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.
Yoshihisa (Yosh) Hirota, Ph.D.
(Alumna) Nazanin Majd, MD, PhD
(Alumnus) Kazutaka Sumita, MD, PhD
(Alumnus) Hirofumi Yoshino, MD, PhD
(Alumnus) Jaskirat Singh Randhawa, MD
(Alumna) Hiroko Shimada, MD, PhD
(Rotation 2016) Ayusman Dash
(Summer student 2017) Arjun Jindal