News 2023

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• Dec 6-8, 2023: Jordan and Sakura attended the 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2023 Conference) in Kobe and presented their work on lncRNAs in dendritic cell differentiation.

• Oct 18-20, 2023: Tomohiko was an Invited Speakers for the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) Conference in Ghent, Belgium
  EMDS@VIB2023 meeting focused on multiple aspects of Dendritic cell and Macrophage biology in health and disease. Invited speakers are at the forefront of the mononuclear phagocyte field and provided the audience with many exciting discoveries.

• Oct 11-13, 2023: Jordan was an Invited Lecturer and Instructor for RIKEN-KI Doctoral Course
  Annual Karolinska Institutet ‒ RIKEN Joint International Doctoral Course 2023 was held this year at RIKEN Yokohama to cover Bioinformatics Analysis and Visualization of Medical Genomics Data: https://www.ims.riken.jp/english/2023/07/004573.php

• Sep 05, 2023: Our Lab is featured at the Hundred Views of Data Science Platform!
  https://ds100.jp/research/l-010/
  データサイエンス百景: 未来の解像度を上げるデータサイエンス系大学進学情報サイト。

• Sep 04-05, 2023: Jordan and Tomohiko were Invited Speakers for the NUS - Kanagawa Symposium 2023
  Researcher from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA), Yokohama City University (YCU) and Kanagawa Cancer Center (KCC) presented their work on Advances in Cancer Research in Singapore: https://csi.nus.edu.sg/nus-kanagawa/

• Apr 01, 2023: Sakura Eri MAEZONO joins us as Bioinformatics Assistant Professor
  Dr Maezono graduated with a PhD in Human Biology from Tsukuba University (Japan). She joined us from Craif Inc., where she was primarily developing bioinformatics & ML algorithms for early cancer detection. Sakura is skilled in Big Data Analytics with extensive experience in analyzing NGS and clinical data, and likes to create interactive data analysis web-tools. In YCU, Dr Maezono will be responsible for expanding our collaborative clinical research and will contribute to helping with our Bioinformatics Education.
  Welcome to our BI Lab Maezono-sensei!

• Apr 01, 2023: Jordan’s 5th Strategic Research Promotion Project Grant was renewed for FY 2023
  this internal grant helps to promote YCU researchers in pursuing their career goals by giving them independent funding. We very much appreciate a continues support of the YCU President’s Office!
  Congratulations on your positive grant evaluation Jordan-sensei!