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◆ Objectives The purpose of this Seminar is to provide an opportunity for students and young investigators to present their data in English. The program is designed to facilitate communications among young scientists/ students, sharpen critical thinking abilities, and expand their research through active participation in discussion.
◆ Schedule

Wednesdays, 12:00-13:00
There will be no seminar during the annual meetings of the Japanese Society for AIDS Research, the Japanese Society for Virology, and other relevant meetings. The schedule will be posted on the WYIS website.
◆ Location Center for AIDS Research, 2nd floor seminar room
◆ Commentators Commentators will provide written comments on the research presented. They are faculty members. Two commentators will be assigned for each seminar.
◆ Presentation Speakers are required to submit abstract to WYIS administrative staff one week before their presentations. Each speaker will have 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions and answers. The maximum time limit of 25 minutes in total per speaker will be strictly enforced. The first year Ph.D. students will have 15-20 minutes in total for their first presentation. However, those who advance from Master's are expected to give a 25-minute presentation. All presentations should be prepared with Microsoft PowerPoint. Speakers are encouraged to prepare handouts summarizing background information to assist participants’ understanding. However, handouts must not contain any unpublished experimental data for the purpose of confidentiality. In principle, each speaker should talk about his/her research. Speakers are permitted to broaden the contents of their presentation focusing on their research and experiments; for instance,“unfavorable/unsuccessful results” and “a proposal of new research/experiment. All speakers must provide sufficient background (roughly 5 minutes) before presenting their own data to make the research accessible to wider audience. If a speaker chooses to include more reviews to fill their time slot, he/she must relate the reviews to their research.
◆ Additional remarks
[1] Speakers should not exceed the 15-minute presentation time.
[2] Evaluation and comments will be fed back to presenters.
[3] We will have Main Discusser Groups consist of 6-7 speaker members each. Main Discusser Group members are required to take an active role in discussion. The members should ask question to a presenter(s) at least once on the day of their duty.
[4] For students, data presentation and participation in the seminar, including questions and answers, will affect their research-assistantship appointment in the next time.
[5] Data presented at the Seminar are strictly confidential. All participants must protect complete confidentiality.
[6] All participants are required to sign the Code of Practice on Confidentiality Agreement in advance.
 
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