On September 25, 2021, Professor Iino Ryota Iino from Institute for Molecular Science, Japan and Professor Yan Jie from National University of Singapore gave us a wonderful academic online lectures for researchers and students of the School of Pharmacy. The lectures were hosted by Professor You Huijuan and Professor Zhang Xinghua.
Professor Iino current research interests include operation and design principles of protein molecular motors, engineering of protein molecular motors, and development of single-molecule techniques based on advanced optical microscopy. At this conference, Professor Iino mainly focused on the working principles of ATP synthase and chitinase and other motor proteins, and the use of protein design principles to construct highly active enzymes and gave a report entitled “Watching dynamic motions of natural an engineered molecular motor protein”.
Professor Yan’s research group is dedicated to studying the influence of mechanics on the interaction and stability of biomolecules. His research results provide a physical explanation of the molecular mechanism for the rapid development of force biology, and promote the development of force biology at the molecular level and single-molecule experimental technology. In this meeting, Professor Yan Jie gave an lecture entitled "The mechanical stability of optochemical molecular switches and their applications in mechanotransduction studies" on the regulation mechanism of the mechanics sensing protein on the cell and the latest progress in drug design.
