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The Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
in cooperation with the International Brain Research
Organization (IBRO) is pleased to announce the opening
of the Frontier Biosciences Summer School for the Summer
of 2008 with financial support from the Global Center
of Excellence (GCOE) awarded by the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and from
the IBRO-APRC.
The Summer School consists of one week of intensive
lectures by our faculty, followed by one week of practical
experience in a faculty’s laboratory.
(for a list of faculty and their research interests, please see ■■■■ http://www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/eng/labo/index.html）
The School welcomes applications from researchers and junior faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students with a Master's degree or with at least two years of training in a graduate program (if directly pursuing Ph.D.). The course is ideal for meeting faculty,
obtain hands-on experience in a laboratory, and
experience life at Osaka University and
Osaka itself. All participating foreign students will
receive round-trip airfare from a major international
airport in their country to Osaka University and a reasonable
stipend to cover expenses during their stay. Accommodations
will be provided at a nearby off-campus facility.
Applicants must submit a completed application form and supporting materials as indicated below by the deadline. Selection results will be notified shortly after the deadline.
Week1 (Course Lectures)
Course lectures are separated into 3 categories:
Neuroscience, Nanobiology and Photonics, and Molecular
and Cellular Biology. The 1st day will act as an introduction
for all three. For the remaining week, participants will
be separated into the stream they indicated on their
application and attend lectures specific to that stream.
Week2 (Laboratory Experience)
Participants will be placed into their assigned laboratory.
Friday afternoon, selected participants will be asked
to give joint presentations with their lab colleagues.
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Summer School
2008 Poster download
[241KB PDF file]
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Summer School Summary
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Date |
July 14 - July 25, 2008
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July 14: Registration, Opening &Overview Lectures (all courses combined)
July 15-18: Course Lectures
July 18PM: Student Presentations
July 22-25: Lab Experience
July 25 5pm-7pm: Frontier Bioscience Student Colloquium & Closing Ceremony |
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Language |
English |
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Location |
Global COE Summer School 2008
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871 JAPAN
Telephone: 06-6850-6522
Some lectures and lab experience sessions will be held at the Toyonaka Campus.
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Application Documents |
Submit items listed below by email
to: 
1. Application
Form (for Nanobiology
and Photonics, and Moleclar and Cell Biology courses
only)
Neuroscience course applicants
must follow a different application process.
Please see: http://www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/summerschool2008/neuro.html
2. CV (Curriculum Vitae) with Publication
List (include conference
presentations)
3. Statement of Purpose (how you will benefit from attending
the summer school)
4. Two (2) letters of recommendation
5. Proof of current status
(A certificate issued by your university/institution
or scanned image of
student ID.)
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Application Deadline |
Tuesday, May
6, 2008 (JST: Japan Standard
Time) |
All invited students will attend the overview lectures Monday
July 14, 2008. The next 4 days, students will attend lectures
(which may include lab visits) from one of 3 streams: 1:Neuroscience, 2:Nanobiology
and Photonics, and
3:Molecular and Cell Biology. The applicant
must indicate the stream he/she wishes to attend on the application.
Each student will be asked to make a 10-15-minute
presentation on their current research, and if selected as a
representative of the course, present to larger audience on the
last day of the Summer School (July 25). During the
second week, students will participate in a faculty member’s
laboratory.
Detailed Schedule
| Date |
Overview Lectures |
Mon
July 14 |
Place: Suita Campus, Frontier Bioscience Nanobiology Building 3F Seminar Room
09:30 - 10:15 Registration
10:15 - 10:25 Welcome by Toshio Yanagida, GCOE Program Director
【Nanobiology and Photonics】
10:25 - 11:15 Shuichi Kinoshita "Imaging and Nanophotonics"
11:25 - 12:15 Keiichi Namba "Nanobiology and Imaging"
Lunch
【Molecular-Cell Biology】
13:45 - 14:35 Hisato Kondoh "Body Plan"
14:45 - 15:35 Sachiko Tsukita "Cell Architecture"
Coffee Break
【Neuroscience】
16:00 - 16:50 Nobuhiko Yamamoto "Connecting neurons"
17:00 - 17:50 Ichiro Fujita "Visual Neuroscience: why interesting
and challenging?"
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| Date |
Course Lectures |
1: Neuroscience |
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2: Nanobiology and Photonics |
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3: Molecular and Cell Biology |
Tue
July 15 |
Place: Annex
Building 2F Seminar Room
10:00-12:00
Satoshi Shimegi "Development and
Plasticity of the Mammalian Visual System"
13:30-
Takeshi Yagi and Takashi Kitsukawa "Molecular basis of
neurobiology, gene targeting"
Move to: Nanobiology Building 3F Seminar Room
16:00-
Christine Métin (Institut
National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale,
France) "Cellular
and molecular mechanisms of cortical interneurons migration"
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 1F Seminar Room)
10:00- 12:00
Toshio Yanagida
"Single molecule analysis and nanobiology"
13:00-15:00
Yasushi Inoue
"Nanophotonics for bioimaging"
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 3F Seminar Room)
10:00-11:40
Kiyoji Tanaka - "DNA repair and
Aging”
13:00-14:15
Yasushi Hiraoka - "Nuclear Architecture”
14:30-15:45
Yoshihiro Yoneda / Jun Katahira/ Toshihiro Sekimoto /Masahiro Oka
"Intracellular traffic of functional macromolecules"
(16:00- Christine Metin)
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Wed
July 16 |
Place: Annex
Building 2F Seminar Room
10:00-12:00
Izumi Ohzawa "Extended applications
of visual receptive
field analyses"
13:15- Move to Toyonaka Campus
Place: Engineering Science Building-J 4F Seminar
Room
14:00-
Hiroshi Tamura and/or Ichiro Fujita "Neural
mechanism of object recognition"
16:30-
Tours for Fujita and Ohzawa Labs and discussions with lab members
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 1F Seminar Room)
10:00-12：00
Takashi Jin and Fumihiko Fujii
"Nanomaterials for bioimaging"
13:00-15：00
Satoru Kawamura -
"Rods and cones: molecular mechanism of twilight vision and daylight vision"
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 3F Seminar Room)
10:00-11:40
Hisao Masukata - "Chromatin and cell cycle regulation of replication"
13:00-14:40
Seiki Kuramitsu - "Functional Proteomics"
15:00-16:40
Takeshi Noda / Tamotsu Yoshimori“Organelle Dynamics”
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Thu
July 17 |
Place: Annex
Building 2F Seminar Room
10:00-12:00
Fujio Murakami "Developmental neurobiology:
neuronal migration and axon guidance"
13:30-
Nobuhiko Yamamoto & Ryuichi Shirasaki "Cellular
and molecular neurobiology"
16:00-
Discussions with Murakami and Ymamoto/Shirasaki Lab members
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 1F Seminar Room)
10:00-12：00
Junji Watanabe and Shinya Yoshioka
"Fluctuation and dissipation investigated by laser spectroscopy"
"Structural color in nature: nanostructure and photonics of biological systems"
13:00-15：00
Katsumi Imada
"Structure and function of macromolecular nano-machines" |
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(Place: Nanobiology
Building 3F Seminar Room)
10:00-11:40
Hiroshi Hamada - "Animal Development"
13:00-14:40
Hisato Kondoh - "Cell Differentiation"
15:00-16:40
Toru Nakano – “Stem Cell Development”
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Fri
July 18 |
Place: Annex
Building 2F Seminar Room
10:00-
Junji Seki "Optical
imaging of the brain"
11:00-
Yoshichika Yoshioka "High-field magnetic resonance imaging"
13:30-
Presentations by all participants
(2 representatives, 1 Osaka U. and 1 foreign, for July 25 are to be selected.)
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Place: Nanobiology
Building 1F Seminar Room
10:00-
Free/Preparation for the student presentations
13:30-
Presentations by all participants
(2 representatives, 1 Osaka U. and 1 foreign, for July 25
are to be selected.) |
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Place: Nanobiology
Building 3F Seminar Room
10:00- 11:40
Sachiko Tsukita - "Cell-Cell Networking"
13:30-
Presentations by all participants
(2 representatives, 1 Osaka U. and 1 foreign, for July
25 are to be selected.)
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Lab Experience Week |
Tue
July 22 |
Lab experience in assigned laboratory |
Wed
July 23 |
Lab experience in assigned laboratory
Status reports and discussions |
Thu
July 24 |
Lab experience in assigned laboratory
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Fri
July 25 |
Lab experience in assigned
laboratory (until approx. 14:30)
15:00-17:00: International Frontier Bioscience Student
Colloquium
Place: Suita Campus, Frontier Bioscience Nanobiology Building 3F Seminar Room
Research presentations by 6 Summer School students, who have been selected from the participants on July 14.
17:00-17:30: Closing Ceremony
Place: Suita Campus, Frontier
Bioscience Nanobiology Building 3F Seminar Room
17:30– : Farewell Party
Place: Suita Campus, Frontier
Bioscience Nanobiology Building 1F Lobby
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Participating Laboratories
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Course |
Laboratories |
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Neuroscience |
Ohzawa
Lab - Visual Neuroscience Laboratory
Fujita
Lab - Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Yagi
Lab - KOKORO-Biology Laboratory (molecular basis of brain function)
Yamamoto
Lab - Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Murakami Lab - Developmental Neurobiology
Yoshioka
Lab - High-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Seki
Lab - Optical Imaging
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Nanobiology and Photonics |
Inoue
Lab - Nano-Biophotonics Laboratory
Kawamura
Lab - Sensory Transduction Laboratory
Kinoshita
Lab - Nonequilibrium Physics Laboratory
Namba
Lab - Protonic NanoMachine Laboratory
Yanagida
Lab - Soft Biosystem Laboratory
Jin
Lab - Nano Biomaterials
Laboratory |
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Molecular and Cell Biology |
Kondoh Lab (Developmental Biology Lab)
Tanaka Lab (Human Cell Biology Lab)
Yoneda Lab (Biomolecular Dynamics Lab)
Hamada Lab (Developmental Genetics Lab)
Nakano Lab (Stem Cell Pathology Lab)
Yoshimori Lab (Cellular Reulation Lab)
Kuramitsu Lab (Structural and Functional Analysis on Biomolecules)
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All inquiries should be addressed to:
Global COE Summer School 2008
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences,
Osaka University
1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871 JAPAN
Telephone: +81-6-6850-6522 (from outside Japan, 81 is the
contry code for Japan), 06-6850-6522 (within Japan)
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