LINK-J & UCサンディエゴ　ジョイントウェビナーシリーズ　第16回 with 神戸大学「細胞内シグナル伝達と脂質研究」 セッション5－ 脂質関連科学における計算科学

Dr. Yasuhito Shirai, Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University

Yasuhito Shirai is a Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Kobe University.

Shirai earned his PhD in 1994 at the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University.   He became an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology and then in the Biosignal Research Center (BSRC).  While he was assistant professor at BSRC, he worked as a visiting scholar at the University California San Diego in 2000-2001.  He was promoted to an Associate Professor in the BSRC and obtained a second PhD degree from the School of Medicine of Kobe University in 2005.  Finally, he was promoted to a Professor in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Utilization of Animal Production Resources in the Department of Agrobioscience, Graduate school of Agricultural Science.  He conducts signal transduction research focusing PKC and DGK to develop functional food, medical food and medicine.

Dr. Itay Budin, Associate Professor and Bruno H. Zimm Faculty Scholar, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Bioengineering, UC San Diego 

Dr. Itay Budin is an Associate Professor and Bruno H. Zimm Faculty Scholar in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Bioengineering at UC San Diego.  Trained as a biophysicist, his lab investigates the interplay between lipid chemistry and cell membrane function.  Dr. Budin received his PhD from Harvard University and carried out postdoctoral studies as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley.  He is the recipient of the Walter Shaw Young Investigator Award in lipid biology from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and early career awards from the National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy.

Dr. Christopher Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego

Chris Lee received a B.Sc. in chemistry, B.A. in computer science and a M.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from UC San Diego, where he worked with Drs. Rommie Amaro and J. Andrew McCammon on molecular simulations. He continued his research at UC San Diego working with Drs. Padmini Rangamani and Michael Holst working on models for cellular membrane mechanics and cell signaling. He joined the Molecular Biology faculty at UC San Diego in 2024.

Dr. Daiki Hayashi, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural Science Department of Applied Chemistry in Bioscience, Kobe University

Dr. Daiki Hayashi is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kobe University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Yasuhito Shirai. He began his research on phospholipase A2 (PLA2) enzymes as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Professor Edward A. Dennis at the University of California, San Diego.  In 2021, he joined the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Kobe University as an Assistant Professor. His current research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological functions of PLA2 enzymes, particularly in the context of ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death. By integrating computational approaches, including molecular dynamics simulations and structure-based analyses, with biochemical and cell biological experiments, he aims to understand lipid–protein interactions and their roles in cellular signaling and disease.