Title: Directed Evolution under genetic codes with reduced-size alphabet or with low fidelity

Speaker: Prof. Daisuke Kiga from Waseda University

Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University

Learn about the latest trends in high-performance VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (仮想デスクトップ基盤)) and next-generation virtualization infrastructures, and share technical information. The conference consists of presentation sessions and hands-on workshops. | Language: Japanese (all presentation materials will be in English) | Program: https://www.highperformancevdi.com/en/meetings/2019/program.html | All scientific sessions are open to OIST members (additional fees apply for working meals)

Title : Neural Representations of Natural Self-Motion: Implications for Perception & Action

Speaker: Dr. Kathleen E. Cullen

Affiliation: The Johns Hopkins University

The workshop is going to be held on September 26, 2019,

Come and join a lively discussion with successful KAKENHI recipients.

Language: English

Name: Taewoo Ryu

Affiliation: APEC Climate Center, Republic of Korea

Abstract:

Elevated ocean temperature exacerbates physiology and survival of many marine organisms. Recent studies showed that some species can fully restore the physiological traits either within one or after multiple generations depending on the populations. Uncovering cellular mechanisms of such phenotypic plasticity is important to understand and predict species’ or populations’ response to climate change. We tried to identify epigenetic mechanisms related to within- and transgenerational plasticity using the high and low latitude population of Great Barrier Reef fish, Acanthochromis Polyacanthus , which showed thermal acclimation at the first or second generations, respectively. By sequencing genome and DNA methylomes of fish reared in the control and future predicted temperatures (+1.5 and +3 °C) at the whole genome level, differentially methylated genomic regions and related genes were identified. Functions related to nutrient homeostasis, cardiovascular capacity, and development and were significantly enriched among differentially methylated genes of high latitude F1 population, which were scarcely enriched among those of low latitude F2 population, indicating highly coordinated regulation of these functions for within- compared to transgenerational plasticity.

Language: English

Stoffel Janssens (Postdoc at Fried Unit)

Prof. Paul S. Maddox, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prof. Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS

Prof. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

09:00-10:30 - OIST new faculties' talk 11:00-12:20 - OIST faculties' talk 12:20-13:30 - Poster viewing 13:30-15:30 - OIST researchers/students' talk

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: 19 May 2019 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - Website: https://groups.oist.jp/cqd

Internal Seminar by Charles Plessy, Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit

Internal Seminar

Dong Cao, Information Processing Biology Unit, Detection of circular RNAs in the neurons of C. elegans

For OIST members:

Users meeting and Seminar are registration free. We look forward to seeing you at the venue.

For Non-OIST members:

Please contact ias@oist.jp for Seminar sign up. (Users meeting is an internal event.)

Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Biology Departments of Neurobiology & Neurology Director, Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology Northwestern University

Dr. Nadezhda Savina, Leading Researcher, Novosibirsk State University

Seminar/Discussion by Prof. Fed W. Turek on " Mechanisms Linking Circadian Clocks to Sleep, Feeding Cycles, Seasonal Rhythms, and the Impact of Artificial Light at Night on Human Rhythms "

Prof. Loredano Pollegioni, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Prof. Boris Ryabko, Head of Laboratory of data protection, ICT, Siberian Branch of RAS.

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Han Yan (Quantum Matter). Title: "Three types of phases".

Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University

“QuickFix”- learn how to use LinedIn in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Slava Lysov (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Topological Quantum Field Theories".

“QuickFix”- improve your on-line LinkedIn profile in an interactive and a time-efficient manner!

Prof.Arkady Fedorov, Associate Professor, Chief Investigator and Node Manager, ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS), School of Mathematics and Physics, the University of Queensland, Australia

Joint Math and Theoretical physics seminar on Chern-Simons theory, Knot invariants and Volume conjecture. Vyacheslav Lysov will be leading the discussion.

This month, our guest will be Felix Rehnberg (R&D Cluster Programs Section) who will tak about an exciting new OIST business development program.

Seminar

Joint Seminar featuring faculty and researchers from OIST and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan to discuss research advances for applications in the life sciences. Open to all.

Lunchtime "fireside chat" about starting up a company based on university research. Featuring: Professor Margaret Dah-Tsyr Chang from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.

public presentation

Davide Chiuchiu (Postdoc at Pigolotti Unit)

[Speaker] Prof. Rene Pecnik, Process and Energy Department , Delft University of Technology

"The first ten hours in the life of a frog"

Theoretical Physics Seminar. Speaker: Sudip Ghosh (Quantum Gravity). Title: "Web of Dualities in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory".

SEMINAR by Dr. Akihiro Funamizu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Zador Laboratory - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Title : Rheology of dense ellipsoidal grains

Speaker: Prof. Ben Nadler

Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Learn about writing an English cover letter for academic science positions.

Target audience: interns, Ph.D students and Post Docs who are interested in continuing their career in academia.

Speaker: Margaret Howell (Language Education Section, OIST)

Language: English

Dr. Samuel Ramsey, USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab

Speaker: Ryuta Nakajima, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design, University of Minnesota Duluth

Internal Seminar Series

Speaker: Esther Lai, Brain Mechanisms for Behaviour (Arbuthnott) Unit

Title: Inputs to neurons in layer 1 of mouse cerebral cortex

Abstract: In rodents, a major output from the basal ganglia arrives in layer 1 (L1) of frontal cortex. Neocortical L1, the most superficial layer of cerebral cortex, is composed of...

Internal Seminar Series

Seminar

Pavel Belov, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia