Professor Michael Levine, the Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and professor of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, visited NIBB on January 15
th to 16
th 2019 to deliver a seminar and to meet with NIBB researchers. Prof. Levine’s visit was supported by the program of NINS’s International Research Collaboration Center (IRCC) to promote international academic exchange between NINS and Princeton University.
Prof. Levine gave a special seminar titled “Single cell resolution of animal development” to NIBB researchers.
In addition, Prof. Levine had discussions with several NIBB researchers and toured NIBB facilities to observe next-generation sequencers and a light-sheet microscope newly developed in NIBB.