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Programs for Junior Scientists

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science actively provides training programs with the aim of fostering talented personnel and the next generation of scientists.

CSRS Graduate Student Training Program

The CSRS Graduate Student Training Program (CSRS-GSTP) was launched in April 2020 for graduate students enrolled in the CSRS. Under the supervision of CSRS, this program aims to identify and foster talented young scientists capable of contributing to the advancement of science for the future.

Season5 (2024)

GSTP1: Doctor Students, total 4
GSTP2: Doctor Students, total 3
GSTP3: Doctor Students, total 8
GSTP4: Doctor and Master Students, total 22
GSTP5: Doctor, Master and Bachelor Students, Total 16

  1. Sustainable Resource Science / Introduction of CSRS-GSTP
  2. How to do a scientific presentation
  3. Career seminar by a young researcher
  4. Presentation by GSTP 1st student
  5. Presentation by GSTP 1st student
  6. Career Seminar by RIKEN ECL Team Leader

Season4 (2023)

GSTP1: Doctor Students, total 4
GSTP2: Doctor Students, total 3
GSTP3: Doctor and Master Students, total 8
GSTP4: Doctor and Master Students, total 31

  1. Sustainable Resource Science / Introduction of CSRS-GSTP
  2. How to do a scientific presentation
  3. Students’ presentation 1
  4. Students’ presentation 2
  5. Career seminar by a young scientist
  6. Presentation of your career plans and open discussion 1
  7. Presentation of your career plans and open discussion 2

Season3 (2022)

GSTP1: Doctor Students, total 4
GSTP2: Master Students, total 11
GSTP3: Doctor and Master Students, total 13
  1. Introduction of CSRS-GSTP
  2. Sustainable Resource Science
  3. So you wanna be a researcher?
  4. Beginner's guide for presentation
  5. Students’ presentation
  6. Students’ presentation
  7. Challenges to create new functional biomass-based polymeric materials
  8. Accelerating Biomanufacturing Engineering Biology
  9. How I became a scientist - A journey to science

Season2 (2021)

GSTP1: Master Students, total 13
GSTP2: Master Students, total 11
  1. (GSTP1) Discussion about CSRS seminar
    (GSTP2) Introduction CSRS-GSTP
  2. (GSTP1) Flow Chemistry
    (GSTP2) About Sustainable Resource Science Center
  3. (GSTP1) Increasing biological productivity through the integration of bio x digital
    (GSTP2) So you wanna be a researcher
  4. How to do presentation
  5. GSTP1 Students’ presentation
  6. GSTP2 Students’ presentation
  7. Pursuing a Dream of Organic Chemistry Research in Japan
  8. The World of Lipids and Development
  9. Design of Biomolecular Functions using Artificial Molecules

Season1 (2020)

GSTP1: Master Students, total 13
  1. Introduction
  2. So you wanna be a researcher?
  3. Sustainable Resource Science
  4. Metabolic Physiology of Plants Revealed by Metabolome Analysis
  5. Research Readiness
  6. Potential and Challenges of Bioplastics
  7. Plant Chemical Biology
  8. How to be happy through research on biopolymers
  9. What is a biofunctional catalyst?
  10. Self-created training programs

Joint Graduate Schools

  • Graduate School of Medical Life Science / Graduate School of Nanobioscience (Kihara Institute for Biological Research), Yokohama City University
  • Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
  • Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences / Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
  • Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University
  • Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  • School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Medical Research Institute, Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Graduate School of Science, Rikkyo University
  • Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
  • Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Graduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University
  • Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba

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