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Dr. Leon Loverdige, University of South-Eastern Norway. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Speaker: Dr Xueyan Shen , Senior Lecturer Aquaculture Institute, James Cook University Singapore.

Hosted by: Dr. Roger Huerlimann, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract:

Cobia ( Rachycentron canadum ) is the only member of the Rachycentridae family and exhibits considerable sexual dimorphism in growth rate. Sex determination in teleosts has been a long-standing basic biological question. The molecular mechanisms of sex determination/differentiation in cobia species is completely unknown. We reported high-quality, chromosome-level genome sequences of male cobia with a genome assembly size of 586.51 Mb (contig/scaffold N50: 86.0 kb/24.3 Mb) and female cobia, 583.88 Mb (79.9 kb/22.5 Mb). (...)

Learn about the fundamentals of climate change and climate action in this interactive workshop organized for the OIST community.

[Speaker] Dr. Ravindra Gettu, VS Raju Institute Chair Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Speaker: Professor Dean R. Jerry, Tropical Futures Institute, James Cook University Singapore, Australian Research Council Hub for Supercharging Tropical Aquaculture through Genetic Solutions, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

Hosted by: Dr. Roger Huerlimann, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: As the farming of aquaculture species matures the industry is progressively adopting innovation to increase productivity and lower risk due to disease and environmental perturbations. Technologies based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, rapid diagnostics, biosensors, and integration of genomic data are being developed in efforts to obtain precise information on the health and well-being of the cultured species, along with allowing finer-scale management of the production system. (...)

Dr. Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, University of Jyväskylä. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

To mark R U Okay Day (Thursday 8 ^th September) and World Suicide Prevention Day (Saturday 11 ^th September) at OIST, Ganjuu Wellbeing Service will have a stall at lunchtime at center court where they will be sharing information, leaflets, giving away World Suicide Prevention Day wrists bands and raising money for the Okinawan Lifeline, a charity that provides out of hours telephone support for people in crisis.

Where yellow on Thursday 8 ^th September to support R U Okay Day :)

Conversational French Lessons - Registration Open for September to November

Title: Inference, control and the cortical circuits

Abstract:

The duality of sensory inference and motor control has recently been recognized as the commonality in computations required for the posterior distributions in Bayesian inference and the value functions in optimal control. Meanwhile, an intriguing question about the brain is why the entire neocortex shares a canonical six-layer architecture, while its posterior and anterior halves are engaged in sensory processing and motor control, respectively. Here we consider the hypothesis that the sensory and motor cortical circuits implement the dual computations for Bayesian inference and optimal control,

Yasha and Akiko (FAO)

"TSVP Teatime": informal discussions and getting to know each other

Speaker: Dr. Maciej Zgirski, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Welcome Ceremony for Class of 2022 New Students

Uke Club meeting postponed due to probable typhoon

Speaker: Professor Andrew Baird, Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: Molecular approaches have revolutionised our understanding of the systematics and evolution of most branches on the tree of life, including corals. Over the last twenty-five years molecular research has revealed that few of the 18 families and 111 genera recognised by Veron (2000) were monophyletic. New techniques and vision promise a more robust and consistent species level taxonomy, but it will take time and there is always likely to be some uncertainty. It is therefore important to establish when taxonomy matters and when it does not. (...)

Annual Inspection_Autoclave

ALIFE Workshop 2022. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Invited Guests.

This session will be done in English only. The program will start off with OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 2 OIST PhD students.

Speaker: Dr. Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, University of Jyväskylä Title: BV functions in Carnot groups Language: English, no interpretation.

Uke night is coming again and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Please take appropriate precautions.

Title:

Translational Supramolecular Chemistry

Abstract: Supramolecular chemistry is about contacts between molecules. Translational supramolecular chemistry expects that offering new ways to get into contact on the molecular level will provide access to new structures and functions, which ultimately will allow us to tackle otherwise elusive challenges in science and society. In this spirit, new interactions have been introduced to catalysis: Anion-π interactions in 2013, followed by chalcogen bonds in 2017 and pnictogen bonds in 2018. Several reactions and catalytic systems have been realized by now (foldamers, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, artificial enzymes, electric fields, lipid bilayer membranes). Emergent properties include the breaking of the Baldwin rules and autocatalytic brevetoxin-like polyether cyclizations in π-acidic surfaces. The same chalcogen bonds were the key to build mechanosensitive fluorescent probes that change color like lobsters during cooking. The resulting “fluorescent flippers” are the first small-molecule probes that can image physical forces in living cells. Mechanobiological changes in membrane tension can now be imaged throughout, from mitochondrial fission, endocytosis, secretory pathway, nuclear envelope to morphogenesis in early mammalian embryos. Addressing a current need in the life sciences, they had to be commercialized to assure distribution. Flipper probes are thus as an example for the direct translation of demanding supramolecular chemistry principles into products that do well on the market. The third example for the spirit of translational supramolecular chemistry focuses on dynamic covalent exchange cascades to find new ways to enter into cells. The resulting thiol-mediated uptake emerges as complex network that encodes for cell penetration in the broadest sense, working from genome editing in live animals to general cytosolic delivery into deep tissue, explaining the mystery of FDA-approved antisense oligonucleotide phosphorothioates, affording inhibitors for the cellular entry of pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 – but how does it really work?

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

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SHIMAは、沖縄県内の高校生を対象に、島の生態系や文化の持続可能性について学ぶ、毎年開催している科学教育アウトリーチプログラムです。

恩納村×OIST　こどもかがく教室2022

8月15日（月）～19日（金）

09：00～10：30

Cosmos episode 6: Travellers' Tales

National holiday

Andrew Mathas, University of Sydney Title: Content systems and KLR algebras

Dr. Kerstin Lenk, Graz University of Technology. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Young Researchers. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration.

Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan: 22 July - 20 August 2022

Title: Super Resolution Imaging with Metamaterials

Speaker: Jodi Thomas, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD Australia.

Hosted by: Professor Timothy Ravasi, OIST Marine Climate Change Unit

Abstract: The uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean is causing seawater CO2 levels to rise, changing ocean chemistry in a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA can affect a variety of physiological processes, life history traits and behaviours of fish and marine invertebrates. As invertebrates comprise the vast majority of marine diversity, are essential for key ecosystem processes and support human livelihoods, OA-induced effects of marine invertebrates could have ecological, social and economic consequences.(...)

Seminar by Haruka Osaki, Postdoc at Kyoto University

Date: August 5th

Time: 3pm - (30-40 mins Lecture and 10-20mins QA session)

Zoom: Meeting:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/ 74391178937?pwd=7nClhiDi4S- 7j5Hq6BTKHy0uhMrMv9.1 For questions please contact: egu@oist.jp

Dr. Merav Stern, Hebrew University. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Uke night! Maybe on the beach!

Dr. Kerstin Lenk, Graz University of Technology. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field. Language: English

Prof. Atsushi Kaneda, Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University

Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

Date & Time: [Lecture 3] 09:00-10:30, 29th (Fri)

Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom

[Seminar] Dr. Valentina Basoli "Prospective in cartilage regeneration: development of in vitro osteoarthritis model for testing drugs and sensors"

Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

Date & Time: [Lecture 2] 09:00-10:00, 28th (Thu)

Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom

Zoom meeting: Meeting ID: 917 8612 0273 Passcode: 870713

Abstract: This short lecture series will first cover a few basic concepts in nano-optics and fluorescence microscopy. Advanced optical imaging techniques including confocal, multiphoton, and metamaterials-assistant super-resolution microscopies will then be surveyed. Coverage of selected topics is as follows.

Wave optics Metamaterials Fluorescence microscopy Super-resolution microscopy Brief overview of quantum optics and fluorescence imaging

Profile : Yeon Ui Lee is an assistant professor at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Her research interests include, but not limited to, nanophotonics and super-resolution imaging, and she has an excellent record in the research field of metamaterial assisted illumination nanoscopies. Prof. Yeon Ui Lee received her Ph.D. degree from Ewha Womans University, South Korea, in 2015. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego before she got tenured. Here at OIST in Síle Nic Chormaic Unit she is looking forward to fruitful interactions and collaborations. She will be visiting until August 20th, please don’t hesitate to get in touch: yeonuilee@cbnu.ac.kr

Speaker: Yeon Ui Lee, Ph. D Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

A series of lectures: Basic concepts of nano-optics and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

Date & Time: [Lecture 1] 09:00-11:00, 27th (Wed)

Location: E48, Level E, Lab 4 & Zoom

Title: Are black holes and particles the same thing?

Abstract: I'll discuss the similarities between fundamental particles, thermal systems and black holes. We will play some quantitative games to see exactly how black holes are different from particles in the real world.

Having paid the real world our respects, we will talk about how black holes and fundamental particles *are* the same in string theory - a story rarely covered in popular propaganda, but central to the second superstring revolution. Funny enough, it allows for the "discovery" of new particles through writing down new black hole solutions.

I will then advertise my current work, in which I'm doing exactly that for string theory's wonky cousin, Higher-Spin Gravity.

By Faculty Affairs Office/ Faculty Lunchtime Seminar Coordinators

NEW DATE Due to weather: FRIDAY, JULY 22

Title: OIST Activities Fair & Art Market | Date : Friday, July 22nd | Time : 4:00-7:00pm

The colloquium will be held once a month online. Each event consists of a one-hour talk on mathematics followed by a one-hour diversity panel discussion session. Please register before July 18, 5 pm. Click here to register!

Speaker : Professor Motoko Kotani, Tohoku University

Part I Title : Discrete geometric analysis and its application Abstract: Discrete geometric analysis is an attempt to discretize geometric analysis. Mathematics is often said “a common language of science”. As our world consists of atoms, which we consider as discrete objects, developing language to describe discrete objects, their geometric structures in particular, is important. I would like to discuss our challenge to establish discrete geometric analysis and its application to other science.

Part II

Have fun in interacting with people from different interests.

Uke 'til you puke with the finest bunch of ukesters on this side of the Pacific.

Sinead Lyle, University of East Anglia Title: Rouquier blocks for Ariki-Koike algebras

Prof. Dana Ballard, The University of Texas in Austin. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Alice Dell'Arciprete, University of East Anglia Title: Scopes equivalence for blocks of Ariki-Koike algebras

National holiday