Events

RISP2025

It is scheduled to take place at IMS, RIKEN Yokohama Campus, in June 2025.

The first international summer program was held at IITU in 2019. The second summer program was scheduled for 2020 at IMS, but it had to be suspended for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we were able to hold an international summer program, the RIKEN-Tsinghua International Summer Program (RISP) at IMS in June 2023.

Report of RISP2023

Lecture Course: June 26-28, 2023
RIKEN IMS-JSI International Symposium on Immunology 2023: June 29-30, 2023

Program description

This program aims to provide young scientists with the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge immunology and related areas such as genomic medicine, disease system biology, and bioinformatics. The agenda consists of lectures by internationally distinguished scientists in these fields, and oral and poster presentations by each participant.

Thirty-two Ph.D. students and young post-doctoral fellows participated in the lecture course at the RIKEN facility in Yokohama and RIKEN IMS-JSI International Symposium on Immunology in the Tokyo area.

RISP 2023 was not completely open. Some of the participants were accepted from successful applicants to RISP2020, while others were selected through recommendations from certain research institutions related to the RIKEN IMS.

Lecturers

Andrea Ablasser (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland)
Hongbo Chi (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA)
Chen Dong (Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University, China)
David A. Hafler (Yale School of Medicine, USA)
Ken J. Ishii (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Laura Mackay (The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia)
Hiroshi Ohno (RIKEN IMS, Japan)
Taku Okazaki (Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Soumya Raychaudhuri (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)
Michal Schwartz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Chikashi Terao (RIKEN IMS, Japan)
Li Wu (Institute for Immunology, Tsinghua University, China)

Program information

RISP2023 consisted of two parts: a lecture course, and a two-day scientific symposium.

Lecture Course: June 26-28, 2023
Lectures by internationally distinguished scientists (12 lectures)
Poster presentations and short talks by each participant (32 participants)

Venue: IMS, RIKEN Yokohama Campus
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan
https://www.ims.riken.jp/english/about/access.php

RIKEN IMS-JSI International Symposium on Immunology 2023: June 29-30, 2023
The Symposium is a series of annual conferences hosted by RIKEN IMS in conjunction with the Japanese Society for Immunology (JSI).
https://www.ims.riken.jp/events/rcaisymp/2023/index_ja.html

Venue: Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, the University of Tokyo, Japan
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyou-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/adm/iirc/en/access.html

Application guidelines

Eligibility
Applicants must be either Ph.D. students or young post-doctoral fellows

Application procedure

The following documents are required for RISP2023 applications. Please download Application Form A and Consent Form (if necessary) from the link below, and submit all the required documents by January 13, 2023, 5 PM (JST).
https://genomec.gsc.riken.jp/gerg/owncloud/index.php/s/2Muvswn9e1ZI4k2

1. Application Form A
Please do not modify the template.
Please name the file as “Firstname_Lastname_A_MonthDay” and submit it in EXCEL format.
Example: John_Smith_A_1223.xlsx

Please submit 2 (and 3 if applicable) in a single PDF file titled
"Firstname_Lastname_B_MonthDay".
Example: John_Smith_B_0105.pdf

2. Letter of Recommendation
A signed recommendation letter from the applicant's supervisor, addressed to the “RISP2023 Organizing Committee”.

3. Consent Form (EU and UK residents only)
To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), RIKEN is required to obtain your consent in collecting personal data. Please sign the consent form and submit it to us.

When your application documents are ready, please let us know. We will make an upload site for you and let you know. After uploading your documents, please inform us (risp2023[at]ml.riken.jp) that you have uploaded them. We will send you an e-mail to confirm receipt of your application.

Expenses

Lodging
The RISP Organizers arranged accommodations for all participants at the JR-East Hotel Mets Yokohama Tsurumi. RIKEN covered all lodging expenses for a total of 6 nights (check-in on June 25 and check-out on July 1).
JR-East Hotel Mets Yokohama Tsurumi: https://www.hotelmets.jp/en/tsurumi/
*Cancellation policy
Cancellations after May 25 will incur a cancellation fee, which will be charged to the participant who cancels. There are no exceptions to this policy for any reason, including personal emergencies.

Travel
Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses (round-trip airfare and ground transportation) and for making travel arrangements. Travel in Japan before or after RISP2023 is permitted but participants must arrive at the JR-East Hotel Mets Yokohama Tsurumi on the evening of June 25 and remain in Yokohama for the entire program.

Meals
Participants are responsible for their own meals throughout the program.

Organizers

Taishin Akiyama, Tomohiro Kurosaki (RIKEN)
Yun-Cai Liu (Tsinghua University)

Contact

RISP2023 Secretariat
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan
E-mail: risp2023[at]ml.riken.jp
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