Title: The Free Energy Principle: Challenges and Implications for Thinking about Life-Mind Continuity

Speaker: Dr. Michael D. Kirchhoff, University of Wollongong

Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology and Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University

Prof. Kenji Fukushima, University of Tokyo

Speaker: Matthew Edmonds (Postdoc, Keio University, Japan) Language: English

Title: Artificial Relevance

Speaker: Dr. Julian Kiverstein, Amsterdam University Medical Centre

National holiday

hases of CuHT(S) and its analogs, CuHT(Se) and CuHT(Te) on the basis of density functional calculations. We found bulk phases showed superior power factors than the single phases, which is comparable with best organic TE candidates, PEDOT and poly[Kx(Ni-ett)], reported by experiments. The non-parabolic CBM of CuHT(Se) along the a direction can decouple the transport quantities, Seebeck coefficients and electrical conductivity to achieve the highest power factor among all candidates.

OIST will get a new computing cluster this year. Cast your vote for the new cluster name! Go here to vote, or scan the QR code.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Andreas Thomasen (Quantum Matter). Title: "Intuitions about topology in condensed matter physics".

Title : Senescence: a cellular phenotype in physiology and pathology

Speaker: Prof. Ana O'Loghlen

Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London

Join Dr. James Davis Reimer, Associate Professor, University of the Ryukyus for an interactive interview style discussion at OIST.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Seminar by Dr. Anjan Soumyanarayanan from A*STAR and NUS, Singapore [Magnetic Skyrmions: Spin Topology for Nanoscale Computing]

We will discuss the classical paper by V.E. Didenko and M.A. Vasiliev Static BPS black hole in 4d higher-spin gauge theory Yasha Neiman will be leading the discussion.

Faculty Lunch Seminar. Speaker: Yasha Neiman (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Let us breed a Schrodinger's Cat"

Prof. Shoich Toyabe, Associate Professor, Tohoku University.

[Speaker] Prof. Robert Antonia, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment (Mechanical Engineering) , The University of Newcastle, Australia

This is the weekly Quantum Gravity group meeting. Speaker: Yasha Neiman. Title: Recent developments in higher-spin gravity.

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

7th International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology Conference

Internal Seminar by Guangzong Xing, Quantum Transport and Electron Structure Theory Unit

Internal Seminar by Mohieldin Youssef, Cell Signal Unit

Prof. Elke Scheer, Department of Physics, University of Konstanz, Germany

Prof. Juan-Carlos Cuevas, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Prof. Lucas Carey, Associate Professor, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking Unviersiy

Title : The Many Layers of Touch

Speaker: Randy M. Bruno, Ph.D

Affiliation: Dept. of Neuroscience and the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University

PhD public presentation

Professor Bin Tean Teh, Ph.D., M.D Deputy Director (Research), National Cancer Centre of Singapore Deputy Director (Scientific), SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Senior Principal Investigator, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 14:00-15:00

Speaker: Dr. Rémi Chaussenot, University Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France Language: English, no interpretation

Title: Directed Evolution under genetic codes with reduced-size alphabet or with low fidelity

Speaker: Prof. Daisuke Kiga from Waseda University

Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University

Learn about the latest trends in high-performance VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (仮想デスクトップ基盤)) and next-generation virtualization infrastructures, and share technical information. The conference consists of presentation sessions and hands-on workshops. | Language: Japanese (all presentation materials will be in English) | Program: https://www.highperformancevdi.com/en/meetings/2019/program.html | All scientific sessions are open to OIST members (additional fees apply for working meals)

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Dear Foodies :)

Next class will be Pakistani Kitchen with "Beef Nihari & Roghni Naan" The chef will be Afshan Jamshaid. The class will be on 28th September Saturday at 6pm in Community Kitchen. Kindly confirm your availability for placing the order.

We will discuss the recent paper by Ahmed Almheiri, Raghu Mahajan, Juan Maldacena and Ying Zhao The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry Sudip Ghosh will be leading the discussion.

Title : Neural Representations of Natural Self-Motion: Implications for Perception & Action

Speaker: Dr. Kathleen E. Cullen

Affiliation: The Johns Hopkins University

Thursdays | Grano Level B | 16:00-16:30

The workshop is going to be held on September 26, 2019,

Come and join a lively discussion with successful KAKENHI recipients.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Language: English

Title: Epigenetics for thermal plasticity in a reef fish

Name: Taewoo Ryu

Affiliation: APEC Climate Center, Republic of Korea

Abstract:

Elevated ocean temperature exacerbates physiology and survival of many marine organisms. Recent studies showed that some species can fully restore the physiological traits either within one or after multiple generations depending on the populations. Uncovering cellular mechanisms of such phenotypic plasticity is important to understand and predict species’ or populations’ response to climate change. We tried to identify epigenetic mechanisms related to within- and transgenerational plasticity using the high and low latitude population of Great Barrier Reef fish, Acanthochromis Polyacanthus , which showed thermal acclimation at the first or second generations, respectively. By sequencing genome and DNA methylomes of fish reared in the control and future predicted temperatures (+1.5 and +3 °C) at the whole genome level, differentially methylated genomic regions and related genes were identified. Functions related to nutrient homeostasis, cardiovascular capacity, and development and were significantly enriched among differentially methylated genes of high latitude F1 population, which were scarcely enriched among those of low latitude F2 population, indicating highly coordinated regulation of these functions for within- compared to transgenerational plasticity.

Language: English

Sharepoint Open Hours

Location: B646

Time: 13:00-14:00

Stoffel Janssens (Postdoc at Fried Unit)

Prof. Paul S. Maddox, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prof. Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS

Prof. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: 19 May 2019 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd

09:00-10:30 - OIST new faculties' talk 11:00-12:20 - OIST faculties' talk 12:20-13:30 - Poster viewing 13:30-15:30 - OIST researchers/students' talk

National holiday

Internal Seminar by Charles Plessy, Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit