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ABOUT US

ABOUT US

The IPR’s Joint Usage / Research Center was founded to serve as a hub for conducting fundamental and applied protein research. Its goal is to advance the world’s life sciences by facilitating collaborations among researchers sourced from diverse global locations. In light of its robust expertise in structural biology, we are dedicated to exploring academic fields that integrate structure and function across various scales, ranging from cells to living individuals. Additionally, we are focusing on fostering young and female researchers from Japan and abroad. IPR offers extensive support to national and international research communities, which includes providing access to large facilities, operating Protein Data Bank Japan(PDBj), and disseminating information by hosting seminars.

Main Activities (of the Joint Usage and Research Center for Proteins)

  1. 01

    Joint usage of advanced facilities and equipment

    IPR provides access to its synchrotron beamline at SPring-8, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers with ultra-high sensitivities, and Cryo-electron microscopes to protein researchers worldwide.

  2. 02

    Access to databases

    IPR has developed a protein structural database (PDB: Protein Data Bank) as PDBj (PDB Japan), one of the four members of the wwPDB (worldwide PDB), by annotating the deposited data from structural biologists in Asia and Oceania and by providing several original services and derived databases. PDBj-BMRB is also constructing an NMR experimental database, collaborating with BMRB (BioMagResBank) in the U.S.A.

  3. 03

    Collaborations including those leading to the development of human resources

    Through public invitations to join the 8 collaborative programs above, we contribute to domestic and international communities devoted to protein sciences and the development of human resources.

Activities

Our major activities are to promote 1. Joint usage of advanced facilities and equipment, 2. Access to databases, and 3. Collaborations including those leading to the development of human resources. Through these activities, we aim to activate protein and life science communities.

Organization

Conducting joint use and collaborative research using the organization and advanced facilities of IPR

  • Collaborative Research
  • Joint usage of advanced facilities and equipment
  • Access to databases
  • IPR Divisions
    • ・Division of Protein Chemistry
    • ・Division of Protein Structural Biology
    • ・Division of Integrated Protein Functions
    • ・Division of Protein Network Biology
    1. ・Research Center for Next-Generation Protein Sciences
      ・Advanced Data Science Center for Protein Research
  • Open call of 8 projects

    1. 1Domestic Collaborators
    2. 2International Collaborative Research
    3. 3SPring-8 Collaborative Research
    4. 4NMR Collaborative Research
    5. 5Cryo-EM Collaborative Research
    6. 6MicroED Collaborative Research
    7. 7IPR Seminars
    8. 8IPR Fellows
  • Large facilities

    1. 1X-ray (SPring-8 and In-house)
    2. 2Electron microscopes
    3. 3NMR (solid/solution)
  • Operation of database (pdbj.org etc.)

    Collaboration Research Facilities

    Collaboration with other organizations

Contributing to life science communities through the study of proteins

  • Collaborative Research
  • IPR Divisions
    • Division of Protein Chemistry
    • Division of Protein Structural Biology
    • Division of Integrated Protein Functions
    • Division of Multiscale Integrative Protein Science
  • Research Center for State-of-the-Art Functional Protein Analysis
  • Open recruitment of 8 projects

    1. 1Domestic Collaborators
    2. 2International Collaborative Research
    3. 3SPring-8 Collaborative Research
    4. 4NMR Collaborative Research
    5. 5MicroED Collaborative Research
    6. 6IPR Seminars
    7. 7IPR Fellows

Contributing to the communities related to protein sciences

  • Joint usage of advanced facilities and equipment
  • IPR Divisions
    • Division of Protein Chemistry
    • Division of Protein Structural Biology
    • Division of Integrated Protein Functions
    • Division of Multiscale Integrative Protein Science
  • Research Center for State-of-the-Art Functional Protein Analysis
    1. 1X-ray (SPring-8 and In-house)
    2. 2Electron microscopes
    3. 3NMR (solid/solution)
  • PDBj

    Collaboration Research Facilities

    Collaboration with other organizations

Contribution to the communities studying life sciences on the basis of proteins

  • Access to databases
  • IPR Divisions
    • Division of Protein Chemistry
    • Division of Protein Structural Biology
    • Division of Integrated Protein Functions
    • Division of Multiscale Integrative Protein Science
  • Research Center for State-of-the-Art Functional Protein Analysis
  • Free online access (pdbj.org etc.)

    Collaboration Research Facilities

    Collaboration with other organizations

Contribution to the communities studying life sciences on the basis of proteins

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CONTACT

Project Team of Joint Usage / Research Center,
Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, JAPAN

  •                                                               E-mail: tanpakuken-kyoten[at]office.osaka-u.ac.jp (change [at] to @)