Others

Invited talks, committees, teaching, and other activities outside research.

Invited talks2

  • 2025/12/18Sakai SA, Vandenbon A. Getting to know, learning, and using spatial transcriptomics. AJACS data-analysis workshop, National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC), Japan Science and Technology Agency (materials, video (TogoTV); in Japanese)
  • 2025/3/2Sakai SA. JSPS Research Fellowship seminar: my own experience (n = 1) and what comes next. Joint JSPS fellowship seminar of eight young researchers' associations, online (link; in Japanese)

Committeessociety and meeting organization

  • 2024 –Board member, Young Researchers' Association for Bioinformatics (Seimei-joho-kagaku Wakate no Kai) (link)
  • 2023Program committee member, IIBMP2023 (12th Joint Conference on Informatics in Biology, Medicine and Pharmacology) (link)
  • Chair and organizer, EPOC human-resource development seminars, National Cancer Center

Articlesnewsletters and press

  • 2026/1Ohira M, Kurihara K, Sakai SA, Tahara Y, Minei R. Report on the young researchers' session “Bioinformatics Research Collaboration Guild”. Newsletter of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, 48:14-16 (in Japanese)

Teachingteaching assistant

  • 2023/12/22Teaching assistant, UTokyo DSTEP Drug-Discovery Data Science Practicum @NCC EPOC
  • 2023/12/15Teaching assistant, UTokyo DSTEP Drug-Discovery Data Science Practicum @IMSUT
  • 2023/9/2 –Teaching assistant, Data Science Human Resource Development Seminar, National Cancer Center Hospital East
  • 2023/1/10 – 3/28Teaching assistant, Cancer Informatics Seminar: AI / machine learning boot camp for beginners, National Cancer Center Hospital East (link)
  • 2022/12/9Teaching assistant, UTokyo DSTEP Drug-Discovery Data Science Practicum (online) (DSTEP)

Journal clubBI seminar @National Cancer Center

Chapters I presented in the lab's reading group (Japanese textbooks; titles in Japanese).