Education

Our aim is that each student forges their own identity as a researcher and becomes a world-class, prospective researcher upon completion of the PhD course. For this reason, we believe that it is very important not only to pursue the assigned subjects for the dissertation, but also to identify new challenges and research subjects independently and to develop the capabilities to solve them.

Recruitment of graduate students

If you are interested in joining the Mizushima lab (as a master student, PhD student, or international student researcher), please contact Prof. Mizushima (nmizu<at>m.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by the end of March of the year of the entrance examination.
We accept two master students (maximum) and a few doctoral students per year.

Actual Activities

Weekly lab meeting (Tuesday or Wednesday morning): consisting of data progress reports (by about 4 people) and journal club + group discussion
Monthly meeting: individual meetings with the professor
Biannual academic-style presentation meeting (March and September): all members participate

Additional activities:

Monthly joint seminars with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
About three times per year: joint seminars with autophagy-related laboratories from universities within Bunkyo Ward

You may be the right person for our lab if you are someone who:

is adventurous and likes to discover new things without extreme worry or unease (*1)
is not emotionally affected by observed data and conducts research in a steady and calm manner
has a rich imagination while being a keen observer
has a great deal of interest in cells as well as the entire body
likes to write (*2)
was good at mathematics and physics in high school (*3)
obsesses over ‘numbers’
desires to make things abstracted and generalized
is lucky (to be exact, is a person who seizes lucky opportunities)

※１ An appropriate level of doubt is acceptable and expected
※２ Writing skills are more valuable than speaking
※３ It is not a big deal even if biology was not a favorite subject