History of RIKEN CLST
Activities
Training for young scientists
CLST has focused on efforts to foster domestic and international young researchers.
Exchange Events for young researchers
For young researchers, the following events were held for cross-sectoral exchanges. Not only to present their own research, it is aimed to create opportunities for a new joint research and their own career development through interaction with overseas researchers.
July 11th, 2014 GSC Tanabata meeting 2014
March 29th - 30th, 2017
RIKEN Sakura Symposium 2017
CLST Educational Program
In order to promote joint research between researchers from different divisions, we conduct internal seminars for better understanding of the basis of each research.
| 2013FY | 10 |
|---|---|
| 2014FY | 6 |
| 2015FY | 7 |
| 2016FY | 8 |
The programs for young scientists from overseas
RIKEN strives to provide the programs to accept the best students from overseas. We have hosted 54 students to CLST from 28 countries and regions.
| Name of country or area | Student Trainee | Intern |
|---|---|---|
| the United States of America | 6 | 0 |
| Canada | 5 | 1 |
| Frans | 4 | 2 |
| India | 1 | 2 |
| China | 0 | 3 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 |
| Australia | 1 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 0 |
| Greece | 0 | 2 |
| Spain | 0 | 2 |
| Thailand | 0 | 2 |
| Denmark | 0 | 2 |
- International Program Associate (IPA)
- Interns studying at the RIKEN Yokohama Campus / RIKEN Research, Fall 2015, page36
“Karolinska Institutet - RIKEN Joint International Doctoral Course 2014”
Karolinska Institute and CLST are also focusing on collaboration between graduate school education. The international lectures for doctoral course of Karolinska Institutet that are partly carried out by researchers of CLST are held every year alternately in Stockholm and Yokohama.
- February 24th - 28th, 2014 in Stockholm
"Employing genome-wide technologies for functional regulation in development and disease"
- February 5th - 12th, 2015 in Yokohama
"Epigenomics: Methods, Mechanisms and Application to Disease and Development" - February 8th - 12th, 2016 in Stockholm
"Non-coding RNA as epigenetic regulators: methods, omics technologies and applications in medicine" - February 23rd - March 1st, 2017 in Yokohama
“Bioinformatics analysis of gene regulation in omics data and its applications to medical problems”