The laboratories accepting students are indicated in the Inquiry Form, so please take a look at it.
Please note that the lists for the master/doctoral courses and for Schedule A/B may vary. Please make sure that you look the one for the course of your choice and for the schedule of your choice.
It depends. Ask the lab you wish to join.
Generally speaking, when the lab head is not a native speaker of Japanese, or when the proportion of foreign students is large, English is mainly used in the lab. When neither holds, Japanese is often mainly used in the lab.
Please directly contact the laboratory you wish to visit in person.
Yes. Visitors are always welcome.
Please discuss anything about your research plan before the end of the application period.
Applicants are not allowed to contact your prospective supervisor between the end of the application period and the release of the accepted applicants by our department.
If you are a research student, you have a right to attend the lab seminar or similar events as a research student, not as an applicant. However, your prospective supervisor may get fired if you step a bit out of research student. So, generally contacting the prospective supervisor between the end of application period and the public release of the list of the Third-Stage Successful Candidates should be avoided where possible.
If you are already enrolled in the University of Tokyo as an undergraduate student, you will be able to attend lectures, do your thesis research, etc. with a faculty member of the laboratory you wish to join. Contact may be unavoidable in such cases even after the end of application period. Undergraduate students have the right to attend lectures and to get guidance on their thesis research. In such cases, we do not prohibit contact as an undergraduate student. However, to ensure fairness between applicants, such undergrad students can contact supervisors only as a graduate student, in lectures, exams, thesis research, and other activities. Avoid one-on-one communication and only in the presence of a third party. Avoid having long conversations. If you need a lot of detailed assistance in thesis research, please ask someone in the lab who is not involved in the entrance exams, such as assistant professors or doctoral course students. The same principle applies to research students and people with other similar statuses.
Please be reminded that you cannot ask someone else (including students) in the lab you wish to join to take a look at your Inquiry Sheet for getting help/advice.
When you have enough time to do so, it would be better for you to contact your second-choice lab. However, what we ask you is to contact your first-choice lab in advance to your application.
It's okay to tell them. It is not uncommon for students to be assigned to the laboratory of their second or later choice, and there is nothing rude about it. If you still feel uneasy, you can choose not to tell it to them.
Yes. Once the department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences publicly release the list of the Third-Stage Successful Candidates, you are free to do anything.
Regardless of your major, you can apply to the Computational Biology group. Students from various backgrounds such as biology, pharmacology, medicine, mathematics, statistics, information science, and engineering have passed the entrance exam and successfully completed the program. There are also a small number of students who come from the so-called liberal arts. Since we are in an interdisciplinary field that integrates many academic disciplines, you will need to study many fields that you do not have a background knowledge after entering the program.
In general, you can take the entrance examination for a master's course even if you are from a very distant field. In the case of the doctoral course, the situation differs from laboratory to laboratory, and depending on your field of study, it may be difficult to complete the course on time, so we strongly recommend that you consult with the laboratory of your choice in advance.
