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Associate Chief Scientist Dr. Yonekura of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center’s Yonekura Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory and researcher Dr. Maki-Yonekura of the Protein Crystallography Research Group were awarded the 2009 Ernst-Ruska Award for their work entitled “Contribution Toward Elucidating the Mechanisms of Biological Macromolecular Machines by Cryo-Electron Microscopy”. Associated with the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics won by Dr. Ernst Ruska, the Ernst-Ruska Award is a highly prestigious award created in 1981 by the German Society for Electron Microscopy to honor research that employs the electron microscope. The award ceremony was held in Graz, Austria on August 31, 2009.


Koji Yonekura, Ph. D.
Ph. D. Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1997
Profession:
Research Associate, International Institute for Advanced Research, Matsushita Electric Company, 1997
Researcher, Protonic NanoMachine Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 1997 - 2000
Group Leader of NanoSwitching Group, the Above Project, 2000 - 2002
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2002 ? 2005
Keck fellow, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, 2004 - 2008
Associate Chief Scientist, Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 2008 -
Major: Biophysics

Saori Maki-Yonekura, Ph. D.
M.A. Chiba University, 1995
Ph. D. Nagoya University, 2004
Profession:
Research Assistant, International Institute for Advanced Research, Matsushita Electric Company, 1995 - 1997
Research Associate, International Institute for Advanced Research, Matsushita Electric Company, 1997
Researcher, Protonic NanoMachine Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 1998 - 2002
Researcher, ICORP, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 2002 - 2006
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, 2004 - 2008
Researcher, Protein Crystallography Research Group, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 2008 -
Major: Biology



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