FY2015 Annual Report

Physics and Biology Unit
Associate Professor Jonathan Miller

1. Staff

  • Dr. Zdenek Lajbner, Postdoctoral Scholar 
  • Dr. Kohei Okamoto, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Dr. Gao Kun, Postdoctoral Scholar ( - 2016/03/18)
  • Dr. Reuven Pnini, Technician
  • Jessica Gordon, Technician
  • Courtney Timmons, Technician
  • Keishu Asada, Technician
  • Midori Tanahara, Research Unit Administrator

2. Publications

2.1 Journals

Garcia-Munoz M, Taillefer E, Pnini R, Vickers C, Miller J, Arbuthnott GW. Rebuilding a realistic corticostriatal "social network" from dissociated cells. Frontiers in systems neuroscience. 9: 63, 2015.

2.2 Oral and Poster Presentations

  1. 岡本光平, 池田譲. トラフコウイカが採餌時に特異的に表出するボディーパターン. 平成28年度日本水産学会春季大会. 東京海洋大学 (東京) 2016.03.28. [Okamoto K, Ikeda Y. Body patterns of Sepia pharaonis during prey capture.  The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS) Spring 2016 . Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo JAPAN. 2016.03.28.]
  2. Gordon J.  Octopuses of Okinawa. OIST Seminar Room B250, Okinawa JAPAN. 2016.01.22.
  3. Miller J, Edsinger E, Gordon J, Timmons C. Psychotroctopus. 2015 International Workshop for JSCS 30th Anniversary in Okinawa . OIST Auditorium. 2015.10.30. 

3. Meetings and Events

3.1 Seminar "Rapid Adaptive Camouflage in Cephalopods: visual perception, biophotonic skin, pattern design & bio-inspired engineering"

  • Date: November 17th, 2015
  • Venue: OIST Campus Seminar Room C209
  • ​Speaker: Professor Roger Hanlon (MBL Wood's Hole) 

3.2 Seminar “Somatic Mutation: Cancer's Engine and Its Achilles' heel”

  • Date: October 19th, 2015 
  • Venue: OIST Campus Seminar Room C209
  • ​Speaker: Professor David A. Wheeler (​Director Cancer Genomics, Human Genome Sequencing Center & Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine)