Genetics Progress

This series of course curriculum offers students suggestions and support from faculty members outside their host labs and helps students to grow as an independent researcher. In these courses, progress committee members, who are specialists of other research fields, provide comments on student’s research projects and advice on presentations and publications of their research. The progress committee can also offer various help to students: solve problems they are facing during their academic life; prepare for the future career; provide objective opinions to break a deadlock in research; mediate a conflict of opinions inside and outside the lab; etc.

Overview of Genetics Progress

The activities and assignments differ depending on the grade year. By completing each assignment of the entire curriculum one by one, students develop their research ability and skills that are necessary to become an independent researcher. From the D1 year to the D5 year, students are engaged in one main event per year with specific objectives. They also make one poster presentation every year (except for the D5 year); students thus have an opportunity to report their individual research progresses every 6 months.

Please click the contents in the table and look over the syllabus.

Grade year		D1		D2		D3		D4		D5
Progress		IA	IB	IIA	IIB	IIIA	IIIB	IVA	IVB	VA	VB
Time	April enrollee	Jun-Jul	Final Thu Feb	Final Thu Aug	Dec-Jan	Jun-Jul	Final Thu Feb	May-Jun	Final Thu Feb	Jun-Jul	Nov
	October enrollee	Dec-Jan	Final Thu Aug	Final Thu Feb	Jun-Jul	Dec-Jan	Final Thu Aug	11-12月	Final Thu Aug	Dec-Jan	May
Content		one-to-one interview	poster presentation	poster presentation	D2 report open presentaion	one-to-one interview	poster presentation	D4 report closed meeting	poster presentation	NIG colloqium	pre-exam of phD thesis manuscript
The number of committee members		1		3		1		4		4

Selection of Progress Committee Members

The Progress Committee Chair must be a professor or an associate professor in the Genetics Course and should be selected in consultation with your supervisor. The Progress Committee Chair also serves as a sub-supervisor. The formal role for the sub-supervisor is to replace the supervisor in the case that the person can no longer supervise the student due to unforeseen circumstances. When advancing to D2 or D4, please select the required number of Progress Committee members as designated. Faculty members affiliated with the Center for Frontier Research and assistant professors may serve as members of the Progress Committee, but are not eligible to serve as the Chair.

When selecting Progress Committee members, including the Committee Chair, please be sure to obtain consent from each faculty member.

Postponement or Cancellation of Genetics Progress

If a student wants to decline or postpone a progress for some reasons, they must contact the progress chair and the General Affairs/Education team. Only when the progress committee gives a special permission, a student can obtain credits for the Life Science Progress with alternative assignments or activities such as an individual interview or a report submission.