Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
2011-2016
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2013-2016
Advanced Leading Graduate Course for Photon Science (ALPS)
2008–2015
Research abroad program at The University of Manchester
2016–2017
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2017–2018
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017–2018
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2020-
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Awards
2013
“The Research Encouragement Award” School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2013
“The Excellent Poster Award” CSJ 3rd Chemistry Festa
2014
“The Student Presentation Award” CSJ 94th Annual Meeting
2014
“The Excellent Poster Award” CSJ 4th Chemistry Festa
2013-2016
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2017
CSJ Presentation Award
Research Interests
Optogenetics
Biomolecular Science
Research Subjects
Development and Application of the optogenetic systems
Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbene-based C-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with intense phosphorescence and the ligand-specific, organelle-selective translocation in cells. Z. Lei, M. Endo, H. Ube, T. Shiraogawa, P. Zhao, K. Nagata, X.-L. Pei, T. Eguchi, T. Kamachi, M. Ehara*, T. Ozawa* and M. Shionoya*, Nat. Commun., 13, 4288 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31891-3
Photocleavable Cadherin Inhibits Cell-to-cell Mechanotransduction by Light. M. Endo, T. Iwawaki, H. Yoshimura, and T. Ozawa, ACS Chem. Biol., 14, 2206-2214 (2019). doi:10.1021/acschembio.9b00460
A Detection Method for GLUT4 Exocytosis Based on Spontaneous Split Luciferase Complementation. M. Endo, M. Miyasaki, Q. Li, G. Kawamura, T. Ozawa Anal. Sci. 35(8), 835-838 (2019). doi: 10.2116/analsci.19C003.
A genetic screen to discover SUMOylated proteins in living mammalian cells. M. Komiya, A. Ito, M. Endo, D. Hiruma, M. Hattori, H. Saitoh, M. Yoshida, and T. Ozawa, Sci. Rep., 7, 17443 (2017).
Strategies for development of optogenetic systems and their applications. M. Endo and T. Ozawa, J. Photochem. Photobiol. 30, 10-23 (2017).
Optogenetic activation of axon guidance receptors controls direction of neurite outgrowth. M. Endo, M. Hattori, H. Toriyabe, H. Ohno, H. Kamiguchi, Y. Iino, T. Ozawa Sci. Rep., 6, 23976 (2016).
Books & Reviews
A Genetic Screening Method for Mammalian SUMOylated Proteins Using Split Fluorescence Protein Reconstitution Maki Komiya, Mizuki Endo, Takeaki Ozawa, SUMOylation and Ubiquitination: Current and Emerging Concepts, Caister Academic Press, pp123–134 (2019).