Collaborations in Japan

• Prof. Hiroyuki Kitahata (Department of Physics, Chiba University) and Dr. Yuki Koyano (Department of Physics, Tohoku University): analytical and computational investigations of crowded active colloids as models for bacterial cytoplasm.

• Prof. Shigeyuki Komura (Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University): Hydrodynamical effects of conformational changes in protein machines. PhD student Yuto Hosaka is involved.

International collaborations

• Prof. Oliver Daumke and Dr. Jeffrey Noel (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) and Prof. Frank Noe (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University of Berlin): Multi-level modeling of dynamin filaments on biological membranes (all-atom and coarse-grained structure-based molecular dynamics simulations, polymer-like modeling, continuous elastic-theory descriptions).

• Prof. Jin Yu (University of California, Irvine): Functional conformational dynamics in protein machines (all-atom and coarse-grained structure-based molecular dynamics simulations). PhD student Liqiang Dai is involved.