Department
UVSOR Synchrotron Facility
Biography
2005 B.S. Kobe University
2007 M.S. Kobe University
2010 Ph.D. Kobe University
2009 JSPS Fellow (DC2), Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University
2010 JSPS Fellow (PD), Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University
2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)
2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
2016 Assistant Professor, Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University
2021 Senior Researcher, Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
2024 Specially Appointed Lecturer, UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Institute for Molecular Science
Awards
2007 Best Presentation Award, The 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry
2016 Young Investigator Award, 14th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to DNA
2016 Young Researcher Presentation Award, The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry
2017 16th President Award, Hiroshima University
Main research themes
Spectroscopy for biomolecules
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Circular dichroism, XANES, Photoemission spectroscopy |
Selected Publications
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Y. Izumi, M. Ohara, Y. Baba, and A. Yokoya, “Comparison of core and valence band electronic structures of the bulk uracil and 5-halouracils”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 26, 4422 (2024).
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Y. Izumi, K. Matsuo, A. Yokoya, “Secondary structural analyses of histone H2A-H2B proteins extracted from heated cells”, Chirality 35, 165 (2023).
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Y. Izumi, “Structural alterations of histone proteins in DNA-damaged cells revealed by synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy: A new piece of the DNA-damage-response puzzle”, Quantum Beam Science 3, 23 (2019).
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Y. Izumi, M. Tanabe, A. Imazu, A. Mimoto, M. Tanaka, A. Agui, T. Muro, and K. Nakagawa, “Characteristic oxygen K-edge circular dichroism spectra of amino acid films by improved measurement technique”, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 074305 (2013).
