ACLS International Summer School 2015

Event date

31 Aug - 3 Sep (UK participants) / 4 Sep (Other participants), 2015

(* 30 Aug to 6 Sep for participants from Japan, 30 Aug & 5, 6 Sep for the flights)

Venue

• Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, Oxford, UK
• Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK

Participants

36 graduate studedents working in life science, bioinformatics, computer science and related fields who are interested in  interacting with students in different diciplines and natioalities.

Program overview

31 Aug

• Flash talks by participants (5 min. presentation for each)

• Oxford campus tour with group work members

Accommodation: Lady Margaret Hall

1 Sep

• 3 invited lectures

• Poster session

• Group work

Accommodation: Lady Margaret Hall

2 Sep

• 3 invited lectures

• Group work

Accommodation: Lady Margaret Hall

3 Sep

• Group work

• Group work presentation

• Open review

• Ceremony (award for posters and group works)

• Cultural exchange dinner

Accommodation: Lady Margaret Hall

4 Sep (Only participants from outside UK)

• Facility & lab tours

Accommodation: Imperial College of London

Invited lectures

• Prof. Peter Cook (University of Oxford)

• Prof. Fumiko Esashi (University of Oxford)

• Prof. Hironori Funabiki (The Rockfeller University)

• Prof. Hiroshi Kimura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

• Prof. Jane Mellor (University of Oxford)

• Prof. David Sherratt (University of Oxford)

​Poster session

ACLS Summer School 2015 poster session is planned on 1 Sep, before the group work session, to help students getting to know each other. Participants are asked to present posters that introduce their research topic with good background explanation.

Please submit keywords that represent your poster topic by the following form:

http://goo.gl/forms/nyMvyiUYgK

We will send you a call for abstract by the end of May.

Group work

Coming soon

Executive committee

This event is organized by the ACLS (Education Academy of Computational Life Science), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan http://www.acls.titech.ac.jp/en

Tokyo Tech students (committee leaders)

• Nobuaki Yasuo

• Tomohiro Ban

• Yoshinori Mizuguchi

• Tomoyuki Ohno

• Maierdan Palihati

• Kengo Tejima

• Li Wenxing

• Keisuke Yanagisawa

• Aleksandar Zdravkovic

Tokyo Tech faculty members

• Hiroshi Iwasaki

• Yasunori Aizawa

• Yutaka Akiyama

• Junji Hirota

• Hiroshi Kimura

• Takashi Suzuki

• Shotaro Ayukawa

• Shuntaro Chiba

• Fangyan Dong

• Hidehiro Ito

• Fumikazu Konishi

• Yumiko Kurokawa

• Yuri Matsuzaki

• Takahiro Yano

Secretariat

• Tomoko Okada

• Yuka Tamaki

• Noriko Ogawa