Reports from lab visits in the KI-Japan collaboration
Doctoral students, post docs and researchers who have done lab visits or study visits in Japan are asked to share their experiences in a short report.
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Lab visit in Japan to learn more about the complexity of Alzheimer's disease
Heba Ali, doctoral student at department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Ivan Nalvarte group did a lab visit in the Department of Neuropathology at the Tokyo University.
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Stay at the lab of Prof. Miyata
Doctoral student Oskar Gustafsson from Samir El Andaloussi research group at LabMed, recently got a grant to visit the University of Tokyo. Oscar's area of research is non-viral delivery of gene editing tools.
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Visiting Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB) in Tokyo
Takaharu Kanno part of Camilla Björkegren group at CMB recently got a scholarship to visit the University of Tokyo. His area of research is Chromosome dynamics.
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Lab visit in Tokyo during the Olympics
Makoto Shimozawa from the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, was awarded a travel grant through the collaboration with the University of Tokyo.
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Report from a PhD-student’s visit at the University of Tokyo
Richeng Jiang and his supervisor got invited to the KI-SU-KTH-UTokyo collaborative workshop in October 2018.
RIKEN-KI bioinformatics exchange programme blog
RIKEN and SciLifeLab/KI have a long-standing collaborative relationship since 2001 and together achieved remarkable research outcomes. Read the blog from participants in the collaboration.
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Oncogentics and Oden pots
Emeli Pontén MD, PhD student at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery recently visited University of Tokyo within the UTokyo-KI collaboration.
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A postcard from Keio University
Matti Lam, PhD student from the Department of Neuroscience recently spent some time at Keio University.
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JSPS Summer Program - An international research experience in Tokyo
As a doctoral student at KI there are different possibilities to have an international experience at another lab or taking a course. Julen Goicolea took the opportunity to go to Japan.