Yuko Sakajiri
Iwate University, Japan
Biography
Yuko Sakajiri has her expertise in bioinformatics of protein structure prediction and has passion in visual restore. In a previous study, she studied the protein folding prediction of the beta barrel protein and found several folding patterns in the early stages of protein folding using the average distance map technique. Then, she starts the study for visual restore and has predicted the structure of the rhodopsin-like protein and the ion pathway inside the protein. These studies are expected to lead to the development of modified rhodopsin for the improvement of visual restore.