Shigeyuki Yokoyama
Emeritus Professor.
Structural Biology
RIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory,
Japan
Biography
Shigeyuki Yokoyama has obtained his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 1981. He was an Associate Professor (1986-1991) and Professor (1991-2012) at The University of Tokyo and presently an Emeritus Professor. He was also appointed as the Director of the Cellular Signaling Laboratory (1993-2004), the Structural Molecular Biology Laboratory (2004-2006), the Protein Research Group (1998-2008) and the Systems and Structural Biology Center (2008-2013). He is a Distinguished Senior Scientist and directing the Structural Biology Laboratory at RIKEN. He has published more than 800 papers and has been serving as Editorial Board Members of Nucleic Acids Research etc. Shigeyuki Yokoyama has obtained his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 1981. He was an Associate Professor (1986-1991) and Professor (1991-2012) at The University of Tokyo and presently an Emeritus Professor. He was also appointed as the Director of the Cellular Signaling Laboratory (1993-2004), the Structural Molecular Biology Laboratory (2004-2006), the Protein Research Group (1998-2008) and the Systems and Structural Biology Center (2008-2013). He is a Distinguished Senior Scientist and directing the Structural Biology Laboratory at RIKEN. He has published more than 800 papers and has been serving as Editorial Board Members of Nucleic Acids Research etc.
Research Interest
Structural Biology
Publications
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Structural and synthetic biology of aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis and translation