Shigeki Mitaku has been a Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Japan, since 2003. His research interests lie in the biophysics of proteins, membranes and genome sequences, particularly in their macroscopic properties. His research methods include experiments such as ultrasonic and spectroscopic measurements, as well as computational analysis of amino acid and genomic sequences. He has been a board member of the Physical Society of Japan, since 1997, president of the Biophysical Society of Japan, since 2006, and a visiting fellow of Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, since 2013. His publications include 'Introduction to Molecular Biology' (2002, in Japanese) and 'A Modern Approach to Biological Science' (2015, in Japanese). His translations include 'The Edge of the Unknown' by J. Trefil (1996) and 'How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 6th Edition' by R. A. Day and B. Gastel (2006).Ryusuke Sawada has been an Assistant professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Japan, since 2022. His research interests include the biological evolution of genomes and protein sequences, and computational methods for drug development.
