ポスドク その後 (Post-doc, afterward)
Having studied and conducted research in the United States and the United Kingdom as well, I have many memories of my time in research laboratories there beyond the research itself. However, I have almost no memories of Tsukuba apart from those related to my research. This is probably natural, since I did nothing but research at Tsukuba. For me, however, the time I spent conducting research is more than enough, and the papers resulting from my work there represent everything to me. Therefore, I...
As I mentioned when reflecting on my high school days, the high school I dropped out of was affiliated in some way with the University of Tsukuba, although I am not entirely sure of the exact relationship. In any case, many of the teachers there were graduates of the University of Tsukuba. Among them, some of the teachers involved in sports clubs—especially in the judo club—would hit students without hesitation under the guise of discipline (I suppose attitudes toward corporal punishment...
After completing my research at Tsukuba I am deeply grateful to my former advisor at the University of Tsukuba for his guidance during my five years as a doctoral student and for his support during my one year as a part-time researcher. Both during my doctoral studies and afterward as a researcher, he made various arrangements that allowed me to pursue the research I wished to conduct, for which I remain very thankful. As I mentioned earlier, the University of Tsukuba has a traditional...
In the end, I spent two nights in Paris and three nights in Munich. During the trip, I was able to meet prominent professors and discuss my research with them, receiving many valuable suggestions and insights, which made the visit very worthwhile. However, the schedule was extremely tight, and I think I was quite exhausted. I had intended to leave some time for myself on the last day, but a storm ruined my plans, and I was not able to make the most of the opportunity. Although I had stayed in...
Nevertheless, I managed to buy a ticket and board the train, but it moved like a slow local train and made very little progress. In the end, the train I was on turned back toward Munich. Although it was disappointing, I had no choice but to abandon my plan to travel all the way to the Danube. The weather was not very good, and it rained intermittently, but it did not seem particularly severe at the time, so I felt quite dissatisfied. However, after I returned to Japan, I later learned that a...
When I arrived at the station that day, there was a huge crowd, and something seemed wrong. I lined up at the ticket counter to collect my reserved train ticket, but it turned out that a storm was approaching and the train schedule had been severely disrupted. I waited in line for quite some time, but when I finally reached the counter, I realized that the staff there did not speak English, so I had to line up again at another counter where English was spoken. I had been traveling around France...
The Danube River Project Since I had traveled all the way to Europe, even though it was for research purposes, I wanted to spend at least one day wandering around. I wanted to visit somewhere nice within a day's trip from Munich, Germany, so I decided to extend my trip from Munich to the banks of the Danube River. If I remember correctly, I found the church while flipping through a guidebook and realized that I wanted to visit a church built on a cliff overlooking the banks of the Danube. When...
This research aimed to analyze the DNA sequences of resistance genes, including acetylcholinesterase, and to infer, from patterns of DNA variation, the selective pressures exerted by insecticides in the field as well as the natural selection pressures acting during population growth and under field environmental conditions. This was a topic that I personally found very interesting, and I believe it was well worth investigating. However, as I mentioned earlier, I was unfortunately unable to...
In the professor’s office at the university in Munich, I explained the results of the genetic research I had conducted at Tsukuba, focusing mainly on acetylcholinesterase, and described the kind of research I hoped to pursue in applying for a fellowship. He gave me many valuable suggestions, particularly about what I should include in my fellowship proposal. He also introduced me to several researchers who were then working in his laboratory and recommended a number of useful papers. In...
I was supposed to visit a professor’s office at a university in Munich. I tried to go to the address listed in my guidebook, but it seemed that the university had several buildings. I am not sure whether it was a different building or whether it had been newly relocated, but I discovered that the building where the professor’s office was located was at a different address from the one listed in the guidebook. In a panic, I asked a stranger walking down the street for directions, and it...