Seminar by Prof. Hiroshi Kageyama (Kyoto U), Feb 20th, 2-3pm at C016, QLab1.

Registration starts on 1/30 (Mon) 11:00AM www.oist.jp/concert

This seminar is open to faculty, researchers, and students.

Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu, Professor, Lanzhou University； Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China, Language: English

Prof Stefano Frequia, The University of Queensland

Language: English. No Interpretation

Internal Seminar: Olga Elisseeva , Group Leader, Cell Signal Unit (Yamamoto Unit)

This is an external event, organized by the Okinawa International Exchange & Human Resources Development Foundation . To participate, fill out the attached application form and submit to kokusai@oihf.or.jp by Feb 9th, 2017.

Dr. Elizabeth Theriault, Vice President, Research and Informatics, Ontario Brain Institute,Toronto, Ontario. Language: English. No interpretation.

Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu, Professor, Lanzhou University；Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China, Language: English

Selection workshop for students seeking admission to the PhD program in 2017

Taking care of the wellbeing of your team – open to managers, supervisors and leaders of any teams

National Holiday.

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Professor Michael Gutnick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr Luis Carrillo-Reid, Neuro Technology Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Brandon Morinaka, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Prof. Eric Rivard, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta (Canada)

Speaker: Nozomu Yachie

Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Title: DNA barcode technologies for high-throughput measurements of molecular and cellular dynamics

Seminar: “Overview of Synchrotron Radiation Science at Photon Factory”

Speaker:

Prof. Masami ANDO

Professor at Tokyo University of Science

Speaker: Professor Jun Okuda, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Yutaka Shikano, Research Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Language: English

This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Briefing Session on New Approval Process of Field Activities. If your unit, including visitors, PhD students and rotation students, is currently doing field work, or planning to do fieldwork in FY 2017, please attend or send a representative. If you are carrying out several projects, feel free to bring relevant colleagues.

Date: February 3, 2017

Time: 16:00-17:00

Place: B250 seminar room

Seminar by Dr. Hidehiko Shimada (KEK) at 2PM on Feb 3rd in C016.

Speaker: Prof. Bethany Rader, Southern Illinois University

Please address inquiries to the President's Office.

Internal Seminar: Yoshimasa Takizawa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit (Wolf Unit)

Seminar "Small molecule inhibitors of cancer stem cells identified through target-based and cell based screening" Dr.Nobumoto Watanabe, Feb 1.

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Nomura School Ryukyuan Traditional Music Association presents Ryukyu Traditional Performing Art. Admission free. Registration required. Go to www.oist.jp/concert for more information."

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Luca Sapienza, Solid-state Quantum Optics group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)

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This seminar is open only to the OIST community.

Dr. Reiko Toriumi, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen

Art Exhibition by Graduate School of Formative Arts, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, at OIST , Admission Free, No Reservation Needed.

Kim "Avrama" Blackwell received a M.S. in Systems Engineering, a PhD in Bioengineering and a V.M.D. in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Her professional career began at the not-for-profit Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, where she began developing artificial neural networks for pattern recognition. In 1996 Dr. Blackwell moved to the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Study at George Mason University as associate professor, and has been a professor since 2008, initially in the Molecular Neuroscience department and currently in the Bioengineering department.

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Henrik Bringmann, Sleep and Wake, Max Planck Institution for Biophysical Chemistry

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Estienne C. Swart, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern

Prof. Changjoon Justin Lee, KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) / Language : English / No registration required.

We offer a concise introduction to C and C++ programming for researchers and students.

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Cancer Stem Cell Working Group (CSCWG) Seminar by Hong Huat Hoh (OIST PhD Student). Open to all.

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Ms Sabine Hessler, University of Sussex, U.K.

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Keiko Kono, Medical Department and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University

This seminar is open only for the OIST community.

Dr. Yingli Rao, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

OIST Mini Symposium - Open to all OIST members - For non-OIST members: Please contact the organizers for information on how to participate.

Seminar by Prof. Simon Gardiner

Speaker: Dr. Sho Soeda

Researcher, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Title: Dephosphorylation-mediated functional switching of chromokinesin Kid/KIF22 ensures chromosome segregation.

Language: English. Registration required. Details TBA at https://groups.oist.jp/isaw.