Dr Luis Carrillo-Reid, Neuro Technology Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Brandon Morinaka, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Prof. Eric Rivard, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta (Canada)

Speaker: Nozomu Yachie

Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Title: DNA barcode technologies for high-throughput measurements of molecular and cellular dynamics

Seminar: “Overview of Synchrotron Radiation Science at Photon Factory”

Speaker:

Prof. Masami ANDO

Professor at Tokyo University of Science

Speaker: Professor Jun Okuda, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Yutaka Shikano, Research Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Language: English

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Briefing Session on New Approval Process of Field Activities. If your unit, including visitors, PhD students and rotation students, is currently doing field work, or planning to do fieldwork in FY 2017, please attend or send a representative. If you are carrying out several projects, feel free to bring relevant colleagues.

Date: February 3, 2017

Time: 16:00-17:00

Place: B250 seminar room

Seminar by Dr. Hidehiko Shimada (KEK) at 2PM on Feb 3rd in C016.

Speaker: Prof. Bethany Rader, Southern Illinois University

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Internal Seminar: Yoshimasa Takizawa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit (Wolf Unit)

Seminar "Small molecule inhibitors of cancer stem cells identified through target-based and cell based screening" Dr.Nobumoto Watanabe, Feb 1.

seminar

Nomura School Ryukyuan Traditional Music Association presents Ryukyu Traditional Performing Art. Admission free. Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/concert for more information."

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Luca Sapienza, Solid-state Quantum Optics group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)

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This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Reiko Toriumi, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen

Art Exhibition by Graduate School of Formative Arts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, at OIST , Admission Free, No Reservation Needed.

Kim "Avrama" Blackwell received a M.S. in Systems Engineering, a PhD in Bioengineering and a V.M.D. in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Her professional career began at the not-for-profit Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, where she began developing artificial neural networks for pattern recognition. In 1996 Dr. Blackwell moved to the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Study at George Mason University as associate professor, and has been a professor since 2008, initially in the Molecular Neuroscience department and currently in the Bioengineering department.

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Henrik Bringmann, Sleep and Wake, Max Planck Institution for Biophysical Chemistry

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Estienne C. Swart, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern

Prof. Changjoon Justin Lee, KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) / Language : English / No registration required.

We offer a concise introduction to C and C++ programming for researchers and students.

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

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Cancer Stem Cell Working Group (CSCWG) Seminar by Hong Huat Hoh (OIST PhD Student). Open to all.

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

Ms Sabine Hessler, University of Sussex, U.K.

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Keiko Kono, Medical Department and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Yingli Rao, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Seminar by Prof. Simon Gardiner

Speaker: Dr. Sho Soeda

Researcher, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Title: Dephosphorylation-mediated functional switching of chromokinesin Kid/KIF22 ensures chromosome segregation.

Language: English. Registration required. Details TBA at https://groups.oist.jp/isaw.

The library is hosting Mendeley Seminar on January 10, 2016 with training provided by an expert from Elsevier. There are two sessions: English and Japanese

National Holiday.

Prof. So Nakagawa, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine

Dr. Hsiao-Han Chang, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

* * * !!! * * * INPUT A SUMMARY! * * * !!! * * * such as "Dr. Jill Tanner, Distinguished Professor, Stanford University", "Language: Japanese. No interpretation.", "By invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information."

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

Please be notified there will be a power outage on Dec 17 ^th , due to a scheduled legal inspection. Please read for details.

Internal Seminar: Tomoki Tokuda , Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit ( Hikami Unit)

Internal Seminar: Viet Giang Truong , Group Leader, Light Matter Interactions Unit ( Nic Chormaic Unit)

Teatime has been moved to Friday this week, 16:00 in the restaurant, level B.

Dr. Yasunori Hayashi , Senior team leader, Memory mechanisms, RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Language: English, No interpretation. Registration: not required.

Prof. Lars Brink. Language: English. No interpretation.