Speaker: Prof. Britt Hedman, SSRL and SLAC, Stanford University Title: Synchrotrons and X-ray Free Electron Lasers in Structural Biology – From “Slow” to “Ultrafast”

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Seminar: Prof. Michael J. Berry II from Princeton University talks on "Predictive Computations in the Primary Visual Cortex"

Seminar by Prof. T.B. Liverpool (Univ. of Bristol), Monday 18th May 11:00-12:00, C016 Lab1.

Pottery, poster presentation, and photo exhibition.

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

This is an external even organized by Library Fair & Forum Executive Committee. Venue: B250 Seminar Room Participants: About 100

Join us for May's second Internal Seminar Series on May 15, from 17:30 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the G0 Cell Unit (Mitsuhiro Yanagida).

Date: Th 14 May 2015 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Seminar Room B503, Level/Floor B, Lab 1 Speaker: Dr. Michael Kuba, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt Title: Cephalopods, potential new models or just fancy slugs?

Mary Collins, Professor of Immunology, University College London; Head of Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control UK, recently retired as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences UCL, OIST President's Scholar In Residence

Toshiya Kinoshita, Associate Professor Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Course of Studies on Material Science Kyoto University

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

Prof. Mary Collins, Professor of Immunology Head of Division of Advanced Therapies, University College London and National Institute of Biological Standards and Control. Prof Collins is visiting OIST from May 11 to May15, 2015 as the President's Scholar In Residence.

Professor Salvatore Federico, The University of Calgary

Demo of the Nucleofector will also be available

Seminar by Dr. Christian Biertümpfel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Seminar by Prof. Yuegang Zhang from i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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

National Holiday.

National Holiday.

National Holiday.

Join us for May's first Internal Seminar Series on May 1, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas M. Luscombe) and Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit (Keshav Dani).

Prof. Sang-Wook Han, Department of Physics Education, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

Japanese National Holiday.

Seminar "microRNAs trigger dissociation of eIF4AI and II from target mRNAs in humans." Prof. Toshinobu Fujiwara.

Technical seminar and free discussion

Outside speakers: Dr Yoshihiro Arita (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Prof Etienne Brasselet (University of Bordeaux I, France) Dr Simon Hanna (University of Bristol, UK) Prof Jack Tsz Fai NG (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

This is an externally organized event. Organizer: Kosen Conference Committee. OIST members are welcome to participate

Seminar ''Development of nano functional materials and their application in organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells'' by Prof. Tingli Ma, Kyutech

This is an externally organized event. Organizer: Society for the Study of Deafness and Impediment in Okinawa.

Seminar ''Printable solar cells'' by Prof. Shuzi Hayase, Kyutech

Seminar "Novel approaches to study mechanism of cytokinesis in animal cells."　Prof. Issei Mabuchi.

Lecture series: Artificial Gauge Fields and Topology in Ultracold Atomic Gases by Dr. Yongping Zhang Lecture 1: Synthetic Magnetic field and Electric field 10:00-12:00, Wednesday, 22 April @C600-b Lecture 2: Artificial Spin-orbit Coupling 15:00-17:00, Wednesday, 22 April @C600-b Lecture 3: The Measurement of Topological Properties 10:00-12:00, Thursday, 23 April @C600-b

Language: Japanese or English, depending on the pool of audience. No interpretation will be provided.

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

Join us for April's second Internal Seminar Series on Apr. 17, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's second seminar features the Neural Computation Unit (Kenji Doya) and Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Evan Economo).

Postdoctoral Researcher, Saarland University, Germany

This is an externally organized event. For more information please visit the workshop's website at http://events.embo.org/15-comp-bio/index.html

Prof. Stephen W. Morris J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics Department of Physics University of Toronto, Canada

OIST Colloquium Re -Thinking Innovation in Companies and the Implications for Government Policy Free Admission. Anyone is Welcome

Prof. Stephen W. Morris J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics Department of Physics University of Toronto, Canada

Seminar ''Sulfur empowers porous frameworks: sensors, catalysts and a story of bridging the gaps'' Prof. Zhengtao Xu

This is an external event. All scientific sessions are open to OIST members.

Speaker: Yang Yang Li, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Materials Science City University of Hong Kong Abstract: This talk focuses on one major challenge present in the field of nanomaterials, which is on how to achieve elaborate nanostructures (e.g., photonic structures) on a large (e.g., industrial) scale with sufficient precision and low cost. Here we present economical bottom-up approaches to fabricate nanomaterials with structural precision, good scalability, and desirable properties, particularly promising for energy and environmental applications. Our approaches build on the well-established electrochemical techniques, applicable to a wide range of materials and functions, e.g., to fabricate nanoporous metallic films with flexible porosity profiles (e.g., sine waves) along the film thickness direction, or to modify metal oxides. Theoretical...

[Grant Seminar] CREST/PRESTO 説明会 April 9 Thursday 2pm

Seminar: Prof. Rieko Ohki, Division of Rare Cancer Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute

Language: English Researchers from Fraunhofer will be visiting OIST. Inquiries: bd@oist.jp

Peter Krüger (Professor, The University of Nottingham, UK

Join us for April's first Internal Seminar Series on Apr. 3, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's first seminar features the Light-Matter Interactions Unit (Sile Nic Chormaic) and Biological Systems Unit (Igor Goryanin).

"The Dance of the Blue Planet" talk by Dr. Susan K. Avery, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI