Speaker: Prof. Chao Tang, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University

Speaker: Prof. X.C. Xie, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University

Speaker: Prof. Enge Wang, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

OIST Jointly-funded Symposium organized by OIST (Marine Biophysics Unit) and Scripps Institution of Oceonography | All scientific sessions open to OIST members (working meals are closed sessions) | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Kenji Katayama, Department of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University

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

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

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.

Prof. Gordon Berman, Emory University

Host: Stephens unit

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”

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

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

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.

Dr. Nitin Upadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Flame University.

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

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

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

Language: English

Open to all OIST community

Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama, Kyoto University

Speaker: Prof. Artur Ekert

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

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

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

Joint High Energy Theory workshop between Kyoto University, National Taiwan University and OIST. Additional external speakers are Song He, Eugene Skvortsov, Julian Sonner and Kazuya Yonekura. Program & Schedule in attached PDF.

Klaus Müllen, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany

Speaker: Prof. Klaus Müllen

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

3-day Science Leadership and Management course provided by highly sought after trainers from hfp consulting . A course Certificate is available upon completion.

All are welcome. Language: English. Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang, Dean of College of Life Science, Directory of Brain Research Center, Distinguished Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University

Please see attached PDF for details.

Contact President's Office for more information.

Marine Biophysics Unit (Mitarai unit) would like to invite you to seminar by Prof. Stephen Monismith from Stanford University.

Seminar " Neck pinch singularities in the geometry of surfaces" by Dr. John Loftin from Rutgers University

Dr. Jiexin Wang, a researcher at the department of Brain Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.

Dr. Patrick Collombat

Group leader at INSERM (France), working on pancreatic beta-cell regeneration.

Reservation: Required via email to <yukiko.cooper[at]oist.jp>.

Language: English. No translation into Japanese.

Quantum Gravity Group Meeting

Title: Black hole microstate counting for BTZ black hole

Speaker : Vyacheslav Lysov, Quantum Gravity Unit (Neiman)

Internal Seminar Series, 4-5 pm, Friday, November 9, C700

Internal Seminar Series, 4-5 pm, Friday November 9, C700

This is a seminar by Topology and Geometry of Manifolds Unit, occasionally on Thursday. It will be followed by tea after the semiar at the unit space.

Abstract: Topological gravity, defined on Riemann surface or Teichmuller space with handles and holes, has recently interesting developments. The intersection numbers on the moduli space for p-spin curve are evaluated with handles and holes. Some problems of a super Riemann surface are discussed.

Join Dr. Simone Pigolotti, Associate Professor, OIST for a very informal and interactive talk about "Five rules of thumb for a successful scientific career".

Everyone is welcome!

"Morse functions and singularities of product maps" by Professor Kazuto Takao from Kyoto University

Prof. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Prof. Jeffrey Giacomin, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University. Language: English, no interpretation.

Prof. Bob Svendsen, RWTH Aachen University. Language: English, no interpretation

This interactive seminar is a good primer on how to utilize Social Media outlets and web to increase your visibility and chances to find a good position.

Prof. Mogens H. Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Professor Osamu Saeki from Kyushu university will give a seminar "Unlinking singular locus from regular fibers and its application to submersions"

Speakers: Makoto YOSHIZAWA (RIKEN), Hiroshi KOYAMA (NIBB), Jason SWEDLOW (University of Dundee), Yusuke MORIMOTO (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Akihiro KUSUMI (OIST), Mako KAMIYA (The University of Tokyo), Minh DOAN (Broad Institute), Peilin CHEN (Academia Sinica), Keiko KONO (OIST). Language: English. No registration required.

OIST Mini Symposium | Scientific sessions are open to all OIST members | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Ilia Kurbatov, Far Eastern Federal University