A Personal Research Chronicle for 41 Years at Juntendo University

Abstract

From April 1974 through March 2015, I spent most of the time at the Department of Biochemistry to give lectures of biochemistry to under graduate students of the Faculty of Medicine as well as to conduct basic research. Here, I look back on my research life mainly in relation to peers of the department, intramural friends, and extramural collaborators. The recollection covers three periods sequentially: the infancy of muscle research (1974〜1985), the transition stage to study non-muscle cell motility (1985〜1995), and the developmental period engaged in autophagy (1995〜2014).