Seminar "Homeobox genes and animal evolution: duplication, mutation and divergence"

Hans-Peter Lipp, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich

Date : December 9 ^th (Fri), 2016 Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: D015, Lab1 Level D Speaker: Prof. C.K. Chan (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Title: Effects of dissolved gases in the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in water

Abstract: Normally, carbon nano-tubes (CNT) cannot be dispersed easily in water because of the hydrophobicity of carbon surfaces. Usually, surfactants are added to form a stable CNT/Water dispersion. Here we report our experiments to explore the effects of dissolved gases in the water on the formation of CNT/water dispersion. In the experiments, multi-wall CNT are dispersed by sonification in water with and without degassing by the freeze-pump-thaw method. Contrary to the formation of stable surfactant-free dispersion...

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The Perils of Perfectionism by Prof. Roz Shafran, University College London, UK

Wednesday 7 ^th December 2016 5pm - 6.30pm, Room C209 Centre Building

Open to the whole OIST Community: Please register by following the link

Dr. Benoit Girard, ISIR, UPMC/CNRS in France.　Registration: NOT required.

Dr. Benoit Girard, ISIR, UPMC/CNRS in France

Registration: NOT required.

Seminar: 'Transcriptome analysis, from bulk to single cells and single molecules' by Dr. Charles Plessy, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies Division of Genomic Technologies

Internal Seminar : Clive Darwell, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Evan Economo)

Title : Biodiversity studies: into the omics era

Internal Seminar : Chris Roome, Postdoctoral Researcher, Optical Neuroimaging Unit (Bernd Kuhn)

Prof. Jonathan Roiser, Neuroscience and Mental Health at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), London. Registration: NOT required.

Amira Sminar By Matthieu NIKLAUS, Product Marketing Engineer FEI Japan

Prof. Eugene Kroll, Research Associate Professor, University of Montana, Missoula

Dr. Alexander Revzin, Professor, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Mayo Clinic, USA

Dr. Vincent Daria, Leader of the Neurophotonics Research Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Australia

Dr. Hitoshi Kitaguchi, Deputy Director, Research Center for Functional Materials/ National Institute for Materials Science.

Professor Yoshiyuki Asai, Yamaguchi University

Professror Akira Funahashi, Keio University

This event is open to all. Event in English (no interpretation). For details contact organizers.

Internal Seminar: Carlos Gutierrez, Postdoctoral Researcher, Neural Computation Unit (Kenji Doya)

Dr. Daisuke Umeno, Associate Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan , PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan E-mail address: umeno@faculty.chiba-u.jp

Speaker: Bret Grasse, Aquarist, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Dr. Richard D. Wood, Professor The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis The Virginia Harris Cockrell Cancer Research Center https://gsbs.uth.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/faculty-profiles.htm?id=1347028

Nanoparticles by Design Unit (Sowwan Unit) would like to announce a seminar by Prof. Simon Brown

Speaker : Prof. Simon Brown, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

Title : Percolating Cluster Devices: Possible Neuromorphic Applications

Abstract :

When clusters (nanoparticles) are randomly deposited on a surface they produce percolating films which have remarkable electrical properties. [1] Here we will focus on devices that contain percolating films of Sn clusters, and especially those that are deliberately constructed so as to guarantee that the film is close to the percolation threshold (onset of conduction). In these devices quantum mechanical tunnelling...

Seminar by Prof. Keisuke Totsuka (YITP, Kyoto U), Tue 8th Nov 2-3PM at D015.

Internal Seminar: Yuuri Yasuoka, Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Genomics Unit (Satoh Unit)

Internal Seminar: Alexander Mikheyev, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolution Unit (Mikheyev Unit)

Title: "Magnetic Imaging by Lorentz TEM and electron holography"

Speaker: Prof. Hyun Soon Park

Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Abstract:

Observing and characterizing the magnetic microstructures on a nanometer scale are of vital importance for understanding material property and its application to engineering. Among the repertoire of so-called “magnetic imaging” methods, imaging techniques in transmission electron microscope (TEM) are Lorentz microscopy and electron holography, which can be implemented in a standard TEM. These techniques have been widely utilized to image magnetic microstructures and the magnetization process in situ. In the Fresnel (out-of-focus) method of Lorentz microscopy, domain walls (DWs), vortices and skyrmions (nanoscale spin...

As OIST is encouraging researchers to obtain external funding, this is a unique occasion for JST, the second biggest funding agency in Japan, and OIST, to get to know each other. This meeting is open to ALL OIST RESEARCHERS and MEMBERS of the OIST community.

Seminar "Targeted approaches for studying ecology important microbial eukaryotes"

Speaker: Prof. Karla Heidelberg

Affiliation: University of Southern California

Abstract: Microbes represent the single largest source of evolutionary and biochemical diversity on the planet. They are the major agents for cycling carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other elements through ecosystems. Most attention for studying environmental microbes has focused on the bacteria, and to a lesser extent on the archaea and viruses, because of the relative ease with which these assemblages can be analyzed and studied genetically. In contrast, single-celled, eukaryotic microbes (the protists) have received much less attention, in part due to large and complex genomes and comparatively sparse public databases of known genes. In this talk I will...

Dr Yannick Saintigny. French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Research Laboratory and Open Facility for Radiation Biology with Accelerated Ions (LARIA). Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator (GANIL).

Seminar "Origins of Algal Plastids"

Speaker: Professor Hwan Su Yoon

Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Abstract:

Organellogenesis and its associated endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) are driving forces of eukaryote genome evolution. However, little is known about early events in plastid origin because the primary plastid endosymbiosis in Plantae (red, green, and glaucophyte algae and plants) occurred >1 billion years ago. In this seminar, I will introduce red algal diversity and evolutionary history as a major primary endosymbiosis group, then compare a recent case of another primary endosymbiosis in photosynthetic Paulinella to better understand early stage of algal origin.

Red algae (Rhodophyta) include more than 7,000 species thrive in...

Dr. Sergey Taskaev, Leading Researcher, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

Dr. Alexander Ivanov, Deputy Director, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. Language: English.

OIST Workshop - Application Deadline: Aug 21, 2016 - OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions - website: https://groups.oist.jp/mtpu

Internal Seminar: Angela White, Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Systems Unit (Busch Unit)

Internal Seminar: Georgy Filonenko, Postdoctoral Researcher, Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit (Khusnutdinova Unit)

Intro to GPU Programming by Jan Moren (OIST HPC Team)

"Professor Jemal Guven, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, "Language: Engrish. No interpretation."

LabVIEW Seminar by Ryuji Kuwashima (National Instruments Japan Corporation)

Seminar: "Negative resistance and other wonders of viscous electronics in graphene" by Prof. Gregory Falkovich

Allinea Hands-on Session by Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Enhance research production using Allinea Performance Reports

Presenter: Florent Lebeau (Allinea Software Ltd.)

Seminar title: "Machine Learning of Motor Skills for Robots: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis and Manipulation"

Speaker: Prof. Jan Peters

Affiliation: Universität Darmstadt Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Abstract

Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goal is to create robots that can learn tasks triggered by environmental context or higher level instruction. However, learning techniques have yet to live up to this promise as only few methods manage to scale to high-dimensional manipulator or humanoid robots. In this talk, we investigate a general framework suitable for learning motor...

Sculptor Rinus Roelofs. Language: English. No interpretation.

The workshop is open to the research community for participation.

Professor Itaru HAMACHI Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto and CREST/JST, JAPAN http://www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hamachi-lab/index.php?members%2Fhamachi​

OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (show your OIST ID card at the entrance). For non-OIST members, please register at https://indico.oist.jp/PG16

Internal Seminar: Bill Söderström, Postdoctoral Researcher, Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Skoglund Unit)