Internship report by Mr. Takeuchi - Global Communication Report #6
December 20, 2022
Global Communication Report #6
Our Graduate Schools of Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Medicine participates in the World-leading Innovative & Smart Education (WISE) program. The special curriculum in our WISE Program includes a variety of internships abroad. Graduate students in the program stay at international organizations, research institutes, and companies to engage in professional internships.
Hokkaido University WISE Program for One Health Frontier Graduate School of Excellence
https://onehealth.vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp/
In this issue, Mr. Hiroto Takeuchi, a third-year graduate student in our laboratory, reports on his internship activities.
＜Symbols of Uppsala: Uppsala Cathedral, A research facility of Uppsala University where I stayed, and a common space called Navet＞
I stayed at Uppsala University, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology (UUIGP) in Sweden from October 5 to 28 to experience industry-academia collaborative research at a research institution.
This internship was achieved thanks to the support of Dr. Ryoyo Ikebuchi, a graduate of our laboratory who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at UUIGP. During the internship, I stayed at two laboratories (PI: Dr. Ulf Landegren and Dr. Masood Kamali-Moghaddam) to which Dr. Ikebuchi belongs.
During my stay, I learned about the highly versatile and sensitive protein detection methods (PLA-RCA, sp PLA, and PEA) developed in the laboratories and tried to apply them to my own research. Since all of the methods I experienced are highly versatile and can detect proteins with higher sensitivity than the existing methods in our laboratory, I would like to challenge issues that I had previously given up due to sensitivity problems and utilize my knowledge and experience in various fields by actively sharing them.
Furthermore, through this internship, I experienced the working style in Sweden. In Sweden, people value their time with their families, and most of the members started coming to the office around 9:00 a.m. and went home by 6:00 p.m. In addition, there was an understanding of child-rearing and an attitude of balancing research and private life to conduct research efficiently.
On the first floor of the university facility, several start-up companies started by graduates of Ulf group based on patents they had obtained were in operation. Some of the lab members are working toward starting their own companies, and I was impressed by the business-oriented discussions that took place at the lab meetings. The university also had a department specializing in patents and was ready to support the filing of patents for start-ups. I felt that good ideas were born in such an environment. I will try to create an environment where I can have open discussions in my own research activities.
<Mr. Takeuchi in his activity report at our lab>
