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: 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!

The recent developments in quantum science and technology now allow us to control systems at the quantum level, and we have began to see the quantum world in ways we have never imagine before. In this workshop, co-organized by KAKENHI program " Science of Hybrid Quantum Systems " in Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (新学術領域, Shin-Gakujutsu-Ryouiki), international experts on various hybrid quantum systems will gather to discuss the recent developments as well as future perspectives.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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: 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

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

Speaker: Professor Rick Dijkhuizen

Affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht

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

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.

Dr. Nitin Upadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Flame University.

Thesis Public Presentation

Presenter: Hiroaki Hamada

Title: Serotonergic Control of Brain-Wide Dynamic

Date&Time: December, 9:00am

Venue: B250, LevelB, Ctr Bldg

Dr. Shunsuke Tagami, Unit Leader, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

Indian Tandoori Chicken

Science Presentation Competition for High School Students in Okinawa

Tom Burns, currently a rotation student in the Topology and Geometry of Manifolds (Tsvietkova) Unit, will present a talk on a research project done as part of his lab rotation. The title is "Exploring Gridworlds with State Complexes".

All are welcome.

Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700

Internal Seminar, 4-5 pm, Friday, December 7, C700

Dr. Marty Alain, CNRS and Paris Descartes University

Mr. Chris Tanner, Intellectual Property Attorney, FYPA, PLLC

Language: English

Open to all OIST community

Speaker: Dr. Shuichi Yokoyama, Kyoto University

Tracing the origins and evolution of human microbiome investigations: from pursuit of earth’s earliest life forms to the etiology of Pouchitis

Speaker: Mitchell L. Sogin Ph.D.

Distinguished Scientist

The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole

A launch event of Innovation Forum Okinawa will take place Monday, December 3rd in Room C209 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm, where we will be presenting the new Innovation Forum branch in Okinawa.