MORITA Mizuki, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Japan (2008)
Thesis: Development of a Method for Protein-Ligand Binding Site Prediction

M.A. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2005)
Thesis: Expression and Ligand Interaction Analysis of Mannose 6-Phosphate Receptor on a QCM

B.A. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2003)
Thesis: Measurement of Biomolecular Viscoelasticity by using a Quartz-crystal Microbalance (QCM)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Knowledge Structuring, The University of Tokyo, Japan (April, 2012-)

Adjunct Technical Advisor, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), Japan (April, 2012-)

Guest Researcher, Center for Knowledge Structuring, The University of Tokyo, Japan (April, 2011-March, 2012)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), Japan (April, 2009-March, 2012)

Research Associate, Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, The University of Tokyo, Japan (April, 2008-March, 2009)

Peer Reviewed Publications  

Blind prediction of quaternary structures of homo-oligomeric proteins from amino acid sequences based on templates
M. Morita, M. Kakuta, K. Shimizu, S. Nakamura
J Proteome Sci Comput Biol, 1, 1 (2012)

Lipid recognition propensities of amino acids in membrane proteins from atomic resolution data
M. Morita, A. V. S. K. Mohan Katta, S. Ahmad, T. Mori, Y. Sugita, K. Mizuguchi
BMC Biophys., 4, 21 (2011)   

BUDDY-system: A web site for constructing a dataset of protein pairs between ligand-bound and unbound states
M. Morita, T. Terada, S. Nakamura, K. Shimizu
BMC Res. Notes, 4, 143 (2011)   

Prediction of Carbohydrate-Binding Proteins from Sequences Using Support Vector Machines
S. Someya, M. Kakuta, M. Morita, K. Sumikoshi, W. Cao, Z. Ge, O. Hirose, S. Nakamura, T. Terada, K. Shimizu
Adv. Bioinformatics, 2010, 289301, 9 pages (2010)   

Structural bases of GM1 gangliosidosis and Morquio B disease
M. Morita, S. Saito, K. Ikeda, K. Ohno, K. Sugawara, T. Suzuki, T. Togawa, H. Sakuraba
J. Hum. Genet., 54, 510-515 (2009)   

Added Mass Effect on Immobilizations of Proteins on a 27 MHz Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Aqueous Solution
H. Furusawa, T. Ozeki, M. Morita, Y. Okahata
Anal. Chem., 81, 2268-2273 (2009)   

Highly accurate method for ligand-binding site prediction in unbound state (apo) protein structures
M. Morita, S. Nakamura, K. Shimizu
Proteins, 73, 468-479 (2008)   

Hydration and Energy Dissipation Measurements of Biomolecules on a Piezoelectric Quartz Oscillator by Admittance Analyses
T. Ozeki, M. Morita, H. Yoshimine, H. Furusawa, Y. Okahata
Anal. Chem., 79, 79-88 (2007)   

Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter
E. Aramaki, S. Maskawa, M. Morita
The 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011) (2011)   

CASP8 Meeting Report [in Japanese]
S. Nakamura, M. Morita, C. Motono
Seibutsu Butsuri, 49, 151-152 (2009)   

『光るクラゲがノーベル賞をとった理由 – 蛍光タンパク質GFPの発見物語』 [in Japanese]
石浦 章一 [監修], 生化学若い研究者の会 [著]
日本評論社 (2009. 04)      

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (2009-2010)

Support to Research, Supporting Organization for Research of Agricultural and Life Sciences (SORALS) (2008)

	MultiCoMP A database of multiple conformations of membrane proteins
	i-SITE A tool for predicting the ligand-binding sites on protein structures
	Paint-It-Rainbow A Web service to obtain a PyMOL or RasMol script to paint your favorite protein
	BUDDY-system A Web service to obtain a dataset of ligand bound/unbound-state (holo/apo) protein pairs

Dean Prize for International Collaboration (as a member of Student Organizers of The 2nd Taiwan-Japan Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Systems Biology), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS), The University of Tokyo (2009)

Poster Awards, Intelligent Modeling Laboratory (IML), The University of Tokyo, presented at IML Award Competition (2006)

Poster Awards, Association of Young Researchers in Biochemistry supported by The Japan Biochemical Society (JBS), presented at 46th Summer School (2006)

Poster Awards, Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), presented at Young Scientist Symposium of Division of Biofunctional Chemistry (2003)

A Member of the Organizing Committee, Open Discussion for Orphan Drug Discovery 2009 (ODOD2009) (2009)

Symposium Chair, A Satellite Symposium at The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ) (2009)

A Member of the Organizing Committee, ISCB Student Council Japan Division (2009)

A Member of the Organizing Committee, 2nd Taiwan-Japan Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (2008)

Primary Organizer, 27th Study Meeting on Theory of Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure (2008)

Session Organizer, 47th Summer School for Young Researchers on Bioscience supported by The Japan Biochemical Society (JBS) (2007)

Summer Internship 2003 at Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) (2003)

mizuki [at] bi.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp