Sarah Caplin is a TV executive with more than 30 years of broadcasting experience in factual programme production at BBC TV and at ITV, the UK’s main commercial broadcaster. English with no Japanese interpretation.

Seminar by Dr. Kazuhiro Nawa, ISSP, University of Tokyo. Oct 21 (Tue) at C016. All is welcome.

The use of field programmable gate arrays for implementing embedded vision algorithms.

29th International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) General Meeting

Join us for October's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Auditorium. This month's seminars feature the Developmental Signalling Unit (Mary Ann Price) and the Molecular Genetics Unit (Sydney Brenner).

How can physiology help to understand the ecology and climate change resilience of marine fishes?

OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Alexander Mikheyev (Ecology and Evolution Unit)

Dr. Steven Rosanoff - database engineer and software developer for UniProt, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, England; Dr. Alessandra Vigilante, Luscombe Group, University College London UCL Genetics Institute, Dept of Genetics, Evolution & Environment

External event. Pre-registration required. Registration forms (Japanese only) at http://sigubi.ipsj.or.jp/seminar44/ & http://www.sighci.jp/events/sig/160.

Sports Day 2014

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by, Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, American University of Sharjah.

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Date & Time: Friday, October 10, 10:00-11:00

Venue: C016, Lab 1

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Speaker: Prof. Ghaleb Husseini

American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates

Title: Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Abstract : Chemotherapy is the most extensively used treatment in the fight against malignant neoplasms. Unfortunately, chemotherapy use is plagued with numerous side effects. These side effects are caused primarily because of the non-specific nature of the treatment as the drug is capable of killing normal and cancerous cells alike....

Lecture structured as a dialogue. Japanese with English simultaneous interpretation. Prof Toshihide Maskawa was awarded one-fourth the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 and is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University and director of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI).

Seminar 'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.

Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Application deadline: July 15, 2014

10/2 (Thu) 19:00 Admission Free. 入場無料 Reservation Required. 予約

Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga, World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China

Seminar by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from Stanford University 10:00-11:00, Oct 02

Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Psychology, University of Otago. English with no interpretation. 講演会は英語のみになります。

Admission Free.

Speaker: Dr. Harry Wilson, Academic Service section manager.

Speaker will be Taichiro Sakagami from OIST Open Biology Unit, who is from Kobe! スピーカーは神戸出身の坂上太一郎技術員（OISTオープンバイオロジーユニット）！

Prof. Naoyuki Haba, Department of Physics and Material Science, Shimane University.

Autumn Equinox 2014

Dr. Saar Kirmayer, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science

Admission free. RSVP: Registration opens Sept 12th at 10am at www.oist.jp/adhd. Language: English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation.

Admission Free. Reservation Required.

Join us for September's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Dynamics Unit (Denis Konstantinov) and the Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit (Matthias Wolf).

OIST Special Seminar by Prof Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France. Everyone is encouraged to attend and take advantage of this very special chance.

Dr. Hongping Wei, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, will give a talk about synaptic plasticity in zebrafish retina. Everyone is welcome.

Respect for the Aged Day 2014

Prof. Yosuke Mukoyama, Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Shioko Kimura, Laboratory of Metabolism, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA

Come to welcome the new students and enjoy a surprise performance.

Harrison Leong, Sr. Staff Engineer, Software, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., U.S.A.

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 Aug 2014, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab 1 Speaker: Ms. Maika Takita, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Title: Clocked electron transport across surface of superfluid helium: Towards single electron control

Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

A seminar of general interest to all imaging scientists, especially those in the life sciences. Prof Mark Ellisman is the Director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (UC San Diego) and the founding director of the UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems.

Join us for August's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Tsumoru Shintake) and the Information Processing Biology Unit (Takashi Murayama).

Harrison Leong is Sr. Staff Software Engineer, ThermoFisher Scientific Inc.

Dr. Christian Hansel, Principal Investigator, Hansel Lab - Neurobiology of learning & memory, University of Chicago. Language : English only.

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Ryohei Seto is Research Associate of Benjamin Levich Institute at The City College of New York.

Reza Pakzad is Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Admission Free Reservations start on Monday 14th July at 10am

ENTER IMPORTANT DETAILS HERE, SUCH AS SPEAKER INFO, "Language: Japanese. No interpretation will be provided.", "Participation by invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information and registration.", ETC.

Dr. Chen Xu, EM Facility Manager, Brandeis University. Language: English. No interpretation will be provided. No Registration required.

Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa, Associate Chief Scientist, RIKEN, Nakagawa RNA biology Laboratory, Saitama, Japan

Prof. Yukio Kawahara, Department of RNA Biology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University