After taking Ph.D. at 1981 in Kyushu University, I had been working at the University of Michigan, Medical School as postdoctoral researcher because of that I had no working position in Japan in those days.
I had been in Michigan up to 1985. During my stay in US, I had met miserable accidents such as be handcuffed by city police because of my usage of counterfeit money, be crashed my car by other car running from backward with high speed, be stolen my bag with my passport, and so on. Whenever I met such incredible accidents, I strongly felt to keep up my English. Owing to such precious experiences, I got any skills with me for troubleshooting in foreign countries.
Through my experience as associated professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering in Kyushu Institute of Technology, I was back to Kyushu University at 2000 with my current position. My major research field is bioinformatics. I should advice to the students that the first step is to go out to foreign countries without considering details and to study there and then they should determine what to do next for future life plan. I am in charge of executive director of this project with such expectation to the students. My hobby is cooking and singing many of the songs of AKB48; my most favorite member of AKB48 is Miss Yuko Ohshima
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My first international experience was to attend a scientific meeting held at Halifax, Canada, in 1990. It was exciting and great motivation for me to become a scientist. My international collaborations in the study field (comparative immunology) have been established during 1997-2000 by a few short visits to Florida International University (Miami, USA) and University of Oxford (UK), leading to my current collaboration network with people in USA, UK, The Netherlands, Canada, Spain and Philippines.
I am serving as a Vice Dean in charge of education of this faculty, involved not only in this program, but also in G30 Undergraduate International Course and other teaching affairs. I'm also interested in how the Kyushu University campus can be internationalized on various aspects such as education quality, facilities, information, and students' campus life.

Hi, everyone! I’m Mako Nakamura. I am in charge of the Project for Promotion of Global Human Resource Development.
I should talk about my home town to introduce myself at first but because my family moved frequently when I was a child I don’t have a place to call my own hometown. I was born in Osaka, moved to Tokyo in 10 month and lived there till I graduate the elementary school. I spent my junior and junior high school days in Hiroshima, went to the university in Tokyo and earn my Master and Doctor’s degree in Osaka. After that I lived in Pennsylvania, East Coast in the U.S., then Massachusetts, and now live here in Fukuoka.
I experienced internship at P&G in the U.S. for 2 months when I was in the first year of the master's program and engaged in post-doctoral research for 5 years after I completed my doctorates. After that I came back to Japan and have worked at Kyushu University for 7 years by this year(2013.). I hope you all get to know the pleasure to study abroad through this project.

After completion of a Ph.D. degree at Kyushu University, and working at RIKEN as a postdoctoral fellow, I worked at Kansas State University in the United States for 15 years.
The 21st century is the era of agriculture. In United States, Wagyu (Japanese beef) is a top-brand beef at restaurant. In eastern Asian countries, fruits from Japan are popular as a premium brand. But through these opportunities, there are many problems as well. Political instability and an increase in population lead to food shortages in several developing countries. This is even occurring in Japan itself, whose self sufficiency in food supply is low, relying heavily on international producers.
Kyushu University students are demanded ever to interact with the world and contribute in order to solve these issues.Let’s work together to prepare yourself for the next stage.