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2018.12.21
NGP Fellowship Report : UCL-Tohoku Kick-off Partnership Event
Misako Tatehana, M2,
Graduate School of Medicine
I attended UCL-Tohoku Kick-off Partnership Event on 11th and 12th Oct. 2018. On the first day, we had a campus tour and learned about the history of UCL and the relation between UCL and Tohoku University. In Neuroscience workshop, 10 researchers gave us short talks. Neuroscience has many research areas, and I was not familiar with some of them. However, it is important for me to know neighboring research field and I believe it will give me ideas for future joint research. Next day, I visited some laboratories at UCL and The Francis Click Institute. I had a discussion with Prof. Turner about my research. He is an expert of sex chromosome research, therefore he gave me comments to my immunostaining data of histone modification on sex chromosome. He also gave me advice to improve my technique of FISH analysis. During these days, I have been so impressed because I met a lot of experts in their own field. It was a good opportunity for me to be encouraged and inspired. I am grateful for all the opportunities, and will work hard as a student of Neuro Global Program.
Masato Ohi, M2,
Graduate School of Life Sciences
I attended “UCL-Tohoku Kick-off Partnership Event” held in London during the period of 11-12 October 2018. This event consisted of a campus tour, a signing ceremony, workshops, and lab tours.
In the workshop for neuroscience, I heard lectures on molecular, cellular, systems, developmental, and cognitive neuroscience by professors from both universities. The most impressive lecture was Prof. Steve Kernnerly’s talk. He explained how areas of the frontal cortex are involved in attention and decision-making in monkeys. This talk was relevant to my own research.
In the lab tour, I visited Prof. Sven Bestmann’s lab, he is my overseas co-supervisor in Neuro Global Program. I reported my own results of preprocessing that was based on visual inspection. I discussed the way to analyze the data automatically by using computational program with him, and I could receive valuable suggestions. I will make use of this experience in future research activities.
