[Seminar] 'Novel molecular targets for breast and lung cancer stem cells', Prof. Noriko Gotoh, Feb 18th.

3 days of lecture "Quantum Hydrodynamics and Turbulence" by Makoto Tsubota (Professor, Osaka City University, Japan)

Language: English. Open to the public. (1) “Introduction to OIST BNCT" by Profs. Kumada (Univ of Tsukuba) and Yoshioka (KEK, OIST), (2) "New Technology for X-ray and Gamma-ray Imaging" by Profs. Takahashi (JAXA) and Arai (KEK, OIST), and (3) "Our Future: Beyond Metastasis" by Prof. Sugawara (OIST).

Seminar: Prof. J. Paul Bolam, from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Oxford. Title: "Dopamine neurons, synapses and susceptibility in Parkinson’s disease"

Seminar: Prof Catharine Rankin from UBC talks on the complexity of habituation, the simplest form of learning

Language:English. No interpretation will be provided.

Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Gene Regulation, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

Alessandro Villa. Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, Neuroeconomics and Computer Science, University of Lausanne ; President of the European Neural Network Society

Science and Technology Group invites you to a seminar by Ms.Melissa Carr from Masterwork Conservation.

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 February's first Internal Seminar Series on Feb. 6, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Cell Signal Unit (Tadashi Yamamoto) and the Physics and Biology Unit (Jonathan Miller).

Prof Timothy Ziman, ILL/Université Joseph Fourier Seminar on skew scattering of electrons including effects of critical spin fluctuations on anomalous and spin Hall effects in ferromagnetic alloys.

Leon Roose, HNEI, University of Hawaii

Seminar will be conductedin English and open to public.

Christian Peeters, CNRS Research Professor, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie Paris

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 January's second Internal Seminar Series on Jan. 23, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit (Fujie Tanaka) and the Quantum Systems Unit (Thomas Busch).

Lecturer: Prof Fam Le Kien, TUV, Austria.

Klaus von Klitzing (1985 Nobel Prize Laureate) will give an introductory talk about his discovery at OIST Workshop DiRT2D. All are welcome!

*Seminar Time and Venue have been changed* "Influenza or Ebola– which is the greater threat?" Seminar by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka

OIST Workshop - All OIST members are welcome to attend the sessions

Daniel Sternheimer, Visiting Research Fellow, Rikkyo University, Tokyo. English with no Japanese interpretation.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Professor Takashi Yonetani, University of Pennsylvania

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate. URL: https://groups.oist.jp/adna

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

Seminar by Prof. Henrik Ronnow (EPFL) on Jan 13th 2-4pm @ C016. All is welcome !

Join us for January's first Internal Seminar Series on Jan. 09, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250. This month's seminars feature the Continuum Physics Unit (Gustavo Gioia) and the Computational Neuroscience Unit (Erik De Schutter).

Prof. Tuan Tran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Language: English. All are welcome.

[Seminar] 'Novel roles of ribosome ubiquitination in quality control systems', Prof. Toshifumi Inada, Dec 22nd.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Prof. Hiroshi TOMODA, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University. Language: English. OKINAWA Intellectual Cluster Program

Prof. Alexander Kusenko, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, and Senior Scientist, Kavli IPMU. English with no Japanese interpretation. Everyone is welcome (first talk is targeted for general audience), but content of the second seminar will be very specialized in physics.

President Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University Hakodate

Dr. Tomoharu Yasuda, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin. Dec 16(Tue) at C016. All are welcome.

Language: English Reservation is required. Local business people can register at the link below. https://groups.oist.jp/bds/2014-entrepreneurial-training-program-application-form-businesses

Join us for December's Internal Seminar Series on Dec. 12, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Brain Mechanism for Behavior Unit (Gordon Arbuthnott) and the Fluid Mechanics Unit (Pinaki Chakraborty).

Vires Acquirit Eundo "We gather strength as we move" The University of Tokyo - OIST Graduate University Joint Symposium 12-13 December, @C209, OIST Campus

Seminar by Prof. Ian Affleck (Uni. British Columbia) at C209, (Mon) Dec 8th 2-3pm. All is welcome !

OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Noriyuki Satoh (Marine Genomics Unit)

Speaker: Mr Jinjin Du State Key Laoratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, China Seminar Title: Measurement and control of single atoms in a cavity QED system

Seminar 'An Impact of GTP-Metabolism on Cancers and Metabolic Diseases'

ENTER IMPORTANT DETAILS HERE, SUCH AS SPEAKER INFO, "Language: Japanese. No interpretation will be provided.", "Participation by invitation only.", "Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/reserve for more information and registration.", ETC.

Join us for November's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Microbiology and Biochemistry of Secondary Metabolites Unit (Holger Jenke-Kodama) and the Formation and Regulation of Neuronal Connectivity Unit (David Van Vactor).

Seminar by Prof. Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University), Thu 27th Nov @ 1:30pm (C015)

Seminar by Dr. Frank Pollmann (MPI-pks Dresden) : "Spin Liquids on the Kagome Lattice" Tue, 25th Nov @ 2-3pm (C016), All is welcome.

Learn to think from a business perspective and also work in teams to create a business plan for a new business rooted in Okinawa. The program will consist of 2 lectures on the design thinking process, 2 workshops to create prototypes for your businesses, and 1 final presentation. There will be participants from the University of Ryukyus and the Okinawa National College of Technology. Participants will also have the chance to get advice on their business plans from local business people as well as from the mentors. So if you want to learn the design thinking process, or want to create a business plan with your fellow teammates, this is your chance to do so!

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Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Dr. Renu Sharma, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Date & Time: Thursday, Nov 20th, 13:00-14:00

Venue: D014, Lab 1

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Speaker: Dr. Renu Sharma, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Title: Correlative microscopy for in-situ characterization of catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments

Abstract :

In recent years the environmental transmission scanning electron microscope (ESTEM) has been successfully employed to elucidate the structural and chemical changes occurring in catalyst nanoparticles under reactive environments. While...

Join us for November's 1st Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in C210. This month's seminars feature the Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Ibrahim Mukhles Sowwan) and the Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Ulf Skoglund).

【Seminar 】Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine by Jonathan Trent, Ph.D. NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz.