2009. Global COE human resource cultivation project A
“Escorting tour to the International
excellent laboratories”
Seeking Participant !!
June 3, 2009
Modified on June 25, 2009
Let’s Learn from the graduated elder members work in excellent lab！
Leaded by escorting professors (2), Why don’t you make a 13-day stay at
laboratories in the three famous universities?
You may take lectures of researchers representing internationally, and
enjoy research exchanges among your alumni and young researchers.
Let’s become a master of presentation！
Advanced training to explain your own present research in English will be
required. We are expecting you to make a presentation of your present
research in the United States. The purpose of this tour is to observe and
hear how alumni living their lives as researcher in academic research system.
Through this experience you will find a number of things to prepare in order to
accumulate overseas career in the near future.
Schedule
August 8
: Departing from Sapporo to San Francisco
August 9-11 : Staying at the University of California, Berkeley (Dr. Hiroshi Nikaido’s lab)
August 12
: Departing from San Francisco to Minneapolis
August 13-14 : Staying at the University of Minnesota (Dr. Fumiaki Katagiri’s lab)
August 15
: Departing from Minneapolis to New York
August 16 -18: Staying at the Rockefeller University (Dr. Nam-Hai Chua’s lab)
August 19-20 : Departing from New York to Sapporo
Object person and head-count of application
This program is designed for 6-8 Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral fellow in
Graduate School of Environmental Science and Division of Environmental
Resources, Graduate School of Agriculture who wishing to join overseas
laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow.
Research fields of visiting laboratories
University of California, Berkeley (Dr. Hiroshi Nikaido’s lab) : molecular and cell biology
University of Minnesota (Dr. Fumiaki Katagiri’s lab) ：Plant pathology, Bioinformatics
Rockefeller University (Dr. Nam-Hai Chua’s lab) : Plant molecular biology
Though this project is planned to visit biological fields, we don’t give preference
to Ph.D. candidate of biological field over other fields for selection of
participants. We welcome participant from different fields as well. Also we
have an alternative plan to support participant who wishing to visit other
universities or laboratories nearby during each stay.
Participation fees : 250,000(JPY) + food expenses
Out of 450,000(JPY) (per person) including Air fares, accommodation fee, local
transport expenses, breakfast charge, Graduate School of Environmental Earth
Science, Hokkaido University will cover 200,000-250,000(JPY). Therefore individual
payment will be 200,000-250,000(JPY). Expenses of lunch and dinner will be
individual payment. Other expenses, such as honorariums to the coordinator,
researcher, and escorting professor’s traveling charge, clerical cost will be paid by
Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University.
CLOSE OF APPLICATION
June 30, 2009 (In the case of many application, escorting professors and GCOE will
screen applicants. We will inform the result of selection to all applicants. )
Place for application is below. Please contact escorting professors by e-mail.
APPLICATION FORM
Application form is free form. However please include all the items as follows.
Name, date of birth, current address(postal code), phone number (cell phone number),
division, research laboratory, extension number of lab, Ph.D. advisor’s name, area of
specialty, available e-mail address, passport number, express your requests to the
project ( within 50 words )
Escorting professors
Representative professor : Kenichi Yamazaki (Division of Biological Science / environmental
molecule biology)
phone :4522
e-mail： ymzk@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
Cooperative professor : Masaaki Morikawa (Division of Biological Science / environmental
molecule biology)
phone :2253
e-mail：morikawa@ees.hokudai.ac.jp