FY2015 Annual Report

 

The FY2015 members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2015 Annual Report produced by the Science and Technology Group. This work is described below, and reveals a diverse program of research and cultural development complementary to the rest of the OIST programme.

Please refer to the links on the name for each member's Annual Report FY2015.

 

 

STG Associate

Discipline

Brief description of project

 

1.

Mirona Chirienco

Geology

Past climate and environmental change

 

2.

Juanita Choo

Environmental Science

Human impact on the Amazon rainforest and Okinawa

 

3.

Anya Dani

Art Conservation

Preservation of cultural objects in Okinawa museum, especially pottery and old musical instruments

 

4.

Charlotte Fournier

Biophysics

The molecular dynamics of the epidermal growth factor receptor in cell membranes

 

5.

Garth Ilsley

Genomics

Regulation of gene expression

    6.  Eugene Khaskin

Organometallics

Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes

 

 7.

Reina Komiya

Biology

Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells

 

8.

André Leier

Systems Biology

Development of mathematical tools and models for biological and physiological processes

 

9.

Cecilia Lu

Neuroscience

Homeostatic   regulation   of   neural connectivity

 

10.

Yoko Nomura

Biotechnology

1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs

2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers

 

11.

Payal Shah

Environmental Economics

Analyze the social and environmental consequences of natural resource management policies and formulate optimal strategies to address environmental challenges such as climate change