Staff
Professor TANIGAWA, Masato 谷川 雅人
e-mail : tanigawa＠oita-u.ac.jp
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Research interests
Structural dynamics of nucleic acids and G-quadruplexes; development of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (GM-MCMC) and large-scale computing on Fugaku; Bayesian statistics and causal inference on clinical data; machine learning for biophysics.
Selected publications
Salt-independent counterion kinetics and sub-Poisson number fluctuations in B-DNA from microsecond molecular dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2026-05-21. Masato Tanigawa, Takafumi Iwaki.
Reproducible Adaptive MCMC via Sharing a Pretrained Generator Matrix across Runs and Structures. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2026-04-13. Masato Tanigawa, Takafumi Iwaki.
Paradoxical G-quadruplex distribution in coronavirus genomes reveals functional constraints and antiviral therapeutic opportunities. Virus Research, 2026-02. Masato Tanigawa, Takafumi Iwaki.
Assistant Professor IWAKI, Takafumi 岩城 貴史
e-mail : iwaki48＠oita-u.ac.jp
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Research interests
Theoretical and computational soft matter and polymer physics; conformational dynamics of single DNA molecules; efficiency and mode mixing of Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations; mathematical models of morphogenesis.
Selected publications
Evaluation of mode mixing in the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations. AIP Advances, 2025-03-01. Takafumi Iwaki, Masato Tanigawa.
Stretching of single DNA molecules caused by accelerating flow on a microchip. Journal of Chemical Physics 149(16) 165101, 2018. Ken Hirano, Takafumi Iwaki, Tomomi Ishido, Yuko Yoshikawa, Keiji Naruse, Kenichi Yoshikawa.
Marked difference in conformational fluctuation between giant DNA molecules in circular and linear forms. Journal of Chemical Physics 142(14) 145101, 2015. Takafumi Iwaki, Tomomi Ishido, Ken Hirano, Alexei A. Lazutin, Valentina V. Vasilevskaya, Takahiro Kenmotsu, Kenichi Yoshikawa.
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