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Plenary Speakers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof.<\/strong> MD Rezaul Karim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor and Chair, Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenary Speaker & Career Development Panel Discussion Speaker
Area of expertise: Cancer biology
Past JSPS research fellow at Kyoto University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assoc. Prof.<\/strong> Ming-Yi Chou<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plenary Speaker & Career Development Panel Discussion Speaker
Area of expertise: Animal behavior, neurobiology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Career Development Panel Discussion Speakers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assoc. Prof.<\/strong> Mariko Sasaki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Area of expertise: Gene amplification mechanisms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr.<\/strong> Ivana Duic Urushibata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientist, xFOREST Therapeutics Co., Ltd., Japan; GSB alumni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Area of expertise: RNA-targeted drug discovery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr.<\/strong> Marco Visentini Scarzanella<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of Retail Science, Amazon Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Area of expertise: data science, machine learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Post-doctoral researcher, Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany; Cologne Excellence Cluster for Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Germany; GSB alumni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.<\/strong> Shoma Ishikawa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Area of expertise: DNA damage response, telomere, cytoplasmic DNA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Judges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Student oral presentation session 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Prof. Mineko Kengaku<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lab of Developmental Neurobiology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Assoc. Prof. Peter Carlton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lab of Chromosome Function and Inheritance<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Assoc. Prof. Spyros Goulas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Junior Assoc. Prof. Kelvin Hui<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Dr. Shoma Ishikawa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Medical Faculty, University of Cologne<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    • Student oral presentation session 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Assoc. Prof. Yuhei Goto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lab of Cell Cycle Regulation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Kanda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lab of Genetics<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      Assoc. Prof. Ming-Yi Chou<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      Asst. Prof. Fabian Raudzus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      CiRA, Graduate School of Medicine<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      Dr. Marco Scarzanella<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Amazon Company, Japan<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Prof. MD Rezaul Karim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Assoc. Prof. Knut Woltjen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Assoc. Prof. Makoto Hayashi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        IFOM and Kyoto University Joint Research Laboratory, Graduate School of Medicine<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Assoc. Prof. Mariko Sasaki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        National Institute of Genetics, Japan<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Dr. Ivana Duic Urushibata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        xFOREST Therapeutics Co., Ltd.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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        Plenary Speakers Prof. MD Rezaul Karim Professor and Chair, Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Plenary Speaker & Career Development Panel Discussion SpeakerArea of expertise: Cancer biologyPast JSPS research fellow at Kyoto University Learn more Assoc. 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