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

Seminar by Prof. Furong Zhu, Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Seminar by Dr. Shiyong Wang, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

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).

Seminar by Prof. Tae-Woo Lee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Seminar by Prof. Kilwon Cho, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

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

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

Professor Takashi Yonetani, University of Pennsylvania

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.

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

Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand

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.

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).

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

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'

Prof. Zwi N. Berneman, MD PhD FRCP - Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Language: English

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.

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.

Jonathan Trent, Ph.D, NASA Ames Research Center, UC. Santa Cruz. His second seminar, "Lecture 2: Inside story on the structure and function of a living nano-machine" will be on Wed Nov 12.

Seminar by Prof. Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK

"Population genomics and the nature of domesticated citrus and cassava" by Professor Daniel Rokhsar; Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley

Speaker: Prof. Bruce W. Fouke (AAPG Distinguished Lecture) (Director, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center & Professor of Geology, Microbiology and the Institute for Genomic University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Join us for October's 2nd Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B503. This month's seminars feature the Collective Interactions Unit (Mahesh Bandi) and the Marine Genomics Unit (Nori Satoh).

Seminar by Prof. Andreas Laeuchli (Unv.Innsbruck), 2-3pm, Oct 31 (Fri) @ C016. All is welcome!

Language : English

Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Seminar by Dr. Kazuhiro Nawa, ISSP, University of Tokyo. Oct 21 (Tue) at C016. All is welcome.

The use of field programmable gate arrays for implementing embedded vision algorithms.

Join us for October's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Auditorium. This month's seminars feature the Developmental Signalling Unit (Mary Ann Price) and the Molecular Genetics Unit (Sydney Brenner).

Dr. Steven Rosanoff - database engineer and software developer for UniProt, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, England; Dr. Alessandra Vigilante, Luscombe Group, University College London UCL Genetics Institute, Dept of Genetics, Evolution & Environment

Dear all,

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by, Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, American University of Sharjah.

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Date & Time: Friday, October 10, 10:00-11:00

Venue: C016, Lab 1

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Speaker: Prof. Ghaleb Husseini

American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates

Title: Drug Delivery and Ultrasound

Abstract : Chemotherapy is the most extensively used treatment in the fight against malignant neoplasms. Unfortunately, chemotherapy use is plagued with numerous side effects. These side effects are caused primarily because of the non-specific nature of the treatment as the drug is capable of killing normal and cancerous cells alike....

Seminar 'Wiring the Functional Brain' Prof. Hisashi Umemori.

Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga, World Premier International (WPI) Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China