“The 12th In Silico Megabank Research Seminar” will be held on Friday, September 14.

・Date/Time: September 14(Fri.) 17:00‐18:30
・Venue: Conference Room 1 (2F), Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization
・Lecturer: Itoshi Nikaido (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research )
・Title: Understanding on Characteristics of Cells – On ChIP-seq and Single-Cell RNA-seq

Abstract:
Our body comes into existence when only one cell properly differentiates into 400 kinds of cells. Fundamentally, these cells have the same genome information. In order for a cell to acquire individuality, a proper gene expression and a transcriptional network building in a cell is necessary. As embryonic stem cells (ES cells) differentiate, we have grasped how the transcriptional network would change structurally with the help of statistical modeling in terms of the time-series ChIP-seq and transfer. Moreover, since we are engaged in the development of the new protocol and the data-analysis technique of highly precise single cell RNA-seq in order to suppress the fluctuating cellular status that are said to be connected with individuality acquisition of a cell, we will update the current status of it as well.

Professor Nagasaki will give an invited talk at the 44h Autumn Meeting of The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ). The 44th Autumn Meeting of SCEJ will be held at Tohoku University. Professor Nagasaki will give a talk titled “Environmental management of next-generation sequencing and its practical operation in the age of gigantic genome data” at the symposium ” Proposal from next-generation engineering for effective utilization of biological information”.

Date/Time  September 21,2012 (Fri.) 13:00-13:40
Place  Tohoku University Kawauchi Hagi Hall http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/hagihall/institution/access.html

*Summary of the Talk*
10 years after the age when researchers all over the world focused on a target human genome, the big advances in sequencing technique allow us to face a new age when one can easily read a gigantic genome from a blood sample using handy sequencer, namely the age of gigantic genome data.  A lecture will be given on how we can handle and analyze such a gigantic data based on experiences gained during International Cancer Genome Consortium and Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization.

The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan The 44th Autumn Meeting site is here.

Professor Nagasaki will give a lecture at 16th Bioinformatics workshop.
Place : Minato-ku Commerce and Industry Hole (Minato-ku Shoko Kaikan).
http://minato-shoukou.jp/access
Text Fee : 1,000 yen (Please pay at a front desk on the day).
* If you need a receipt, please inform the address. We will make out a receipt with the address.

http://amelieff.jp/news/benkyokai/benkyokai-16

Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization will hold a laboratory orientation session where acceptable laboratories will be introduced and details about recruitment of student will be given. Our laboratory will attend the session. We look forward to seeing you there.
Eligible person : a person who is interested in aending our graduate school. A student under 4th grade is also welcome.

Professor Nagasaki will give an invited talk at Agilent Genomics Forum.
Date/Time  May 30, 2012, (Wen.)
Place  KFC building, Tokyo
Title  “About resources of supercompuer calculation and analytical techniques that are necessary for exome, transcriptome and entire genome sequencing.”
http://www.chem-agilent.com/contents.php?id=1002303

The Symposium titled “Challenge for Information Sciences to Non-Virtual Big Data” will be held, and Professor Nagasaki give a talk in the session titled “Creation of Infrastructure for Life Information Science in the Age of Life Information Big Bang”.
At the symposium, anyone is welcome and can attend free of charge.

Date/Time  April 26, (Thu) 10:00-17:00
Place  Tohoku University Kawauchi Hagi Hall
*2012 Graduate school of Information Sciences Symposium
“Challenge for Information Sciences To Non-Virtual Big Data”
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2012/04/event20120412-01.html

“Creation of Infrastructure for Life Information Science in the Age of Life Information Big Bang”.
11:40-12:00 Professor Nagasaki

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