’ and put on Sir Newton on your shoulder?

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0001-8637-9434
Researcher ID
N-9151-2013