Prof. Mary Collins, Professor of Immunology Head of Division of Advanced Therapies, University College London and National Institute of Biological Standards and Control. Prof Collins is visiting OIST from May 11 to May15, 2015 as the President's Scholar In Residence.

Seminar: Prof. Michael J. Berry II from Princeton University talks on "Predictive Computations in the Primary Visual Cortex"

Join us for May's second Internal Seminar Series on May 15, from 17:30 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the G0 Cell Unit (Mitsuhiro Yanagida).

Speaker: Prof. Britt Hedman, SSRL and SLAC, Stanford University Title: Synchrotrons and X-ray Free Electron Lasers in Structural Biology – From “Slow” to “Ultrafast”

Mary Collins, Professor of Immunology, University College London; Head of Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control UK, recently retired as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences UCL, OIST President's Scholar In Residence

Seminar by Dr. Christian Biertümpfel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to invite you to a Special Lecture Series by Prof. Bruce Clemens (Stanford University, U.S.A) on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nanomaterials Synthesis.

Lecture 1 – Thermodynamics Review, Bond Counting and the Regular Solution Model, Chemical Potential

Professor Salvatore Federico, The University of Calgary

Join us for May's first Internal Seminar Series on May 1, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas M. Luscombe) and Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit (Keshav Dani).

Outside speakers: Dr Yoshihiro Arita (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Prof Etienne Brasselet (University of Bordeaux I, France) Dr Simon Hanna (University of Bristol, UK) Prof Jack Tsz Fai NG (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)