Message From NIG Interns 2008


Meenal Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) Kakutani Lab.
Kakutani Lab
When I attended presentation by NIG professors at my institute the only words which I remembered after a long time before applying for this internship were a retro-transposon, Arabidopsis and name Prof. Tetsuji Kakutani. After getting selected for the internship program I was very excited about my projects which I will completely start into a different field naming Epigenetic: without changing DNA sequence controls gene expression. I worked on two different projects and learned to correlate two different works. Initially the work was very similar to Molecular Biology work but later on as the time went I also stepped into Developmental Biology. I was given complete freedom to decide the further plans once I completed the initial part of my project. I came up with few ideas and when I get chance to test my ideas I felt more confident about myself.
I got to learn that whenever there is a failure in science that means there is something which is required to change for success, you just need to correct the things in logical manner and change few steps to get the positive result. It was amazing to score the phenotypes of plants which I havenft ever think off can be a phenotype. I got a lot of chance to attain talks of very eminent speakers from country and abroad also poster session by institute students giving me great experience of problems being studied in science through out the world.

It was great for being a part of culture which is very different from rest of the world through various activities with lab members. I admire NIG a lot for giving importance for education a lot, which made me to learn Japanese language very exciting and very different. I worked with very cooperative and friendly researchers who made you feel so comfortable that even if you are new to place, lab and field you will very comfortable in doing your research. NIG encourage a lot doing research even in other universities in Japan, with the help of NIG administration team I was able to visit one lab in Tokyo University in which I was very interested in learning the research work. In short it was great to know so many people and earn their friendship along with getting full freedom to work in a helpful and healthy environment.
 
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