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    present position   Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University Professor
    Birth Day   7/23/1945
    Academic career   1969/4 BSc, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
            1971/3 MSc, Graduate School of Science,Nagoya University (Physics)
            1974/3 Ph.D., Graduate School of Science,Nagoya University (Physics)
            1974/4 Researcher (Japan society for the promotion of science (Nagoya University))
            1975/3 Doctor of Science
            1976/1 Postdoctoral Fellow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Muscular Associations of America)
           
        Professional career   1979/4 Assistant Professor, Waseda University
            1981/4 Associate Professor, Waseda University
            1986/4 Professor, Waseda University
        Professor Ishiwata specializes in the field of biophysics, specifically the study of the mechanisms underlying molecular motors and the assembly of biological structures. The lab has recently acquired the capacity to observe single molecular motors in the 10nm size range under an optical microscope, which greatly facilitates research in these areas.
Prof. Ishiwata was first drawn to the field when he entered graduate school by the crystal-like structure of skeletal muscle. Awed by its immaculate construction, he has since sought to further understand how such a structure is put together. Progress has been made thus far, but more work remains to be done to solve this intriguing puzzle of nature.
  Ishiwata Lab.