Department ofBiochemistry & Cellular Biology

We are interested in the molecular mechanism of how the complex and delicate brain and nervous system are created, so this is a research theme in line with that direction. Our stance is to do only meaningful research that can really contribute to the development of medicine and biology, without any intention of doing end-to-end research that can easily produce results.
Therefore, rather than publishing a large number of papers, the minimum goal is to publish one full paper that is truly important and impactful (not a short report) within the graduate school period as the first author. increase.
If you look at our past list of papers, you can see that the percentage of papers published in the Top Journal is high and the number of other small papers is small.
In addition, we are actively interacting with colleagues in the laboratory who have their own themes, and we are cooperating with each other in their areas of expertise, so I think we can publish many co-authored papers.

Yes. Please be assured. In a university laboratory, the number of students is large compared to the number of faculty members, so it is generally difficult to keep an eye on each graduate student.
In our laboratory, there are more researchers who have obtained doctoral degrees than graduate students, so it is possible to provide detailed guidance.
In addition, we hold weekly meetings to report and verify experimental results, and to make fine adjustments to future experimental plans, so it is possible to avoid situations in which one's research direction gradually shifts.

Yes, I believe it's okay for the reasons described below. The Indeed, in the face of fierce international competition in research, it is the one who continues to deliver truly valuable and world-leading achievements.
It's not always easy. Therefore, the phenomenon that multiple researchers (including graduate students) research on one theme and publish one paper is becoming more common in domestic and overseas laboratories.
I think there are some unavoidable parts in winning the fierce competition, but this makes it difficult to acquire the experimental planning, execution, and dissertation writing skills that graduate students should acquire. Therefore, in principle, we do not have such a system.
Therefore, in order to compete with the rest of the world even with a research theme system for each person, we are enthusiastic about creating a system that allows one experimenter to carry out as many experiments as possible efficiently. At university, students tend to spend a lot of time doing experiments because they have to do various chores (cleaning and management of laboratory equipment, etc.). In our laboratory, technicians provide such support, so you can concentrate on your experiments.
In addition, since it is a national research institute, we have abundant equipment, etc., so by using various equipment, it is possible to automate and streamline the work of experiments, and even one researcher can proceed with experiments efficiently and quickly. We are here.
For example, if you use an automatic DNA separator, the machine will separate the plasmid DNA while you sleep at home after the experiment.
You can start experimenting with that DNA the next morning. In fact, most of our past achievements are research done on a one-by-one theme.
In addition, each researcher has one theme, but since they cooperate with each other's research in their own fields of expertise, they can publish many co-authored papers.