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Acknowledgement
November 8, 2019 was the day I first came to Japan to meet Prof. Fukagawa. We met
hastily and happily at the elevator at 7:00 p.m., and then the lab students kindly
invited me to dinner. This was my first impression of Japan and the Fukagawa Lab. I
felt the kindness of prof. Fukagawa and the enthusiasm of the lab members, and as a
foreigner coming to Japan for the first time, I was grateful for this warm and
reassuring start.
I was very happy to meet Ariyoshi-sensei, a teacher who took care of me like a family
member in school and life after that, for the first time on the first working day
afterwards, and I started to work on my doctoral thesis under the professional and
kind guidance of Prof. Fukagawa and Ariyoshi-sensei. Every day, the lab members
would chat with me kindly and gently. In such a process of getting along, I am
grateful that people are considerate like friends and make me feel like family.
All these warm memories are clear and beautiful, and now it seems like it happened
yesterday when I think about it. Time flies, and suddenly I was shocked to realize that
almost four years have passed since the first day I remembered.
There is a Japanese proverb that goes like this, ‘一期一会’. I love this quote and will
carry this state of mind, cherish the fate of meeting and getting along with everyone
here, and be grateful for all the kindness and goodness I encounter here in
Fukagawa-lab.
I would like to thank Prof. Fukagawa for recognizing and accepting me and giving me
the opportunity to receive the most professional guidance and advice in a cutting-edge
laboratory in the field of chromosome biology. I am also very grateful to Prof.
Fukagawa for all the help he has provided me over the years, and I have learned from
him and lab members the traits that a good researcher needs to have.
I would like to express my deep gratitude to Ariyoshi-sensei for her professional
guidance on the details of my experiments, and her and Prof. Fukagawa's excellent
academic ability for supporting me to better grasp the progress of my project.
Thanks to Hara-sensei, Hori-sensei, Takenoshita-sensei, Watanabe-san, Shreyas-san,
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Yamaguchi-san, Hirano-sansei, Fukui-san, Cao-san, Kong-san, Miao-san, Sha-san,
zhou-san and Li-san et al., for their kind and helpful academic guidance and help.
Thanks to Fukagawa-san, Oshimo-san, Fukuoka-san and Kubota-san for their
professional help in basic experiments, I have more time to focus on experimental
work.
Thanks to my old and new friends who have accompanied me on this journey of
growth over the years.
I would like to express my special thanks to Makino-san and all the seniors of Namba
lab who helped me to learn cryo-electron microscopy.
Finally, I would like to thank Ueda-sensei, Hirose-sensei and Okamoto-sensei for
their valuable comments and guidance on the defense of my doctoral dissertation. And
pecial thanks to the China scholarship council (CSC) scholarship for supporting my
life and research in Japan.
As my four years of valuable doctoral studies in Japan are coming to an end, this is
the last answer that I have seriously completed as a student. I am honored to have all
of you mentioned above or not mentioned above to witness my growth during this
journey.
I will face the rest of my life journey with more maturity and return to my loving
family who have always supported me and loved me deeply. And I look forward to
meeting you all in Japan again in the future!
Here, I look forward to being a contributing researcher in this path of scientific
research.
Grateful to meet, grateful to walk together.
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Achievement
PUBLICATION
1. Hong Hui Jiang, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tetsuya Hori, Reito Watanabe, Fumiaki
Makino, Keiichi Namba, Tatsuo Fukagawa. The cryo-EM structure of the CENP-A
nucleosome in complex with ggKNL2. EMBO J (Article). 2023;42(6):e111965.
doi:10.15252/embj.2022111965.
2. Hong Hui Jiang, Bo Li, Yue Ma, Su Ying Bai, Thomas D. Dahmer, Adrian Linacre,
Yan Chun Xu. Forensic Validation of a Panel of 12 SNPs for Identification of
Mongolian
Wolf
and
Dog.
Sci
Rep
10,
13249
(2020).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70225-5.
3. Honghui Jiang, Bo Li, Yue Ma, Yanchun Xu. Feasibility Analysis of Species
Identification of Dogs and Wolves by Partial Sequence of mtDNA Control Region.
Chinese Journal of Wildlife, 2018, 039(002):277-285.
POSTER PRESENTATION
1. 2022 The 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
(MBSJ)- poster presentation. Member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
2. 2021 The 44th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
(MBSJ)- poster presentation. Member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
ORAL PRESENTATION
2018 Excellent Academic Report, The Ninth Symposium on Animal Research and
Conservation in Northeast provinces, China.
AWARDS
1. 2021-2023 China Scholarship Council (CSC) Chinese Government Scholarship
2. 2018 Excellent Academic Report, The Ninth Symposium on Animal Research and
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Conservation in Northeast provinces, China.
MAIN CONTRIBUTION AS A CO-AUTHOR
I prepared materials and performed all biochemical experiments under supervision of
Dr. Mariko Ariyoshi; Dr. Mariko Ariyoshi, Dr. Fumiaki Makino and I performed all
cryo-EM experiments and Dr. Keiichi Namba helped cryo-EM single particle image;
Dr. Tetsuya Hori and Dr. Reito Watanabe performed DT 40 experiments; Prof. Tatsuo
Fukagawa supervised the entire project; I wrote this manuscript and Prof. Tatsuo
Fukagawa and Dr. Mariko Ariyoshi supervised my revision.
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