1. NAIST
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2012/10/20
Hitoshi SHIMIZU

2. What is NAIST
 Nara Institute of Science and Technology
 I graduated from NAIST in 2004
 Located at Ikoma, Nara prefecture
 Established in 1991
 Has no undergraduate school,
only 3 graduate schools
 Composed of Bio, Info, Material
 Students come from various universities
 Prof.Yamanaka (2012 Nobel prize) belonged to NAIST while
I was a graduate student

3. Why I selected NAIST
 I didn’t want to enter the same grad school as my undergrad
school (Univ. of Tokyo)
 I wanted to change my major (biotechnology)
 I wanted to experience a different culture
 I failed to enter the grad school abroad
 I thought I could study hard in Japan, too.
 NAIST was the best place for me !
 Students like me gather at NAIST
 NAIST is located in Kansai (closer to my hometown)
 NAIST was a new school

4. What I learned at NAIST
 I majored in Bioinformatics
 I examined a expression of DNA of bacteria
 I found that operons (sets of genes) can be specified by the
correlation of the genes expression
 Statistics
 I enjoyed my campus life
 Student dorm
 Located in a countryside
 Many friends…
 A sports fest : Long distance relay (I form a team)
 Drive to somewhere without purpose

5. Pictures of Today’s topic
http://www.naist.jp/index_j.html
Prof.Yamanaka