Education and Training

2014- Ph.D. student, Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo

2014: MA, Department of Computational Biology, the University of Tokyo 2012: BS, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, the University of

Tokyo

Publication

• R. Kawaguchi and H. Kiryu. “Genome-wide computational analysis of local RNA secondary structures detects elevated stem density in introns”. (in prep.)

• Frith, M. C., and R. Kawaguchi. "Split-alignment of genomes finds orthologies more accurately." Genome biology 16.1 (2015): 106-106.

   

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Curriculum vitae Awards and Grants

2014- Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1) 2014: Dean’s award for AYRCOB, an international exchange activity
2013: Travel fellowship for RiboClub 2013 from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific

Research on Innovative Areas “Functional Machinery for non-coding RNAs”

Talk

• Computational Analysis of RNA Structure and Function. Benasque, Spain. Jul. 19-31, 2015.

• Japanese association of the younger researchers of bioinformatics, 6th meeting. Kobe, Japan. Oct. 29-30, 2014.

• RiboClub 2013. Quebec, Canada. Sep. 23-25, 2013.

• 7th Asian Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology.

  Tokyo, Japan. Sep.9-10, 2013.

  Activity and Skills

  • AYRCOB organiser (2013-)
  • Japanese association of the younger researchers of bioinformatics

  organiser (2014-)
  • Applied Information Technology Engineer, IPA, Japan.

  Teaching Experience

2014: Teaching assistant of bioinformatics lecture, Department of Computational Biology, the University of Tokyo.