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?

Prof. Maki Kawai, Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to invite you to a Special Lecture Series by Prof. Bruce Clemens (Stanford University, U.S.A) on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nanomaterials Synthesis.

Lecture 1 – Thermodynamics Review, Bond Counting and the Regular Solution Model, Chemical Potential

Professor Salvatore Federico, The University of Calgary