VALUE of SLS
在校生の声
- 原田 翔太（はらだ しょうた）生命情報科学
国籍 Japan 研究室 Uchida Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
九州大学大学院システム生命科学府は，医学，生物学，そして情報学といった複数の学問を学ぶことができる教育機関であり，分野を跨いだ学際的な共同研究に取り組むことができます．私は情報学を専門としていたため他分野の講義が理解できるか不安でしたが，基本的な内容も含んだ講義であったため，講義の内容も問題なく理解できました．
私が所属している内田研究室は画像を対象としたパターン認識に関する研究を主に行っています．そこで，私は機械学習を用いた内視鏡画像からの潰瘍性大腸炎検出に関する研究を，医師の方と共同で行っています．このような専門分野が異なる研究者との共同研究には様々な困難性があります．その一つに専門用語の壁による意思の疎通の困難性があります．私はこの共同研究を通して，相手に分かりやすく自分の意図を伝える能力を向上させることができました．これは社会人になった後でも重宝する能力であり，この能力を伸ばす機会を得たことは，今後の大きな糧になったと思っています．
- Jin Yimeng生命情報科学
国籍 China 研究室 Lauwereyns Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
What I really love about Systems Life Sciences is that beyond studying and research, they also care about my life. Being an international student living alone in Japan, the support and care that I got from administers of SLS really means a lot to me.
In Dubito Lab, we’re doing human subject research on cognitive neuroscience, especially about decision-making. Everyone here is encouraged to find their own fields of interest so we have multiple projects in different topics, covering morality, food-shopping, mind-change, semantic inference, art, etc.
If you step into Dubito Lab, you can find all the members with different academic backgrounds: Computer Science, Biology, Engineering, Medicine… Therefore, the collision of different disciplines as well as the clash of cultures are the routines during our lab meetings, which made all the ideas happening here in the lab more diverse and interesting.
Systems Life Sciences, as a multidisciplinary department, would definitely be a great place for you to do research and collaborate with researchers from other fields. And what’s more, if you’re looking for a warm and comfortable place to work at, I’m confident to say that SLS will be a perfect choice for you.
- Manuel Souvervielle Soto生命工学
国籍 Mexico 研究室 Kamihira Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
In the Graduate School of System Life Sciences, besides biology, I have had the opportunity to learn from different fields like nanomaterials, chemical engineering, and informatics. This multidisciplinary approach has given me enough tools to broaden my horizons and think, not only in research, but also in its feasibility and future applications. In the Kamihira Lab, I can make use of all this new knowledge to continue my research and to propose new ideas to collaborate with my peers. At the moment, I am working in cell and genetic engineering to generate a stable and efficient cell line for the production of antibodies, the best-selling product in the biopharmaceutical industry. In this lab we are not only working to generate an efficient and cost-wise way to produce recombinant proteins, but also researching new bio-artificial systems that someday can substitute a human organ. Our ongoing research needs a wide range of knowledge to solve the issues any researcher encounter, and this lab gives me the opportunity to interact with students from different backgrounds to greatly increase my learning experience.
Researchers nowadays must be able to interact and efficiently communicate in a varied and multidisciplinary environment. In some industries, researchers, designers and even the sales department work together to successfully carry out their job. The Graduate School of System Life Sciences has given me the opportunity to experience this interdisciplinary environment, preparing me for the challenging working environment.
- Shunyi Li生命工学
国籍 China 研究室 Katayama Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, a multidisciplinary institution where you can interact with students and teachers from different fields and expand your horizons. The Katayama Lab, where I work, is also a multi-Disciplinary lab, we prepare our own carriers for drug delivery systems and apply them to medicine and biology. In the Katayama Lab, you can learn not only chemistry, but also biology and medical-related knowledge and techniques. Currently, I am doing research on treating allergies by inducing immune tolerance. We need to prepare nanoparticles, and after that we need to do cell experiments and animal experiments. We have different collaborating labs, and we can learn techniques from them. These may be advantages that other labs do not have.
Nowadays, the boundaries between disciplines are becoming more and more blurred, and it is more important to learn and use techniques from different fields. We believe that our studies at the Systems Life Sciences can become the basis for pioneering innovations in the future and contribute more to society.
- Feiyang Zheng生命工学
国籍 China 研究室 Kamihira Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
The research laboratories in Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences belong to one of the faculties of Science, Engineering, Information Science/Electrical Engineering, and Medical Sciences. Here, you can study many courses, meet students from different majors, and apply knowledge and skills from multiple disciplines to your research. The Kamihira laboratory, which I belong to, is one of the laboratories in Faculty of Engineering. Combining genetic engineering and chemical engineering, we are developingartificial organs for transplantation, therapeutic methods for tumors, and transgenic animals for biopharmaceutical production. Currently, I am studying on the development of genetic circuits and cell-based sensor systems, and I am trying to apply them to the production of biomedicine and the construction of artificial organs. In addition to collaborating with other laboratories of the Graduate School of Engineering, we also collaborated with the laboratories of Faculty of Agriculture to utilize plant proteins as gene editors.
If you want to broaden your knowledge, or apply your own insights to life science research, we welcome your application to Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences.
- Ruiqi Shao生命医科学
国籍 China 研究室 Tsukada Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
At the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, you can study the applications of many related disciplines in the biological field, such as engineering and computer science. Furthermore, you can participate freely in your interested classes, especially cross-professional courses. In this way, you can not only understand the frontier technologies of interdisciplinary studies, but also experience various thoughts by interacting with students and professors from various disciplines. This approach makes knowledge in various research fields an effective tool for solving current professional challenges. For example, in Tsukada lab where I work, the main research topic is mammalian early embryonic development, a traditional biology research. However, thanks to the rapid growth of high-throughput sequencing of DNA and RNA in recent years, we are able to use big data algorithms based on computer science to help solve biological problems. Tsukada Lab is leveraging this interdisciplinary advantage to facilitate the research of early mammalian embryonic development.
I believe that the interdisciplinary communication at the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, will undoubtedly create more and more innovative research results.
- Hyeon-jeong Kim生命医科学
国籍 Korea 研究室 Suyama Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
In the graduate school of Systems Life Sciences (SLS), Kyushu University, you can learn a wide range of life science from basic to applied. SLS offers not only major classes but also a variety of classes that are not directly related to one’s field by outstanding faculty members to develop the ability to conduct more creative and innovative research activities. This is a very suitable educational policy for the modern world that requires researchers who can think innovatively, that is, "scientific thinking" by absorbing various fields in addition to their major.
I'm researching a mendelian inheritance error using human genomic data in Suyama Lab. Our lab is also conducting various studies that attempt to uncover regulation mechanisms of gene expression and evolutionary processes in silico by integrating huge biological data from various databases. In this process, we collaborate with other laboratories in a variety of fields and freely exchange ideas and present opinions.
SLS, which is closely connected horizontally between fields, will be a good stepping stone to grow the ability of "scientific thinking" so that you can act as a frontier that the world demands.
- 長 佑磨（ちょう ゆうま）生物科学
国籍 Japan 研究室 Ikenouchi Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
システム生命科学府は、分野の枠を超えた研究に取り組むことのできる国内有数の大学院です。生物学、医学、工学、数理科学の分野の研究室が手を取り合うことで、国際誌を数多く出版しています。これは、私が所属する池ノ内研究室でも同様です。私は、上皮細胞間の接着構造の分子メカニズム解明を目指していますが、近年この分野では、画像解析などの定量的解析を求められます。私自身、同学府の方との共同研究で画像解析を取り入れ、自分の研究をより発展させることができました。さらに、このようなコラボレーションが実現しやすいよう、講義の中で幅広い分野の研究・手法をフォローできる教育体制が整っています。近年のトップジャーナルでは、異分野融合型の研究が多くなってきており、今後この流れは加速が見込まれます。私は、こういったシステム生命科学府での教育や研究体制を通して、世界の研究者のトップランナーを目指しています。
- Nurrahman Andrianto生物科学
国籍 Indonesia 研究室 Tokeshi Lab. インタビュー日 Oct. 2021.
AMBL is blessed with complex natural habitats (sandy, rocky, stony shores, etc.) close to the lab, making it a perfect place for aspiring marine scientists. We, staff and students, are working on different organisms and topics of marine ecology (gobies, corals, zooplanktons, macroalgae, you name it!). We regularly perform discussions on ecology books and journals of choice to enhance our understanding of the basics and recent advancements in these and other fields. Oral presentations are as well encouraged to develop research questions, and our ability to explain our own works. Inter-lab student seminars with Ecology Lab from the main campus is also held every year to enhance academic dialogue in a more casual manner.
Freedom of choice is accommodated very well. ”Try your hand on anything which might appear promising” is somehow a perfect philosophy for me personally. It builds up confidence to start doing whatever I see necessary. At times, I find it difficult to go forward questioning my own research. Nevertheless, since we are working on different fields with a diversity of research methodology, frequent discussions enrich our repertoire of knowledge. It helps me solve problems, deepen research questions, or even discover interesting new issues.
My current research on coastal habitat mapping using satellite imagery has been a continuous effort since my undergraduate years. Mainly I use ArcGIS for image classification, from image corrections to interpreting results. I have the privilege to work with the Indonesian government body involved in taking field data, enabling me to receive satellite images with high resolution. The map below is an example of what we have been doing so far.
At AMBL, you are most welcome to participate in our field courses mainly in spring and summer, or even to pursue postgraduate studies.
