2014 Report(Go Abroad)

Period of Dispatch/Acceptance

2014.11.25 – 2014.11.27

Outline of the joint research

We plan to collaborate and develop research in the field of Nanobiotechnology and Natural products targeting cancers.
We are working with Virus like particles (VLPs) and Cordycepin production using silkworms at Shizuoka University and Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi and Dr. Yubaraj Pokharel are involved in research related to cancer at South Asian University.

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

South Asian University (SAU) is founded by 8 countries (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal) belong to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). SAU started its operations from the academic year 2010. The university now offers post-graduate and doctoral programmes in various disciplines that include Development Economics, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Mathematics, Sociology, International Relations and Law. The University is currently functioning from Akbar Bhawan Campus in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi before it eventually moves in to its 100 acre campus in Maidan Garhi, South Delhi where the construction is starting very soon.
Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi and Dr. Yubaraj Pokharel are assistant professors at SAU in Life sciences and Biotechnology department. From my personal contacts with Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi I was invited to SAU to interact with other faculty members.

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi and Dr. Yubaraj Pokharel, assistant professors at SAU in Life sciences and Biotechnology department arranged a series of meeting with different faculty members from life science and Biotechnology department thus providing opportunity to explain goals and vision of Shizuoka University (SU). This was the first contact of SU with SAU hence meeting with different faculty members was important. I also met President of SAU Dr. Kavita A Sharma and Vice-president Prof. Rajiv K Saxena and had fruitful discussion about SAU and SU future collaborations. Both supported the idea of SU working with many SAARC member countries universities and SAU in tandem. Based on this discussion I invited Dr. Ravi Shankar Akundi and Dr. Yubaraj Pokharel, assistant professors at SAU in Life sciences and Biotechnology department along with their students (4) to SU to attend 26th January, 2015 International Workshop on “Green Science and Technology of Global Young Researchers” in Shizuoka campus.

What is your opinion
about this exchange program ?

This exchange program has been good and it provided a good opportunity to make first contact with SAU. SAU funded by SAARC can become a great university providing research and education benefits to SAARC member countries and Shizuoka University can play a vital role by being related with SAU.

What kind of impression do you have of that country ?

SAU funded by SAARC can become a great university as SAARC countries around the Indian continent have a population of more than 1.5 billion people out of which more than half are young. These young people need education and they can play important role in their countries.

How did you think about the joint research ?

SAU is a new university with new young faculty members and research collaborations in the new emerging field can be beneficial for SU. Also young researchers from developing SAARC member countries will get the opportunity to pursue further research and education opportunities in SU.

From this program, what impact you expect on your future research career ?

Due to this program I now believe firmly that SU should increase its foot print in India which has many young researchers. I hope many young researchers come to SU for further research and collaborations leading to development of science.

Period of Dispatch / Acceptance

2015.01.31 – 2015.02.07

Outline of the joint research

The 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN- 2015) was held at SRM University, Chennai, India. This conference was jointly organized by SRM University (India), Shizuoka University (Japan) and GNS (New Zealand). More than 3,000 persons including students of the SRM University attended the conference and more than 250 persons presented at the conference. From the Shizuoka University, 8 professors (H.Mimura, K.Murakami, H.Inokawa, H.Suzuki, N.Wakiya, J.Kondoh, M.Daniel and Y.Hayakawa) and 4 researchers (A.Samanta, T.Ajay, M.Navaneethan and J.Archana) delivered the talks and made chair at the conference. Famous professors such as Prof.S.Iijima, an inventor of the carbon nanotube, participated in the conference. It was a very effective conference.

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

SRM University (established in 1985) is a top-ranking private university with more than 38,000 students in India. There are faculties of Engineering & Technology, Medicine & Health Science, Science & Humanities, and Management. SRM University is an important partner university for Shizuoka University with several collaborative programs such as MOU, Double Degree Program, Asia Bridge Program and exchange of faculties and students.

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Prof.Y.Hayakawa’s group has been making a collaborative reserach with Prof.C.Muthamizchelvan and Prof.S.Ponnusamy and published more than 30 research papers in the referred international journals. Prof.C.Muthamizchelvan and Prof.S.Ponnusamy are appointed as an honorable guest professor of the Research Institute of Electronics (RIE), and Prof.Y.Hayakawa is appointed as a visiting professor of the SRM University. Dr.M.Navaneethan and Dr.J.Archana graduated from the doctor course of the Shizuoka University and are selected as JSPS postdoctoral fellows. The International Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (ICONN 2013) was jointly organized by SRM University and RIE in 2013, and this INCONN-2015 is the third international conference jointly organized by SRM University and Shizuoka University. Five students and one professor visited Shizuoka University using Short Stay Short Visit (SSSV) Program.

Progress by this program

Prof. H.Mimura, Director of RIE and Prof.T.R.Pachamuthu, Chancellor of SRM University exchanged the Certificates of the Double Degree Program (DDP) at the conference. During the conference, Prof.Y.Hayakawa, Prof.J.Kondoh and Prof. D.Moraru introduced the outline of Shizuoka University, current status of research, facilities and Asia Bridge Program (ABP). The participants visited the research laboratories and facilities at SRM University and discussed on the collaborative research topics with staffs and students.

Period of Dispatch / Acceptance

2015.01.31 – 2015.02.07

Outline of the joint research

A collaborative conference held in SRM university, Chennai, India entitled “3rd International conference on Nanoscience and nanotechnology (ICONN-2015)” on 4-6th February 2015.

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

SRM University, Chennai, India

SRM University is one of the top ranking private universities in India with over 38,000 students and more than 2600 faculty across all the campus, offering a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Health sciences, Science and Humanities. They offer a wide choice for the student of cutting-edge programs including nanotechnology, bioinformatics, genetic engineering, remote sensing and GIS, embedded systems or computer forensics. Most of these courses are offered in close collaboration with foreign universities.

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

I participated in the conference as an invited speaker and presented my recent research work entitled “Interaction between Dopant Atoms and Interface in Nanoscale Transistors”. I also visited several laboratories of SRM University along with the group of Shizuoka University to look an overall research environment in that university. This gave me an impressive experience with their infrastructure.

Progress by this program

Two MOUs have been sanctioned between Shizuoka university and SRM University. Asia Bridge Program and Double Degree Program have been introduced. In Asia Bridge Program, some students from SRM university can be benefited to do their MS degree in Shizuoka University. In case of Double Degree Program, a student can get dual Ph.D. degree, each from both universities. This is very good project.

Future developments

I really hope that we “Shizuoka University and SRM university ”will succeed for long term collaborative project. In future, I may directly collaborate with some laboratories in the SRM University like nanotechnology group. In that case, a strong collaboration could be developed and some joint research can be performed. Thus, I think that it is a very good step to start such project by tacking this conference as a platform.

Period of Dispatch / Acceptance

2015.01.31 – 2015.02.07

Outline of the joint research

The 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2015) was held at SRM University, Chennai, India. This conference was jointly organized by SRM University (India), Shizuoka University (Japan) and GNS (New Zealand). As a partner of this conference, sveral professors and researchers of the Shizuoka University participated in the conference and delivered the talks.

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

SRM University is a top-ranking private university with more than 38,000 students perusing their respective programs. The SRM university is actively doing research and education with global standard. SRM University is an important partner for Shizuoka University with several collaborative programs such as student exchange, Double Degree Program (DDP) and Asia Bridge Program (ABP).

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Prof. Hayakawa’s group has making collaborative research with Prof. C. Muthamizchelvan and Prof. S. Ponnusamy of SRM University and jointly published more than 30 research papers in the international journals. This is the third international conference jointly organized by SRM University and Shizuoka University. A team of students of SRM University visited Shizuoka University using Short Stay Short Visit (SSSV) Program. This kind of joint research themes promotes the quality and broader visibility of Shizuoka University to the international community.

Progress by this program

During the conference, Prof. Hidenori Mimura, Director of Research Institute of Electronics and Prof. T.R. Pachamuthu, Chancellor of SRM University exchanged the Certificates of DDP between Shizuoka University and SRM University. Prof. Yasuhiro Hayakawa, Prof. Jun Kondoh and Associate Prof. Daniel Moraru introduced the outline of Shizuoka University, current status of research, facilities and initiation of ABP. We visited the research facilities at SRM University and interacted with staffs and students.

Future developments

This program enabled us to have strong collaboration with SRM University. We will try to strengthen our relationship to next-level by continuing the collaborative projects and visiting professors scheme for both sides. I hope the Shizuoka University and SRM University can lead the role of collaboration between Japan and India.

I visited Faculty of Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) on Oct. 5-7, 2015, and presented about introduction of GSST, Shizuoka University. We discussed about MoU between GSST & Fac. Engineering, BUET, and the MoU was accepted by the dean of the faculty. We discussed about education of young researchers and students of the both universities. I met with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Khaleda Ekram and introduced about Shizuoka University. I also visited laboratories of Dept. Physics, Dept. of Glass & Ceramics, Dept. Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, BUET-Japan Institute for Disaster Prevention & Urban Safety.

• Fac. Engineering, BUET, Professor
• Md. Abu Hashan Bhuiyan
• Fac. Engineering, BUET, Associate Professor
• Md. Forhad Mina
• Fac. Engineering, BUET, Lecturer
• Mohammad Jellur Rahman

• I will try to accepting DC students from BUET. Applications of scholarships should be considered.
• Wider communications between Shizuoka Univ. and BUET will be planned to obtain the MoU between the two universities.
• I will PR about BUET to many stuffs in Shizuoka Univ.

Period of Dispatch/Acceptance

2015.2.28 – 2015.3.9

Outline of the joint research

• Genome analyses of microbes with specific metabolic functions
• Comparisons of microbial community (metagenomics analyses) in different points of marine
• Development of shuttle plasmid vectors available in different bacterial classes
• Development of fermentation process of unused biomass.

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

• Faculty of Science, Kasetsert University (KU), Associate Professor, Dr. Vichien Kipreechavanich
• Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University (CU) , Assistant Professor, Dr. Onruthai Pinyakong
• Faculty of Science, Burapa University (BU), Associate Professor, Dr. Jittima Charoenpanich
• Faculty of Science, Srinakharinwirot University (SU), Assistant Professor, Dr. Yui Peechapack
• Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), vise President/Associate professor, Dr. Kornkanok Aryusuk

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Dr. Shintani has been involved in Thailand-Japan collaborating program of JSPS program (NRCT) between CU and The University of Tokyo (2014-2017, head, Prof. H. Nojiri)．We held the 1st Symposium of NRCT-JSPS joint research program at CU in 3rd June, 2014.
Dr. Kimbara has been involved in CCCP (Yamaguchi University) collaborating with Dr. Kipreechavanich (KU) for more than 10 years. Dr. Kimbara accepted several Ph.D. students from Dr. Kipreechavanich’s lab.

Progress by this program

We held Thailand-Japan Joint Symposium “Young Scientist Seminar” with reserachers and students of CU, KU, SU, and Shizuoka University at KU in 5th March, 2015 by this program. We had seminars in BU and KMUTT in addition to the above three universities. We also discussed with head of department of microbiology in CU for the double degree systems with Shizuoka University.

Future developments

We will collaborate with researchers in CU for genomic and metagenomics analyses of microbes.
Shuttle plasmid vectors developed in Shizuoka University will be useful for the Thai researchers.
Fermentation process of unused biomass will be applicable in Thailand.

Outline of the joint research

Physical properties and quantum oscillation in strongly correlated electron system (SCES)

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

• Dr. Malte Grosche
  Physical properties under pressure and magnetic field in SCES
• Dr. Suchitra Sebastian
  Quantum oscillation at high magnetic fields in SCES
• Dr. Mike Sutherland
  Quantum oscillation at low temperature and magnetic fields in SCES

Period of Dispatch/Acceptance

2014.10.28 – 2014.11.2

Outline of the joint research

Dynamics of agrochemicals in the soil of tea field of Japan and the influence of the chemicals on microbes

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

Technische Universität Braunschweig. Professor Robert Kreuzig
Prof. Kreuzig studies residue analysis of agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals in agricultural field.

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Susen Hartung, Masahide Iwasaki, Naoto Ogawa, Robert Kreuzig. Laboratory tests on sorption and transformation of the insecticide flubendiamide in Japanese tea field soil. Science of the Total Environment. Vol. 443, p.904-909 (2013)

Progress by this program

Planning for progress of joint research, expecially on the field study of dynamics of agrochemicals in the soil of tea field

Future developments

Joint research on the dynamics of agrochemicals in tea field by sampling the actual tea filed soil.

What is your opinion about this exchange program?

I visited Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) to discuss future plan about the Japan-US collaboration research and present status of the unique facilities, Tritium Plasma Experiment (TPE) device and Safety and Tritium Applied Research (STAR) facility at INL, and high temperature permeation device at SNL. In addition, I visited Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) to study about the development of nuclear power plant from the tour for EBR-1. In both laboratories, I have made presentations about our recent research activities using hydrogen retention behavior for neutron irradiated tungsten.

What kind of impression do you have of that country ?

What I have been impressed was the larger scale of various facilities compared to that of Japan. In particular, I have been surprised that the STAR facility is located far away from Idaho Falls town, and the operation of the facilities is based on that safety is the first priority. I stayed in Idaho Falls and San Francisco during this trip. I found big differences between two cities. In Idaho, there was almost nothing near INL, but in San Francisco, these were many houses people live in. In addition, I was surprised at a lot of differences in lifestyle because this was my first overseas travel. I thought this exchange program was a big chance for me to know about foreign laboratories, applied studies, customs, cultures and manners. I really appreciate for their kind hospitality during my visit to both laboratories.

What is your opinion about this exchange program?

I had a lot of precious experiences in laboratory tours and presentations of my experiments in Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). I think this exchange program is a big chance for me to know about foreign laboratories, applied studies, customs, cultures and manners.

What kind of impression do you have of that country ?

Unlike a laboratory of Japan, INL is located in the place far from the residential area, which allows us to handle the large amount of radioactive materials in the facility. But I found that the safety concern is the first priority.
On the other hand, although it depends on areas, in general San Francisco downtown where I saw a lot of tourists and street musicians looked freedom.

Period of Dispatch/Acceptance

2015.3.15 – 2015.3.21

Outline of the joint research

Physical Properties in Strongly Correlated Electron System at high magnetic fields

Name and characteristic of partner organization and researcher

• Luis Balicas: Researcher of National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Florida State University
• Stanley Tozer: Researcher of National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Florida State University

Results obtained in joint research until today.
( Ex. co-writing paper, joint symposium)

Base results were already published in Phys. Rev. B 90, 155101 (2014) whose authors are B. Zeng, Q. R. Zhang, D. Rhodes, Y. Shimura, D. Watanabe, R. E. Baumbach, P. Schlottmann, T. Ebihara, and L. Balicas