Researchers and professors from universities as well as renowned energy companies from all over Japan come together to discuss their recent projects. All OIST members are welcome to attend. Presentations on Friday will be held in English, presentations on Saturday in Japanese.

Seminar by Prof. Matsueda, Vice President, NIT Sendai

The new issue of Kuroshio Magazine is out -- and available in print at today’s Teatime! Swing by Grano at 4pm to grab some tea, coffee and snacks and read up on the Current of OIST!

The recent developments in quantum science and technology now allow us to control systems at the quantum level, and we have began to see the quantum world in ways we have never imagine before. In this workshop, co-organized by KAKENHI program " Science of Hybrid Quantum Systems " in Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (新学術領域, Shin-Gakujutsu-Ryouiki), international experts on various hybrid quantum systems will gather to discuss the recent developments as well as future perspectives.

National holiday.

National holiday.

Katoori Chaat

Title: Maintenance of regulatory T cell stability by ubiquitin E3 ligases deltex1 and XIAP

Speaker: Professor Ming-Zong Lai

Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sincia

[Seminar]

Title: Electrokinetics and Plasmonics at NanoScale Singularities: Designing Next-Generation Molecular Diagnostics

Speaker: Professor Hsueh-Chia Chang

Institution: University of Notre Dame, USA

Title: Building Robots that Teach

Speaker: Brian Scassellati

Affiliation: Yale University

Prof. Gordon Berman, Emory University

Host: Stephens unit

When developing a drug, biomarker, or treatment approach, how will it actually work in patients, and how will it change the decisions that are made during treatment? Doctors, patients, and other stake holders each have different concerns about the costs/benefits at each stage of a medical treatment, and these concerns are not always effectively met. We focus on these issues in a teaching setting at Brown University (USA) as a lot of the tools for translating research into healthcare are generally relevant to how we do collaborative research.

Dr. Massimo Merighi Associate Head of Metabolic Engineering, Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston, MA, USA)

Rapid pathway prototyping for novel bio-based chemicals: Case Studies from Ginkgo Bioworks

In this Innovation Forum hosted talk, Ginkgo Bioworks Associate Head of Metabolic Engineering, Dr. Massimo Merighi, will discuss several case studies of pathways developed by Ginkgo, in particular one involving the engineering of a substrate co-feed in Escherichia coli , including a history of how this design cycle has evolved over time to take advantage of new technological developments.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Discussion of the recent article by T. Faulkner, M. Li and H. Wang "A modular toolkit for bulk reconstruction" by Sudip Ghosh.

Ginkgo Bioworks and the challenges of making biology easier to engineer

How an MIT spin-off company founded by 4 graduate students designs microbes for the fragrance, food, agriculture, and pharmceutical industries

Seminar: "Large-scale grain-boundary-free copper films for nanoplasmonics" & "Single-shot intensity-corrected phase tagging for weak carrier-envelope-phase effects" by Dr. Soo Hoon Chew, Pusan National University

Title: The mouth, the anus and the blastopore. Their questionable developmental and evolutionary relationships and the origin of the animal gut

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Hejnol

Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway. Research Group Leader “Comparative Developmental Biology of Animals”

Seminar: " Interferometric time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy of few-femtosecond nanoplasmonic dynamics" by Dr. Alexander Gliserin, Pusan National University

Join us for the last Teatime of 2018! Come for the usual tea, coffee and snacks, stay to discuss New Year's Resolutions that we may or may not keep. In any case, maybe the mid-afternoon caffeine boost will inspire some big plans for the year ahead.

Have a safe holiday season everyone, and we'll see you at the next Teatime on January 10!

Title: Experimental and Translational MRI of Brain Reorganization after Stroke by Professor

Speaker: Professor Rick Dijkhuizen

Affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht

Title: ECM1 promotes differentiation of follicular helper T cells by antagonizing IL-2-STAT5 pathway

Speaker: Professor Bing Sun

Affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

This interactive presentation suggests tools and examples to help scientists communicate in ways that resonate with people outside of their field about what they do and why it matters. The seesion will cover general principles in how to craft clear and conversational statements, and engage with your audience.

Title: High-resolution Rodent fMRI at Ultrahigh Fields

Speaker: Professor Seong-Gi Kim

Affiliation: Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon, Korea; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

Dr. Nitin Upadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Flame University.

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Hiroaki Hamada

Title: Serotonergic Control of Brain-Wide Dynamic

Date&Time: December, 9:00am

Venue: B250, LevelB, Ctr Bldg

Dr. Shunsuke Tagami, Unit Leader, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

Indian Tandoori Chicken

Science Presentation Competition for High School Students in Okinawa

Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700

Tom Burns, currently a rotation student in the Topology and Geometry of Manifolds (Tsvietkova) Unit, will present a talk on a research project done as part of his lab rotation. The title is "Exploring Gridworlds with State Complexes".

All are welcome.

Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700

Dr. Marty Alain, CNRS and Paris Descartes University

Mr. Chris Tanner, Intellectual Property Attorney, FYPA, PLLC

Language: English

Open to all OIST community

Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama, Kyoto University

Tracing the origins and evolution of human microbiome investigations: from pursuit of earth’s earliest life forms to the etiology of Pouchitis

Speaker: Mitchell L. Sogin Ph.D.

Distinguished Scientist

The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole

A launch event of Innovation Forum Okinawa will take place Monday, December 3rd in Room C209 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm, where we will be presenting the new Innovation Forum branch in Okinawa.

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Boundary<->Horizon maps for classical higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space.

Speaker : Yasha Neiman, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

"Dr. Haruhiko Koseki, Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences. Language: English, no interpretation."

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

This is an externally organized event. For more information contact the organizers.

Speaker: Prof. Artur Ekert

Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

[Seminar]

Title: Active THz metamaterial photonics: From all-dielectrics to superconductors

Speaker: Professor. Ranjan Singh

Institution: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Titile : Genomics of uncultivable bacteria deciphers multilayered symbiotic system in the termite gut

Speaker: Professor Yuichi Hongoh

Institution: School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Seminar: "High-power synchronized dual-channel laser enabling fast 2- and 3-photon in vivo brain imaging" by Dr. Robert Riedel and Dr. Jan Heye Buss

[Seminar]

Title: Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes

Speaker: Professor Noboru Murata

Institution: Waseda University, Japan

“QuickFix”- improve your application materials in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!