Scientific Program of The 20 th International CODATA Conference

Contributed Sessions on Human Science Integration and its Synthetic Research Methodology was held during the conference.

Contributed Sessions on Human Science Integration and its Synthetic Research Methodology was held during the conference.

The purpose of this organized dual session is to embody research community and knowledge base towards human science integration, through encouraging interaction among researchers of different research fields related to human science and technology. We discuss the synthetic research methodology which is necessary for human science integration. The focus is on the physical and mental bases of human through integrating data and knowledge at all scales in diverse research fields which include but not be limited to: neuroinformatics, neurophysiology, neuroengineering, brain imaging, cognitive science, psychology, healthcare, and welfare technology. The goal of this session is to discuss how we can integrate human science so that we can solve the problem of human i.e., diseases, disorders and improve our daily life. CODATA is the society for effective sharing of scientific data, and we would like to explore the effective sharing of knowledge of human. Holistic research field on human like traditional Chinese medicine would give us suggestion. Of course, neuroscience and neuroinformatics are interdisciplinary research fields. We would like to discuss human science integration through integrating eastern and western perspective.

Bibliography: John Wilbanks, Knowledge Reuse and Community Integration: A Semantic Web of Neuroscience. In Proceedings of the 20th CODATA International Conference, pp. 124, 2006.

The Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (IMCB) was established in 1993 by reorganizing the Institute of Applied Microbiology (IAM) that was founded in 1953.
As an institute affiliated with the University of Tokyo, IMCB currently has about 150 students from 6 different graduate schools in the university, i.i. Agriculture, Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Frontier Sciences. Thus, IMCB functions as a center for mixing different disciplines of biological sciences. IMCB also accepts many post doctoral fellows supported either by the government or by private companies, and actively collaborates with various outside research groups.

The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. It offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and provides research facilities for these disciplines. The University aims to provide its students with opportunities for intellectual development as well as for the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills.

The University organization consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, 9 faculties, and 15 graduate schools. The 9 faculties are Law, Medicine, Engineering, Letters, Science, Agriculture, Economics, Education , and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The traditional 11 graduate schools are Law and Politics, Medicine, Engineering, Humanities and Sociology, Science, Agricultural and Life Sciences, Economics, Arts and Sciences, Education, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Mathematical Sciences.

In the past decade the University saw the establishment of 4 new pioneering graduate schools: Frontier Sciences, Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Information Science and Technology, and Public Policy.