Science Digest - Dr. Arielle Keller: "Attention and Mental Health: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective"

Science Digest - Dr. Erika Cyphert: "Biomaterials and the gut microbiome - paving the way for novel therapeutics"

Science Digest - June edition!  Please welcome our invited speaker, Dr. Erika Cyphert (Postdoctoral Fellow at Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA) for her talk: "Biomaterials and the gut microbiome - paving the way for novel therapeutics". The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Biomedical Engineering, Gut Microbiome, Biomaterials/Drug delivery, and Orthopaedics, and those who would like to know more about Cornell University and Dr. Cyphert's career. Save the date: June 28 at 9:00 a.m. JST, C210 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 986 5579 1051 Passcode: 220627).

Science Digest - Dr. David Brückner - "Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids"

The Science Digest is back! Dr. David Brückner, NOMIS Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, will give us a talk on "Learning the stochastic dynamics of biological systems across scales: from single cells to organoids". The seminar is open to everyone interested in the fields of Biophysics, Cell Migration, and Developmental Biology, and those who would like to know more about IST Austria and Dr. Brückner's career. Tuesday, May 31 at 16:00 JST on C700 or Zoom (Meeting ID: 990 6065 9864 Passcode: 855680).

ORC Assembly

The next ORC Assembly will be the last for the previous ORC representatives and the first for the new representatives! Please join us as we hand over to the new office.

Also on the agenda: Future plans of the new office, with plenty of time for discussion, and a report on the recent Faculty Assembly.

[RAM 2021] Closing Ceremony

RAM 2021 would like to invite all OIST Community for its Closing Ceremony, to be held on Friday, July 30th at 15:00. On this occasion, awards will be given to honor the achievements of winners of Best Researcher Blitz Talk and the SCIENCEART Contest & Exhibition. Join us for this final event as part of Researcher Appreciation Month 2021, in-person in L4E48 or Zoom (https://oist.zoom.us/j/89866355909?pwd=RWpUYmNEZE54MUdMSEZTR3phNWNPZz09) Thank you everyone for making RAM 2021 a great success!

[RAM 2021] Poster Session

Join us for the last RAM 2021 Poster Session! For printed posters, starting at 13:00 (right after Researcher Blitz Talks) in Lab4F Patio (terrace) and also in room L4F36 for digital posters. For more info: https://groups.oist.jp/orc/poster-sessions

[RAM 2021] Researchers Blitz Session

Join us for the last Researcher Blitz Session on Thursday, July 29th at 12:00pm!
Research Blitz Sessions are 3 minutes talks (max. 3 slides) to be held on Thursdays (July 8th, 15th, 29th), always at noon in L4E48 or Zoom. Sessions will last 1 hour + 30 min for discussion after all presentations. Judges will score the presentations and give awards for the best presenters. More info: https://groups.oist.jp/orc/researcher-blitz-sessions

Zoom link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/88116669511?pwd=NkZqOSsyU0lpT3hUMWxJL2xPV25iQT09

[RAM 2021] Chasing perfection: validating and polishing strategies for T2T assemblies

Speaker: Dr. Arang Rhie, Genome Informatics Section at NIH/NHGRI, USA
 

Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/84967336568?pwd=ZkhVWlRCdzBjM3VDSWRneDVXaUhVUT09

[RAM 2021] Teatime Session: “It’s a small world – part II (Experimental Models)”

Everyone is invited! On Tuesday, July 27th at 16:00, OIST's Science and Technology Group Associate Reina Komiya will share insights of her research & career with us during the Teatime with STG Series! This editions' topic is "It’s a small world – part II (Experimental Models)", in which our speaker will talk about reproductive mechanisms including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNA) in rice! Join us in room L4F22c* or Zoom (https://oist.zoom.us/j/87884412953?pwd=K2U1NENicHAyY0d1ai9sTGRaL1U0UT09) Passcode: 274806

[POSTPONED] Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics

With deep apologies, this talk will once again be postponed until further notice!

Professor Sara Solla will speak to us, live from Chicago, on Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics.