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Serial article ‘Research Interview’ ends this month due to my new at a newspaper company. I hope you enjoyed reading or got some useful information about Bioinformatics and Kinoshita & Obayashi lab. Thanks to my interviewees, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students of the Lab, students of the School of engineering, and high school students at open campus. I was unfamiliar with Bioinformatics and making translation into English when the serial started. My goal is that writing clear and accurate article, and I’ve tried to choose better words for translation. Conversation with interviewees is the most important…
September 25, 2015 By Shizu YAMAGUCHI Assistant Prof Kazunori YAMADA started his life in Tohoku in this April. He thinks that Kinoshita Lab gives researchers latitude than usual. “Strict restriction on research isn’t good for researchers,” he said. Students can study their research easier with teachers’ directions——some of restriction, especially during their job hunting. However, the Assistant Prof isn’t satisfied with easier and narrow circumstances. Now he’s trying to decide his theme for research. The choices are analysis of proteins, research of medicine and protein, and study of genome techniques. You might feel hard to decide your…
By Shizu YAMAGUCHI September 16, 2015 It’s time for debate. New genome sequence techniques are developed these past few years. Associate Prof Ikuko MOTOIKE is a researcher of genome sequence and medical science. Gene information brings us various ethical issues. She’s cautious about sequencing her genome. DEVELOPING TECHNIQUE Sun Yat-sen University revealed their experiment that editing human embryos’ genome in this April. Nature and Science didn’t accept their report for reason of ethical problem. It was too early to carry out. Today genome sequencing is widely used for medicine except for altering human embryo(＝life information). The Associate…
By Shizu YAMAGUCHI Tohoku University held 2-days open campus of 2015, on July 28th and 29th. I visited one of its biggest sites, the School of Engineering, for the first time. Officials said about 8,000 people came to the event at the School of Engineering. The School lies in Aobayama. There were some tents for guidance outside, and a sign showed laboratories’ sections to visitors. They have 7 main subjects —Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (famous for spacecraft ‘Hayabusa’), Electrical Information and Physics Engineering etc. Kinoshita & Obayashi Laboratory is one of Electrical Information and Physics…
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…
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,…
By Shizu YAMAGUCHI June 23, 2015 The associate professor Takeshi OBAYASHI tries to solve his problem “what are human beings? ” using way of genome analysis. He and his colleagues developed an open database system that shows gene coexpression networks. It helps other researchers choice patterns of genes for their research. INTEREST IN THE PAST He had studied about plants as a graduate school student. When he did mouse vivisection first, organs’ minuteness made an impression. However, he didn’t want to kill mice everyday at the same time. Some of animal researches, rapid developing vaccine or medicine, confront…
Today we restart our working or studying after the Golden Week holidays. Then I start reporting researches of Kinoshita and Obayashi Lab, Graduation School of Information Sciences, Tohoku university, as a new writer. The laboratory mainly analyzes the huge amount of human genome data, to find new rules of bioinformatics. Analyzing, and proposing a unique viewpoint are also good ways for reporting. Can I apply this ideas to my articles? Actually I wasn’t the Graduation School student; my graduation thesis of department refers to Japanese literature. However, I’m curious to learn what the lab researches or discovers, and you’ll be…
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