Career
2005
Graduated Department of Medical genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Ph.D. in Life Science)
2005 - 2007
Research Fellow: Department of Biology, University of RomeTre, Italy (Laboratory of Prof. Pier L. Luisi)
2008 - 2010
Project Researcher: Department of Medical genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Laboratory of Prof. Takuya Ueda)
2010 - 2013
Project Assistant Professor: Department of Medical genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Laboratory of Prof. Takuya Ueda)
2013 - 2016
WPI Researcher: Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2016 - Present
Project Associate Professor: Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
National Grants
- Japan Science and Technology Agency Seeds A (FY2009) [as PI]
- Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Synthetic Biology" (FY2012-2013 & FY2014-2016) [as PI]
- Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Fluctuation & Structure" (FY2014-2015 & FY2016-2018) [as PI]
- Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Hadean Bioscience" (FY2014-2018)
- Challenging Exploratory Research (FY2016-2018) [as PI]
- Young Scientist Research A (FY2016-2019) [as PI]
- Fostering Joint International Research (FY2016-) [as PI]
- NEDO Development of Next Generation AI and Core Technology in Robotics (FY2016- )
Foundations
- Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders (2015-2016) [as PI]
- National Institutes of Natural Sciences Astrobiology Center Project (2016) [as PI]
- National Institutes of Natural Sciences Astrobiology Center Project (2017) [as PI]
- ELSI Origins Network Seed Grant (2016)
Invited Talks
- “Artificial synthesis of transporter membrane proteins in vitro”, The 3rd Transporter Meeting, Chiba, Japan, Nov. 2018
- “Construction of a minimal metabolism leading artificial cell to an evolutionally early cell”, The Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research 11.0, Sendai, Japan, Oct. 2018
- “Construction of artificial cell and the study of Origin of Life focusing on membrane”, The 19th Symposium of Extremophiles Research, Kobe, Japan, Aug. 2018
- “Reconstruction of functional cell membrane based on cell-free system”, Yutetsu Kuruma, Cell-free Synthetic Biology Workshop, Fukuoka, 2017.12
- “Construction of a Model Cell Membrane Applicable to the Protocell Study” , Yutetsu Kuruma, International Symposium on Fluctuation and Structure out of Equilibrium 2017, Sendai, 2017.11
- “Construction of an artificial cell for the study of early cells” , Yutetsu Kuruma, International Conference The Origin of Life - Synergy among the RNA, Protein, and Lipid Worlds, Tokyo, 2017.1
- “Next approach to formulation of artificial membrane”, Yutetsu Kuruma, Origins of Life, UK, 2017.1
- “Construction of self-reproducing minimal cell”, 19th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 2017
- “Construction of artificial cell membrane using in vitro protein synthesis system”, Functional Material seminar in ISSP, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, July 2017
- “Do artificial cells dream of the origin of life?”, The 2nd Keio Astrobiology Camp 2017, Tsuruoka, Japan, March 2017
- “The Origin of life and artificial cell—Is it possible to make a life?”, Science Cafe, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2017
Awards
・12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010 August 19-23th, Odense, Denmark, Poster Award, Title: “Synthesis of Functional Biomembrane by Cell-Free Protein Production”.
・2016 SFS Award in Synergy of Fluctuation and Structure (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT)
Press
[Press release]
“In Vitro Synthesis of the E. coli Sec Translocon from DNA” published from Angewandte Chemie International Edition in 2014. Published media: Nikeki-Sangyo Newspaper, Zaikei Newspaper, Nikkan-Kougyou Newspaper and many others.
[Website]
NIKKEI BioTech ONLINE”The front line of synthetic biology-No Vesicle, No Life”(By Atsuki Takahashi), Aug. 27, 2018,
Kodansha Bluebacks―”The Way to Life 1.0” “Simple!Synthetic ‘Kitchen’ Biology”, “Scientist can create an artificial cell within five years?”
Higan.Net-Buddhism Now, News about the public lecture and discussion held in Nishi-Hongwanji temple (Kyoto), Dec. 2017
ELSI HP Highlights, “Building artificial cell”, Aug. 29 2017
[Outreach]
「TBA」, Yutetsu Kuruma, School Festival in Tokyo Institute of Technology (Kodaisai) 2018, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2018
Jodo Shinshu Nishi-Hongwanji public lecture School Nalanda-Special, “Artificial cell research and Origin of Life” by Yutetsu Kuruma, Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 9 2017