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Title: Neurodegeneration and drug discovery in C. elegans

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Parker

Affiliation: CRCHUM - Université de Montréal

Abstract: In this talk, I will explain basics of the Seiberg-Witten equations and applications to topology. I will also mention about recent progress in the Seiberg-Witten Floer theory.

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Adaptive nonlinear control and learning dynamics with spiking networks

Seminar by Prof. Tuan Tran,School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Masakazu Igarashi

Title: The role of interhemispheric cortico-corticalconnections in bimanual coordination in the rats

Date&Time: January 16th, 14:00-15:00

Venue: C210, Level C, Ctr Bldg

Title: Undulatory locomotion and its control in C. : models and experiments

Speaker: Dr. Netta Cohen

Affiliation: University of Leeds

"Dr. Mutsuhiro Takekawa, Professor, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Language: English, no interpretation."

Title: Regulation of the Heat Shock Response and Proteostasis Networks in Aging and Disease

Speaker: Dr. Richard Morimoto

Affiliation: Northwestern University

Title: Functional compression at the C. elegans motor circuit

Speaker: Dr. Mei Zhen

Affiliation: University of Toronto

Mr. Sajid Ali, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Universiry of Technology, Sydney

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Jhon González, Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU)-Material Physics Center (MPC)

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Kazuto Kawamura

Title: Forward genetic screen for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants with a progressive decline in adult locomotor function

Date&Time: January 15th, 14:00-15:00

Venue: C210, Level C, Ctr Bldg

Speaker: Dr. Lei-Han Tang, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Complex Systems Division, Beijing Computational Science Research Center

Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Chao Tang, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University

Speaker: Prof. X.C. Xie, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University

Title: The functional organization and plasticity of rodent motor cortex

Speaker: Dr. Gordon Teskey

Affiliation: University of Calgary

Speaker: Prof. Enge Wang, International Center for Quantum Materials and School of Physics, Peking University & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

OIST Jointly-funded Symposium organized by OIST (Marine Biophysics Unit) and Scripps Institution of Oceonography | All scientific sessions open to OIST members (working meals are closed sessions) | For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Tosif Ahamed

Title: Capturing the nonlinear dynamics of animal behavior with Applications to the Nematode C. elegans

Date&Time: January 15th, 9:00-10:00

Venue: C210, Level C, Ctr Bldg

National holiday

那覇のジュンク堂書店にて行われている、OISTの研究者らによるサイエンストークシリーズ「衣食住」。

第4回目となる1月は、G0細胞ユニットの佐二木健一研究員が、科学技術が発展する世界に「やちむん」が教えてくれること　について講演を行う予定です。

Discussion of the recent articles: "Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence" and "Holographic duality from random tensor networks" led by Han Yan.

Kenji Katayama, Department of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University

Researchers and professors from universities as well as renowned energy companies from all over Japan come together to discuss their recent projects. All OIST members are welcome to attend. Presentations on Friday will be held in English, presentations on Saturday in Japanese.

Seminar by Prof. Matsueda, Vice President, NIT Sendai

The new issue of Kuroshio Magazine is out -- and available in print at today’s Teatime! Swing by Grano at 4pm to grab some tea, coffee and snacks and read up on the Current of OIST!

National holiday.

National holiday.

Katoori Chaat

Title: Maintenance of regulatory T cell stability by ubiquitin E3 ligases deltex1 and XIAP

Speaker: Professor Ming-Zong Lai

Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sincia

[Seminar]

Title: Electrokinetics and Plasmonics at NanoScale Singularities: Designing Next-Generation Molecular Diagnostics

Speaker: Professor Hsueh-Chia Chang

Institution: University of Notre Dame, USA

Title: Building Robots that Teach

Speaker: Brian Scassellati

Affiliation: Yale University

Prof. Gordon Berman, Emory University

Host: Stephens unit

When developing a drug, biomarker, or treatment approach, how will it actually work in patients, and how will it change the decisions that are made during treatment? Doctors, patients, and other stake holders each have different concerns about the costs/benefits at each stage of a medical treatment, and these concerns are not always effectively met. We focus on these issues in a teaching setting at Brown University (USA) as a lot of the tools for translating research into healthcare are generally relevant to how we do collaborative research.

Dr. Massimo Merighi Associate Head of Metabolic Engineering, Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston, MA, USA)

Rapid pathway prototyping for novel bio-based chemicals: Case Studies from Ginkgo Bioworks

In this Innovation Forum hosted talk, Ginkgo Bioworks Associate Head of Metabolic Engineering, Dr. Massimo Merighi, will discuss several case studies of pathways developed by Ginkgo, in particular one involving the engineering of a substrate co-feed in Escherichia coli , including a history of how this design cycle has evolved over time to take advantage of new technological developments.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Discussion of the recent article by T. Faulkner, M. Li and H. Wang "A modular toolkit for bulk reconstruction" by Sudip Ghosh.

Ginkgo Bioworks and the challenges of making biology easier to engineer

How an MIT spin-off company founded by 4 graduate students designs microbes for the fragrance, food, agriculture, and pharmceutical industries

Seminar: "Large-scale grain-boundary-free copper films for nanoplasmonics" & "Single-shot intensity-corrected phase tagging for weak carrier-envelope-phase effects" by Dr. Soo Hoon Chew, Pusan National University

Title: The mouth, the anus and the blastopore. Their questionable developmental and evolutionary relationships and the origin of the animal gut

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Hejnol

Affiliation: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway. Research Group Leader “Comparative Developmental Biology of Animals”

Seminar: " Interferometric time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy of few-femtosecond nanoplasmonic dynamics" by Dr. Alexander Gliserin, Pusan National University

Join us for the last Teatime of 2018! Come for the usual tea, coffee and snacks, stay to discuss New Year's Resolutions that we may or may not keep. In any case, maybe the mid-afternoon caffeine boost will inspire some big plans for the year ahead.

Have a safe holiday season everyone, and we'll see you at the next Teatime on January 10!

Title: Experimental and Translational MRI of Brain Reorganization after Stroke by Professor

Speaker: Professor Rick Dijkhuizen

Affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht

Title: ECM1 promotes differentiation of follicular helper T cells by antagonizing IL-2-STAT5 pathway

Speaker: Professor Bing Sun

Affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

This interactive presentation suggests tools and examples to help scientists communicate in ways that resonate with people outside of their field about what they do and why it matters. The seesion will cover general principles in how to craft clear and conversational statements, and engage with your audience.

Title: High-resolution Rodent fMRI at Ultrahigh Fields

Speaker: Professor Seong-Gi Kim

Affiliation: Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon, Korea; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea