Yuji Goto
Dr. Yuji Goto obtained a Doctoral Degree (1982) from the Graduate School of Science, Osaka University. He experienced postdoctoral period in 1986-1988 at UC Santa Cruz. His current research interests include protein folding, stability and misfolding. At the Institute for Protein Research (1998-present), his group developed several key techniques studying amyloid fibrils. These include the H/D exchange of amyloid fibrils monitored by NMR and the real-time and single-fiber monitoring of amyloid growth by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Recently, he has shown that ultrasonication is an effective agitation to trigger amyloid fibrillation. He address an alternative view of amyloid fibrils as supersaturation-limited crystal-like aggregates formed above the solubility. He was the first President of Asian Pacific Protein Association (2010-2011).
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