On the last day of March, Kurumi Nishimagi from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, visited the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Architecture at the NICR, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. At her home institution she is involved in research within the Usage of Synchrotron Light for Life Science programme, focusing, among others, on mechanisms of functional regulation of the genome and their application to the control of genomic functions.
During her Ph.D. studies, Kurumi Nishimagi started to study the phenomenon of phase separation in the regulation of gene expression, a topic that is also intensively addressed by the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Architecture under the direction of Martin Sztach. It was this scientific overlap that led the ambitious young scientist to apply for a six-month research internship at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, for which she secured the necessary funding herself through a Japanese provider. She has now arrived in Prague to discuss the conditions and specific details of the research internship.
"We are glad that Kurumi chose our laboratory out of all the world's workplaces. I see it as a confirmation of our efforts to operate in an international environment and contribute to research with a global reach. I am very pleased that we seem to be succeeding in this. At the same time, we are thrilled to be able to participate in the formation of this young scientist with great potential–who knows, it may lead to closer cooperation with Japanese colleagues in the future in the framework of a bilateral project," added Martin Sztacho about her visit.
