Past Events
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
Seminar: Ultrastructural readout of in vivo synaptic activity for functional connectomics by Dr Arnd Roth, UCL
Speaker: Dr Arnd Roth (University College London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research), hosted by Computational Neurosciece Unit (Erik De Schutter)
[Seminar] "Harnessing Sunlight: A Villager’s Dream" by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UCSB
Seminar by Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Director of Center for Polymers and Organic Solids; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen
Presidential Lecture by Jens Nielsen: New insight into cellular metabolism from the use of mathematical models
Career Talk: A few learnings from my career in leadership at University by Dr. Dina Petranovic Nielsen
In my talk I will briefly walk you through my career development from my native country Croatia, via France, Denmark, Sweden and USA and I will explain what I wanted to achieve in my career: why and how I made the decisions that I did, and how those have served me. I will select a few main learnings that can be used as advice for everyone. I will use the example of my current job as the Chief Science Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer and Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost to explain how I work in the context of my union (EU), country (Denmark), in the context of my University (Technical University of Denmark) and the context of my research center (Center for Biosustainability), and how hopefully it all comes together to benefit the world.
Graduation Ceremony 2025
The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation
For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
TSVP Talk: "Mechanical Problem Solving in Mice" by Henning Sprekeler
TSVP Talk 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).
【May 22th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【5/22】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
2025/05/22(Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00
[Seminar] Classical Rotation of Quantum Spins and Quantum Rotations of Classical Particles
Dr Alexander Wood, The University of Melbourne
Seminar "Nonlinear dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows" by Prof. Jae Sung Park
[Speaker] Prof. Jae Sung Park, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor of Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[Seminar]"Inflammation and Fibrosis in Pericyte-Deficient Retina" by Prof.Akiyoshi Uemur_Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciencesa
-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
-Uemura Eye Clinic
[Seminar] "Endosymbiotic Apicomplexans of Marine Holobionts: bridging ecology & evolution" by Dr. Anthony Bonacolta
Dr. Anthony M. Bonacolta, Postdoctoral Reseasrch Fellow, The Keeling Lab, The University of British Columbia.
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
[Seminar] "Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications" by Prof. Paolo Salani
Title: Preservation of concavity properties by the Dirichlet heat flow and applications
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Salani (University of Florence)
[Seminar] "Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity" by Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige
Title: Initial traces and solvability of porous medium equation with power nonlinearity
Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Ishige (University of Tokyo)
TSVP Talk: "Experimentally Dealing With the Impacts of an Increasing Number of Factors: Global Change and Soil as a Case Study" by Matthias C. Rillig
TSVP Talk 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).
[OCQT Seminar] Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) is pleased to invite you to another seminar in the OCQT Seminar series. This time, we are excited to host Dr. Andreas M. D. Thomasen from QunaSys. He will deliver a talk on: "Architectures and algorithms for early FTQC"
[Seminar] How was group transfer potential used in emerging metabolism? by Prof. Shawn McGlynn
Speaker: Prof. Shawn E. McGlynn, ELSI, Institute of Science Tokyo
万華鏡: OISTフォトグラフィック・ソサイエティによるポップアップ写真展
本展では、技法もレベルも表現もさまざまな写真が並びますが、それぞれが不思議と似た感情を映し出しています。風景から内面の深い自己表現まで、きらめくぼかしの中にそっと繋がる瞬間が散りばめられています。
ORC Schrödinger's Cake Assembly
We would like to invite you to to our next ORC Schrödinger's Cake Assembly during which there might be cake, but you will only know if you come (online version not available).
Location: C209 (Center Building)
Time: 12:00 PM, May 14 (Wednesday). Please go ahead and bring your lunch with you!
OIST Representation Theory Seminar
Evolution Seminar - On intracellular structure and disease
Speaker: Dan Kehila, Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, OIST
[Seminar] MLDS Unit Seminar 2025-1 by Mr. Niklas Muennighoff, Stanford University
Speaker: Mr. Niklas Muennighoff (Stanford University)
Title: s1: Simple test-time scaling
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
TSVP Talk: "Isoperimetric Inequality: A Force Shaping the Real World" by Paolo Salani
TSVP Talk 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).
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
[Seminar] Prof. Naomichi Hatano "Non-Hermiticity and non-Markovianity of open quantum systems"
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and Researchers interested in the field. Language: English Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).
[Seminar] "Exploring novel superconducting properties in few-layer Td-MoTe2" by Dr. Taro Wakamura
Target audience: Interns, Students, PostDocs, and those who are interested in the same research field.
Language: English
Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/92164277280?pwd=EtClSiF0mouaCFNocZaC4b5hz3GTRa.1&from=addon
The Provost Lecture Series 19
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
Seminar: "On the principle of quantum-enhanced multiphase metrology under the squeezing effect" by TSVP Visitor, Prof. Le Bin Ho, Tohoku University
TSVP visitor, Prof. Le Bin Ho, Tohoku University , will give a seminar "On the principle of quantum-enhanced multiphase metrology under the squeezing effect"
TSVP Talk: "Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Where universities should contribute in the education of MSc and PhD students" by Ros Taplin
TSVP Talk 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).
[Seminar] "The uncharted territory: the extreme evolutionary processes in planthopper symbioses" by Prof. Piotr Łukasik
Dr. Piotr Łukasik, Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
"Exploring Intracellular Symbiosis Through Cockroach Bacteriocytes: Histology, Vertical Transmission, and Single-cell Transcriptomics" by Mr. Tomohito Noda from Tokyo University
Tomohito Noda
Ph.D. student The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Fukatsu Lab at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Abstract: Intracellular symbiosis, in which a host organism harbors a microbial symbiont within its cells, has been widely observed across diverse lineages. This phenomenon is intriguing not only within the context of individual symbiotic relationships, but also more broadly, as the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to trace back to microorganisms that were incorporated into host cells. Therefore, the study of intracellular symbiosis may provide insights to the understanding of a crucial trigger for the acquisition of novel biological functions and evolutionary modifications. Despite the wide interest in intracellular symbiosis, the mechanisms and adaptations required to harbor microbial symbionts remain largely elusive. One contributing factor is that the majority of symbiotic organs are highly specialized and distinct from the rest of the body, and thus lack a clear “non-symbiotic” subject to compare with.
~発見!やんばるから広がる科学の世界~「カガクジカン」
科学技術週間 にちなんで開催される科学イベントです。
日時:2025年4月19日(土) 10:00~16:00
会場:名護博物館 1階 (名護市大中四丁目20番50号)
入場:無料 ※博物館の2階展示室見学の場合は有料
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!
[Seminar] "Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark
"Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark
The Provost Lecture Series 18
[Seminar] Toward Quantum-Enhanced Metrology for Gravitational Wave Detection
Mr. Yohei Nishino, Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo
[Seminar] Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?
Title: Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?
Speaker: Dr. Shoi Shi, Principal Investigator, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba
Language: English
[Seminar] "Mirror Image Oligonucleotides: New Opportunities in Biotechnology" by Dr. Jonathan T. Sczepanski
Dr. Jonathan T. Sczepanski, Professor, Texas A&M University. Language: English,
Commemorative Event for the Signing of the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding – Collaboration Agreement) between AIST and OIST
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT) and AIST will jointly host a commemorative event for the Signing of the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding – Collaboration Agreement) . The event will highlight our collaboration in the field of quantum science. Additionally, a symposium will be held to explore how quantum technology could transform future societies and corporate activities.
Wolbachia 2025
OIST Innovation Open Hour
OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!













































