by Pramodh Ganapathy — Few people can say they spent their summer throwing a plankton net, but that was just one of many things I learned how to do over my summer at the University of Tokyo as part of the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). I interned at the Nozaki Laboratory of Origin…
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by Kevin Hochstrasser — This summer I had the opportunity to travel to Japan through the UTRIP program at Todai. There I participated in frontier research in the Tei Biochemistry Lab. Professor Tei’s lab studies a variety of topics centered on the study of small RNAs through cell culture and computational analysis. My project focused…
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Matthew Kubicki — This summer as a FUTI student in the UTRIP program, I had the pleasure of working in Professor Mikiko Siomi’s new lab in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry department at UTokyo University. Professor Siomi’s lab focuses on piRNA pathways of gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly. Like most researchers in…
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Krysta Dummit Princeton University — During this past summer I was lucky enough participate in the University of Tokyo’s Research Internship Program (UTRIP) as a member of the Tachibana Laboratory. The Tachibana laboratory is an organic chemistry lab which focuses on a class of marine toxins known as polycyclic ethers. Polycyclic ethers are of special…
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(FUTI Report by Jacob Schmelz) — This past summer, I participated in the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP) with funding from Friends of UTokyo, Inc. UTRIP is a six-‐week research experience that allowed me to work on an original project under a University of Tokyo professor. I was hosted by Professor Kazuo Makishima…
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Elton Ho — This is a tale about a young man, Elton Ho, whom I occasionally refer to as “me”, and his intellectual and cultural journeys with Aihara lab in the University of Tokyo. This is a quest in which this young man explores the frontiers of high energy physics through constant failure and repeated…
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Aniruddha Bapat — This summer I had the good fortune of spending six weeks in Japan as a UTRIP fellow. In the days leading up to UTRIP, I had read in detail about the science at UTokyo, and had grown slowly more excited about the prospect of being part of the physics community at a…
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Ichigo Ichie (one time, one meeting) Alana Ogata — I was in a biochemistry class when I received an email from Professor Yamanouchi informing me I had been accepted to the UTRIP program. I had to restrain from screaming on the spot. My dream during my college career was to study abroad in Japan, but…
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by Emre Discekici — I will never forget the summer 2012 I spent in Japan. There are no words that can adequately describe what I have learned, the experiences I have had, and most importantly, the people I have met. It was February of this year when I applied to the University of Tokyo internship…
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by Gulnara Fayzulina — This past summer I have participated in University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). For six weeks, I got an opportunity to live in Japan and to do research in Dr. Kuroda’s Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Kuroda’s Laboratory, part of the Biophysics and Biochemistry department in Graduate School…
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