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.

・Ph.D. Students (semi-annual or more frequent oral presentations)
・Research fellows (semi-annual or more frequent oral presentations for those who fall under the speaker category described below)
・Faculty members (semi-annual or more frequent oral presentations for those who fall under the speaker category described below)
※Exceptions (one oral presentation per academic year) will be made for working graduate students and researchers/ students working in the Tokyo lab. Request for exceptions should be presented in writing on the Application Form for Participation.
・gCOE faculty members

Note:

• gCOE research assistants, gCOE instructors, gCOE research fellows, gCOE JSPS fellows are particularly expected to take an active role.
• People who are not on the gCOE program are allowed to participate with the permission from a gCOE faculty member working in the same laboratory or from the Young Scientist Training Committee (* See below for more information). All participants must protect strict confidentiality of the data presented at the seminar.
• Master's students must present their data at least once before finishing a master's degree. They are also expected to actively participate in the discussion during the seminar. Simply sitting in silence without any active participation is not acceptable.
•  Instead of a full scientific talk, visiting scientists working in a short-term position in a gCOE lab may give a shorter and less technical presentation: e.g. 10 minutes overview of their research including self-introduction.
• Technicians and administrative staffs who wish to attend the Seminar need to state motives for participation in Application Form. Oral presentations are not required.

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 AIDS gCOE Master's are expected to give a 25-minute presentation. For short-term visiting scientists, presentation time and format will be adjusted accordingly. 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.