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KITAMURA Keiji

Department / Course Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Graduate School of Pharmacy Major in Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Books and theses
Papers		ATP as a Key Modulator of Fused-in-sarcoma Phase Separation and Aggregation: Insights into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathogenesis Journal of Molecular Biology (Co-authored) 2025/06/21
Papers		Mechanism underlying liquid-to-solid phase transition in fused in sarcoma liquid droplets 32 (24),pp.19346-19353 (Co-authored) 2022/08/04

Academic background
2024/04/01～	Grad. Sch. of Ritsumeikan University
2022/08/03～2022/09/28	Master Course Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology TU Dortmund University Studying abroad
2022/04/01～2024/03/31	Grad. Sch. of Ritsumeikan University Completed (Pharmaceutical analytical chemistry and physicochemistry)
2018/04/01～2022/03/31	Bioengineering Faculty of Life Science Ritsumeikan University Graduated

Academic conference attendance and presentation
2025/03/28	Thermodynamical modulation of fused in sarcoma phase separation with small cosolvents
2025/02/16	TUNING BIOMOLECULAR LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATIONS BY PREFERENTIAL HYDRATION AND INTERACTION OF SMALL OSMOLYTES WITH PROTEINS (Biophysical society 2025 annual meeting)
2024/09/24	Modulation of Biomolecular Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation by Preferential Hydration and Interaction of Small Osmolytes with Proteins (IPR Seminar/The 8th LLPS Symposium/The Biophysical Society of Japan Joint Seminar “Toward establishing LLPS research systems”)
2023/11/15	Effects of small molecular compounds on protein liquid-liquid phase separation: Urea and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) (The 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)
2023/07/06	Liquid-liquid phase separation and irreversible aggregation of the RNA-binding protein, fused in sarcoma (FUS) (The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan)
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Internal Scholarship and Research Grants receiving status
	DAIGAKUIN SEISEKI-YUSHUSHA Scholarship (For 2nd Year Students) Scholarship Ⅱ
2024 2024
2024 2024	Daiichi-Sankyo ”Habataku” Support Program for the Next Generation of Researchers
2025 2025