Past Events
Welcome to Class of 2022 New Students
Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2022 New Students
Uke Club Meeting POSTPONED
Uke Club meeting postponed due to probable typhoon
Inter-unit eDNA meeting
Are you using environmental DNA (eDNA) in your research? Or are you just curious about eDNA and its potential applications? Please join us for this inter-unit meeting about eDNA research at OIST. Speakers from Ravasi, Husnik, N. Luscombe, Miller, and Satoh units will first briefly introduce their eDNA research projects and then we will have a roundtable discussion to share our expertise across units.
"Focused liquid jets induced by an impact: mechanism of the jets, their applications, and related research"Yoshiyuki Tagawa
Language: English
[Seminar] When does taxonomy matter?
Speaker: Professor Andrew Baird, Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University
Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit
Abstract: Molecular approaches have revolutionised our understanding of the systematics and evolution of most branches on the tree of life, including corals. Over the last twenty-five years molecular research has revealed that few of the 18 families and 111 genera recognised by Veron (2000) were monophyletic. New techniques and vision promise a more robust and consistent species level taxonomy, but it will take time and there is always likely to be some uncertainty. It is therefore important to establish when taxonomy matters and when it does not. (...)
Annual Inspection_Autoclave [TOMY-SEIKO]
Annual Inspection_Autoclave
ALIFE Workshop 2022
ALIFE Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.
OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in August 2022
This session will be done in English only. The program will start off with OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 2 OIST PhD students.
[Date updated!!] Dr Terufumi Fujiwara: Multimodal, multi-timescale signals in the visual system orchestrate robust, rapid, and flexible walking control
[Neuroscience Club] Dr. Terufumi Fujiwara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal. Language: English.
[Mini-course] BV functions in Carnot groups | Speaker Dr. Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, University of Jyväskylä
Speaker: Dr. Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, University of Jyväskylä Title: BV functions in Carnot groups Language: English, no interpretation.
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
[Seminar] Classification of classical spin liquid in the large-S limit
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] Translational Supramolecular Chemistry by Prof. Stefan Matile (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Title:
Translational Supramolecular Chemistry
Abstract: Supramolecular chemistry is about contacts between molecules. Translational supramolecular chemistry expects that offering new ways to get into contact on the molecular level will provide access to new structures and functions, which ultimately will allow us to tackle otherwise elusive challenges in science and society. In this spirit, new interactions have been introduced to catalysis: Anion-π interactions in 2013, followed by chalcogen bonds in 2017 and pnictogen bonds in 2018. Several reactions and catalytic systems have been realized by now (foldamers, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, artificial enzymes, electric fields, lipid bilayer membranes). Emergent properties include the breaking of the Baldwin rules and autocatalytic brevetoxin-like polyether cyclizations in π-acidic surfaces. The same chalcogen bonds were the key to build mechanosensitive fluorescent probes that change color like lobsters during cooking. The resulting “fluorescent flippers” are the first small-molecule probes that can image physical forces in living cells. Mechanobiological changes in membrane tension can now be imaged throughout, from mitochondrial fission, endocytosis, secretory pathway, nuclear envelope to morphogenesis in early mammalian embryos. Addressing a current need in the life sciences, they had to be commercialized to assure distribution. Flipper probes are thus as an example for the direct translation of demanding supramolecular chemistry principles into products that do well on the market. The third example for the spirit of translational supramolecular chemistry focuses on dynamic covalent exchange cascades to find new ways to enter into cells. The resulting thiol-mediated uptake emerges as complex network that encodes for cell penetration in the broadest sense, working from genome editing in live animals to general cytosolic delivery into deep tissue, explaining the mystery of FDA-approved antisense oligonucleotide phosphorothioates, affording inhibitors for the cellular entry of pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 – but how does it really work?
【ONLINE】ONNA×OIST Children's School of Science OPEN CLASS!
こどもかがく教室オープンクラス
SHIMA 2022
SHIMA is an annual science educational outreach program to educate high school students in Okinawa on the sustainability of island ecosystems and cultures.
【ONLINE】2022年恩納村×OIST こどもかがくきょうしつ Onna/OIST Children's School of Science
恩納村×OIST こどもかがく教室2022
8月15日(月)~19日(金)
09:00~10:30
Cosmos screening (episode 6)
Cosmos episode 6: Travellers' Tales
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Academic Careers in Europe with Dr. Kerstin Lenk
Dr. Kerstin Lenk, Graz University of Technology. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Young Researchers. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.
[Seminar] 'Super Resolution Imaging with Metamaterials' by Dr Yeon Ui Lee
Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan: 22 July - 20 August 2022
Title: Super Resolution Imaging with Metamaterials
[Seminar] Dr. Sébastien Lerique "Embodied Rationality through Game Theoretic Glasses"
Embodied Rationality through Game Theoretic Glasses: an Empirical Point of Contact.
Sébastien Lerique, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit.
[Seminar] The neurobiological effects of ocean acidification on a cephalopod
Speaker: Jodi Thomas, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD Australia.
Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit
Abstract: The uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean is causing seawater CO2 levels to rise, changing ocean chemistry in a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA can affect a variety of physiological processes, life history traits and behaviours of fish and marine invertebrates. As invertebrates comprise the vast majority of marine diversity, are essential for key ecosystem processes and support human livelihoods, OA-induced effects of marine invertebrates could have ecological, social and economic consequences.(...)
Evolutionary Genomics Seminar Vol.1_Mysterious mating behavior of a subsocial wood-feeding cockroach: female and male eat their wings one another, presented by Haruka Osaki, Postdoc at Kyoto University
Seminar by Haruka Osaki, Postdoc at Kyoto University
Date: August 5th
Time: 3pm - (30-40 mins Lecture and 10-20mins QA session)
Zoom: Meeting:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/ 74391178937?pwd=7nClhiDi4S- 7j5Hq6BTKHy0uhMrMv9.1 For questions please contact: egu@oist.jp
TSVP Talk: "Modeling Networks Reveals How Neural Connectivity Transforms Space Into Time" by Dr. Merav Stern
Dr. Merav Stern, Hebrew University. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Uke night! Maybe on the beach!
TSVP Talk: "Modeling Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions in the Brain" by Dr. Kerstin Lenk
Dr. Kerstin Lenk, Graz University of Technology. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).
[Seminar] Dr. Ryutaro Okuma. "Itinerant frustration in van der Waals coupled iodides"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
[Seminar] Prof. Atsushi Kaneda "Epigenetic aberrations to drive gastric tumorigenesis"
Prof. Atsushi Kaneda, Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
[Lecture 3] Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Date & Time: [Lecture 3] 09:00-10:30, 29th (Fri)
Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom
[Seminar] Dr. Valentina Basoli "Prospective in cartilage regeneration: development of in vitro osteoarthritis model for testing drugs and sensors"
[Seminar] Dr. Valentina Basoli "Prospective in cartilage regeneration: development of in vitro osteoarthritis model for testing drugs and sensors"
[Lecture 2] Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Date & Time: [Lecture 2] 09:00-10:00, 28th (Thu)
Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom
Zoom meeting: Meeting ID: 917 8612 0273 Passcode: 870713
Abstract: This short lecture series will first cover a few basic concepts in nano-optics and fluorescence microscopy. Advanced optical imaging techniques including confocal, multiphoton, and metamaterials-assistant super-resolution microscopies will then be surveyed. Coverage of selected topics is as follows.
Wave optics Metamaterials Fluorescence microscopy Super-resolution microscopy Brief overview of quantum optics and fluorescence imagingProfile : Yeon Ui Lee is an assistant professor at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Her research interests include, but not limited to, nanophotonics and super-resolution imaging, and she has an excellent record in the research field of metamaterial assisted illumination nanoscopies. Prof. Yeon Ui Lee received her Ph.D. degree from Ewha Womans University, South Korea, in 2015. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego before she got tenured. Here at OIST in Síle Nic Chormaic Unit she is looking forward to fruitful interactions and collaborations. She will be visiting until August 20th, please don’t hesitate to get in touch: yeonuilee@cbnu.ac.kr
[Lecture 1] Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Date & Time: [Lecture 1] 09:00-11:00, 27th (Wed)
Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom
Faculty Lunchtime Seminar (Prof. Yasha Neiman)
Title: Are black holes and particles the same thing?
Abstract: I'll discuss the similarities between fundamental particles, thermal systems and black holes. We will play some quantitative games to see exactly how black holes are different from particles in the real world.
Having paid the real world our respects, we will talk about how black holes and fundamental particles *are* the same in string theory - a story rarely covered in popular propaganda, but central to the second superstring revolution. Funny enough, it allows for the "discovery" of new particles through writing down new black hole solutions.
I will then advertise my current work, in which I'm doing exactly that for string theory's wonky cousin, Higher-Spin Gravity.
By Faculty Affairs Office/ Faculty Lunchtime Seminar Coordinators
Activities Fair and Art Market: Friday, July 22 | 4-7pm
Title: OIST Activities Fair & Art Market | Date : Friday, July 22nd | Time : 4:00-7:00pm
NEW DATE: FRIDAY, JULY 22 - Activities Fair and Art Market
NEW DATE Due to weather: FRIDAY, JULY 22
[Catch-All Mathematical Colloquium] Professor Motoko Kotani (Tohoku University )
Speaker : Professor Motoko Kotani, Tohoku University
Part I Title : Discrete geometric analysis and its application Abstract: Discrete geometric analysis is an attempt to discretize geometric analysis. Mathematics is often said “a common language of science”. As our world consists of atoms, which we consider as discrete objects, developing language to describe discrete objects, their geometric structures in particular, is important. I would like to discuss our challenge to establish discrete geometric analysis and its application to other science.Part II
Have fun in interacting with people from different interests.
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Uke 'til you puke with the finest bunch of ukesters on this side of the Pacific.
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
TSVP Talk: "A Generative Model of Communication in the Brain" by Prof. Dana Ballard
Prof. Dana Ballard, The University of Texas in Austin. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
[Seminar] Mr. Stefano Brizzolara "Unveiling the signature of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
[Seminar] Dr. Leenoy Meshulam "On spins and neurons: investigating brain function with Ising models and renormalization group inspired approaches"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English
Virtual Seminar"Biotechnological applications of cellulose-based soft materials"Davide Califano
Language: English
24th International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces (ICMFS-2022)
This is an externally organized event. For more information please go the conference website .
[Public Talk] Quantum Computers: How fantastic will they really be?
This fun and informative public lecture (English and Japanese), will give some insights to the public and high-school students, about the potential wonderous power of a Quantum Computer - what it might be capable of and what it might not be capable of. We will have a live demo of a Quantum Computer!
Meet the Life Innovators-Future of Food, Agriculture and Life
AgVenture Lab and OIST will hold a startup event to promote innovation in food, agriculture, and life. Language: Japanese Registration required (Deadline July 6)
食と農とくらしのイノベーションを考えるスタートアップイベント。日本語。 事前登録制 (締切 7月6日)。
Sustainable Eating Discussion, Film, and Cooking Workshop July 8th and July 9th
C Green - Grass Straws | Documentary | Cooking Workshop
Uke Club Meeting - Seaside Lounge OR Beach!
Ukulele club returns, but where? Only the weather knows for sure.