A TARA seminar will be held as follows. Date: Monday, October 1st, 2018 Time: 17:00-18:00 Venue: Seminar room, 2F, Bldg. A, TARA Center [Map] Speaker: Hideaki Kano, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba) Subject: “Molecular fingerprinting of living systems by nonlinear Raman spectroscopy” Summary: Molecular fingerprints act as natural contrasts to biomolecules. Vibrational spectroscopic imaging using molecular fingerprints, i.

Tsukuba Global Science Week 2018 (TGSW2018) is being held at Tsukuba Congress Center from Sep. 20th to 22nd. Hiromi is one of the panelists in the session held on 22nd, which is titled “Beyond the border: how we realize the diversity and gender equality in the future?” This session will be given in Japanese language, but some other sessions will be in English or in both English and Japanese. More information will be found at TGSW2018’s website. >> Tsukuba Global Science Week

Yoshito and Shin participated in the 16th Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Vascular Biology, which was held in Osaka on Sep. 14th and 15th. Yoshito gave an invited presentation in the symposium. Shin gave a poster presentation, and won a poster award. We have added new photos from the symposium to the photo page.

Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland, the director of the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen and a professor at Department of Women’s Health, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, visited us with Dr. Eva Brauchle, a postdoc researcher at Dr. Schenke-Layland’s laboratory, and gave a talk in TARA seminar on Sep. 7th. On the same day, a group of students from Ichikawa High School visited our center, and we introduced our research to them. We have added some