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Hsiao-Chun Huang
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
Dr. Hsiao-Chun Huang received her Ph.D. degree in Systems Biology
from Harvard Medical School in 2010. After graduation, she worked as
a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences,
Academia Sinica. She joined the Institute of Molecular and Cellular
Biology at National Taiwan University, where she is currently an
assistant professor since August 2012. She is interested in using
multidisciplinary approaches encompassing quantitative single-cell
imaging, molecular biology, computational modeling and synthetic
approaches to understand how pathway architectures give rise to
interesting cellular behaviors, including cell-cell variability.
2011 - 2012
2005 - 2010
2003 - 2005
1999 - 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow in Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica
Ph.D. Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA
M.S. Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
B.S. Electroics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Weimou Zheng
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica
Wei-Mou Zheng received his B.S. degree in Physics from Peking
University, China. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Statistical
Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin from 1981 to 1987, during
which period he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Free
University of Brussels, Belgium (supervised by Prof. I. Prigogine). He is
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Academia Sinica. His research interests cover quantum mechanics,
statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and bioinformatics.
1981 - 1987
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a visiting scholar,
the Center for Statistical Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Brussels, Belgium
B.S. Peking University, China
Kazuharu Arakawa
Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Dr.Kazuharu Arakawa received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from
Keio University in 2006. After graduation, he worked as a research
associate at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University.
He is currently a project assistant professor since 2009. His research
interest is bioinformatics and system biology. For example, bacterial
genome sequence analysis, metabolomics, G-language system, etc.
Recently, he focuses on transomic analysis of Hypsibius dujardini,
which is "the strongest species all over the world".
2009 2007 - 2009
2006 - 2007
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2004 - 2006
Project Assistant Professor, Keio University
Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
JSPS Research Fellow(PD)
Ph.D Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
Sunghoon Kim
College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University
Dr. Sunghoon Kim received his Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and
biochemistry from Brown University, USA in 1991. After graduation he
did his post-doc at MIT biology till 1994. He was a associate professor
at Sungkyunkwan university in Korea 1994 from to 2001. From 2001 to
now, he is a professor in department of molecular medicine and
biopharmaceutical sciences Graduate school of convergence science
and technology and college of pharmacy, Seoul National University,
Korea. He is now also the director of Medicinal Bioconvergence
Research Center, leading the project of drug target discovery and
technology innovation.
His main research interest are 1. integrated biology for drug target
discovery, 2. convergence research of science and technologies for the
innovation of drug discovery, 3 cancer systems biology
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Professor, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Post- doc fellow at MIT biology, USA
Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, USA
M.D. Biotechnology ,Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
B.S. College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea
Takashi Ito
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Dr. Itoh received his M.D. (1984) and Ph.D. (1990) from Kyushu
University, Japan. After his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley, he
joined the Human Genome Center at the University of Tokyo as
Assistant Professor in 1992. He was promoted to Professor of the Cancer
Research Institute at Kanazawa University in 1999. He then moved to
the Department of Computational Biology (2003) and the Department
of Biophysics and Biochemistry (2009) at the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Itoh performed a first comprehensive two-hybrid analysis of the yeast proteome as a pioneer of
interactome analysis. He also performed a large-scale full-length cDNA analysis to reveal unexpected
complexity of the yeast transcriptome. He has been also interested in epigenomics to develop unique
methods for imprinted gene hunting, allelic methylation analysis, one-hybrid screening for methylated
DNA-binding proteins, and highly sensitive whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. Professor Itoh has
published many important Papers on epigenetics and other biological phenomenon. He is a wet-lab
researcher with an outstanding appreciation of the role computation can play in biology, and
experience advising graduate students in a multi-disciplinary department. In short, a perfect speaker
to foster new collaborations between experimental and computational scientists.
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Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University
Associate Professor, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Research Associate, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo