July 2015 - Researcher Interview Kinoshita & Obayashi Lab

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By Shizu YAMAGUCHI July 24, 2015   What do you think about genome sequences? Some people might imagine analyses of huge amount of data with A, T, G, C. Genome means whole bioinformation of human, but it doesn’t control all of our health. Protein also plays an important role in our cells.   Assistant Prof Hafumi Nishi’s research focuses on protein and genome. It’s possible that studying both genome and protein in Kinoshita Lab.   “Distribution of single nucleotide variants on protein-protein interaction sites” She won the 15th Young Scientist Award by PSSJ. She researched where and how single nucleotide…

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By Shizu YAMAGUCHI July 7, 2015   I knocked on Professor room’s door. Prof KINOSHITA and I started talking in the hot room in the afternoon.   –Is the term for one research determined in advance? My beginning question seemed to be a bit surprising for him. He said the term depends on research-plan and its budget rather than length of time. And some researches may produce unexpected results out of their plans. Some students at non-scientific department relate researchers to workers wearing white coats in a national or private institute, and they’re sometimes unaware that professors are also researchers,…