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Takuya Shiota is the Tenure Track Associate Professor of Organization for Promotion of Tenure Track at the University of Miyazaki. He graduated from Konan University with a Bachelor of Science and Engineering in 2007. As an undergraduate student, he studied in vitro protein folding under Prof. Yohei Watanabe. He completed the doctoral degree with Prof. Toshi Endo at Nagoya University. Dr, Shiota's Ph.D. project was on the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of receptor domain of mitochondrial outer membrane protein translocator TOM complex using in vivo site-specific photocrosslinking method. In this work, he optimized in vivo BPA crosslinking to the mitochondrial membrane proteins. He was a JSPS DC1 fellow during Ph.D. student. He pursued his studies under Prof. Trevor Lithgow at Monash University, Australia as a research fellow of TOYOBO, JSPS, and ARC. He completed two outstanding jobs during pos-doc. One is revealed the architecture of the TOM complex and molecular mechanisms of the TOM complex. The other is the invention of the new in vitro protein assembly assay system to analyze the assembly of the bacterial beta-barrel membrane protein into the outer membrane, termed EMM assembly assay. In 2017, Dr. Shio established his laboratory at the University of Miyazaki on understanding the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial beta-barrel membrane protein assembly machinery.