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

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

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.

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

Application open: June 24, 2014 Application close: July 20, 2014

"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

Nick Ross is a well-known UK TV and radio presenter. This colloquium is open to public. The talk will be in English, but Japanese interpretation will NOT be provided.

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).

OIST Workshop organized by Prof. Alexander Mikheyev (Ecology and Evolution Unit)

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

Application deadline: July 15, 2014

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

Seminar by Dr. Frank Abild-Pedersen from Stanford University 10:00-11:00, Oct 02

Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Psychology, University of Otago. English with no interpretation. 講演会は英語のみになります。

Prof. Naoyuki Haba, Department of Physics and Material Science, Shimane University.

Dr. Saar Kirmayer, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science

Join us for September's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Dynamics Unit (Denis Konstantinov) and the Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit (Matthias Wolf).

OIST Special Seminar by Prof Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France. Everyone is encouraged to attend and take advantage of this very special chance.

Dr. Hongping Wei, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, will give a talk about synaptic plasticity in zebrafish retina. Everyone is welcome.

Prof. Yosuke Mukoyama, Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Shioko Kimura, Laboratory of Metabolism, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA

Harrison Leong, Sr. Staff Engineer, Software, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., U.S.A.

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 Aug 2014, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Meeting Room C016, Level C, Lab 1 Speaker: Ms. Maika Takita, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Title: Clocked electron transport across surface of superfluid helium: Towards single electron control

Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

A seminar of general interest to all imaging scientists, especially those in the life sciences. Prof Mark Ellisman is the Director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (UC San Diego) and the founding director of the UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems.

Join us for August's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit (Tsumoru Shintake) and the Information Processing Biology Unit (Takashi Murayama).

Harrison Leong is Sr. Staff Software Engineer, ThermoFisher Scientific Inc.

Dr. Christian Hansel, Principal Investigator, Hansel Lab - Neurobiology of learning & memory, University of Chicago. Language : English only.

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh