============= News archive ============= Dec. 18-22, 2015. T. Yamato gave a talk entitled "Energy exchange network model of proteins", Pacifichem2015 "Conformational dynamics of biomolecules and the biomolecule-solvent interface", Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Aug. 03-07, 2015. T. Yamato organized -Protein Dynamics- Telluride Science Research Workshop, Telluride, CO, USA, and gave a talk entitled "Energy exchange network model of inter-residue interactions in protein", there. Jul 16, 2015. Ryuma Sato, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Koji Ando, Takahisa Yamato, Computational study on the roles of amino acid residues in the active site formation mechanism of blue-light photoreceptors, Chem. Phys. Lett. 633: 247-251, (2015) was published. Jul 01, 2015. Dr. Hiroshi C. Watanabe was promoted to Assistant Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. Jul 01, 2015. Dr. Ryuma Sato moved to Tsukuba University as a postdoctral fellow. Jun 19, 2015. Mr. Ryuma Sato received a Doctor of Science degree. Jun 09, 2015. Takakazu Ishikura, Yuki Iwata, Tatsuro Hatano, Takahisa Yamato, "Energy exchange network of inter-residue interactions within a thermally fluctuating protein molecule: A computational study" was accepted for publication in J. Comput. Chem. Apr 10, 2015. Takahisa Yamato was awarded a grants-in-aid for international exchange from Diko foundation. Jul 16, 2015. Ryuma Sato, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Koji Ando, Takahisa Yamato, Computational study on the roles of amino acid residues in the active site formation mechanism of blue-light photoreceptors, Chem. Phys. Lett. 633: 247-251, (2015) was published. Jul 01, 2015. Dr. Hiroshi C. Watanabe was promoted to Assistant Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. Jul 01, 2015. Dr. Ryuma Sato moved to Tsukuba University as a postdoctral fellow. Jun 19, 2015. Mr. Ryuma Sato received a Doctor of Science degree. Jun 09, 2015. Takakazu Ishikura, Yuki Iwata, Tatsuro Hatano, Takahisa Yamato, "Energy exchange network of inter-residue interactions within a thermally fluctuating protein molecule: A computational study" was accepted for publication in J. Comput. Chem. Apr 10, 2015. Takahisa Yamato was awarded a grants-in-aid for international exchange from Diko foundation. Dec 09, 2014. T.Y. has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member for `Nature, Scientific Reports `_ . Dec 05, 2014. T.Y. delivered gave a lecture at `the Center for Computational Sciences, Nagoya University. `_ Dec. 01-03, 2014. We held `International Symposium on Computics: Quantum Simulation and Design (ISC-QSD2014), 1-3 December, 2014, Tokyo, Jpn. `_ Nov. 7, 2014. Professor Shigeki MITAKU (Toyota Physical & Chemical Research Institute) visited us. Sep. 25-27, 2014. We attended at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Sapporo, Jpn. May 29, 2014.　 Dr. Hiroshi WATANABE (Tokyo Institute of Technology) visited us and presented a seminar. Mar. 31, 2014.　 T.Y. gave a talk at the International Workshop on Computational Biomolecular Science, Ontake, Jpn. Nov. 8, 2013.　 We welcome Prof. Koji ANDO (Kyoto University) as a visiting faculty member on 11/21-22, and 12/19-20. Nov. 7, 2013.　 We plan to present a poster by Ryuma SATO, Tsutomu KAWATSU, Kei YURA, Koji ANDO and T.Y. at the 58th meeting of Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 15-19, 2014. Nov. 6, 2013.　 T.Y. plans to give a talk entitled "Molecular mechnism of allosteric communication in proteins: Computational analysis of energy flow" at "Large-scale molecular simulations in biology, chemistry, and physics", Satellite meeting of ICMS2013, Nagoya, Nov. 16, 2013. Nov. 5, 2013.　 T.Y. plans to deliver a series of lecture at the Graduate School of Phermaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University on 12/2 and 12/9. Oct. 30, 2013.　 Mr. Ryuma SATO gave a poster presentation entitled "Theoretial study of DNA repair mechanism of blue light photoreceptors by ab initio electronic structure calculation" at the 51st Biophysical Society of JAPAN, Kyoto, Oct. 28-30. Aug. 25, 2013.　 "Combinatorial approach of molecular dynamics simulations and database analysis for the studies of protein structure and function" by T.Y. and Kei YURA, was published as a review article in special issue on "The structure-function relationships of proteins revisited", *SEIKAGAKU* (The Japanese Biochemical Society Journal), 85 (8) pp. 646-655, 2013. Aug. 9, 2013.　 T.Y. gave a talk at Protein dynamics, Telluride research science workshop, Telluride, CO, Aug. 5-9, 2013. Jun. 29, 2013.　 T.Y. gave a talk at Thermal transport at the nanoscale, Telluride research science workshop, Telluride, CO, Jun. 25-29, 2013. Jan. 20, 2013.　 T.Y. published a textbook chapter "6. Quantum mechanical calculations of the active site" in "Genome computing -toward genome reality beyond bioinformatics, Computational Science and Engineering series vol. 7", pp. 145-171, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Tokyo (2013). May. 1, 2012.　 "Atomic stress tensor analysis of proteins", by Takakazu ISHIKURA, Tatsuro HATANOo, and T.Y., was accepted for publication in *Chemical Physics Letters.* (2012) 539-540: pp. 144-150. Apl. 3, 2012.　 "Ligand migration in myoglobin: A combined study of computer simulation and x-ray crystallography", by Takayuki TSUDUKI, Ayana TOMITA, Shin-ya KOSHIHARA, Shin-ichi ADACHI, and T.Y., was accepted for publication in *Journal of Chemical Physics.* (2012) 136(16) 165101 (9 pages)link Mar. 2012. Congraturations! Ryuma SATO won the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, 2011. photo Feb. 16, 2012 T.Y. was invited at the 1st International Synposium, Frontiers of Computer Simulation for Molecules in Organisms -- From water to small molecules, proteins and membranes -- Center for Simulation Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. The title of his talk was "Exploring Protein Function using Computational Biophysics."