KAYA Motoshi

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics (UG), Department of Physics (GR), Graduate School of Science

Current Research

In order to gain an insight into the functional mechanism of single / multiple motor protein molecules, I have been developing the fluorescence imaging and optical trapping system with a nanometer / piconewton accuracy. I focus particulaly on skeletal muscle proteins, myosins and actins.
In muscle cell culture, the dynamics of proteins and intracellular organelles are measured by in-cell imaging to understand the mechanisms of muscle cell fusion and sarcomere formation. I also focus on the extraction of features of cell morphology and kinetics using machine learning.

Keywords

molecular motor, single molecule measurement, myosin, actin, muscle, optical tweezers, fluorescence imaging