Group member profile - Haruna Imamura

Here is the second entry into what I hope will be a very longseries where I introduce our lab's members. Next up is Haruna Imamura (pubmed), an interdisciplinary postdoc with experience in mass-spectrometry and informatics.What was the path the brought you to the group? Where are you from and what did you work on before arriving in the group? I first joined the biological network analysis group in my undergraduate course in the lab ofMasaru Tomita at Keio University (Japan). I launched aproject, which applied the concept of network analysis to a dataset of phosphorylation dynamics. Because of this experience, I grew increasingly interested in resolving the biological importance of phosphorylation in the context of signal transduction and began to study phosphoproteomics. From my master ’s course, I joined theproteome group led byYasushi Ishihama, in the same university, and learned proteomics-related experimental skills, including phosphorylation enrichment and mass spectrometry (MS) manipulation. As Prof. Ishihama moved to Kyoto University (Japan), I also moved and started my PhD course there. My PhD project was to determine the protein kinase selectivity towards their substrates (Imamura et al. 2014,Imami et al. 2012,Imamura et al. 2012) . We analysed lysates after in vitro kinase reactions and identified phosphorylation sites with MS to obtain kinase/substrate relationships in a high-throughput manner. The information obtained in the study would allow connectin...
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