The FY2018 members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2018 Annual Report produced by the Science and Technology Group. This work is described below, and reveals a diverse program of research and cultural development complementary to the rest of the OIST programme.

Please refer to the links on the name for each member's Annual Report FY2018.

	STG Associate	Discipline	Brief description of project
1.	Mirona Chirienco	Geology	Past climate and environmental change
2.	Juanita Choo	Environmental Science	Human impact on the Amazon rainforest and Okinawa
3.	Anya Dani	Art Conservation	Preservation of cultural objects in Okinawa museum, especially pottery and old musical instruments
4.	Vladimir Dinets	Biology	Behavioral ecology and conservation of Asian birds and mammals
5.	Charlotte Fournier	Biophysics	The molecular dynamics of the epidermal growth factor receptor in cell membranes
6.	Garth Ilsley	Genomics	Regulation of gene expression
7.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes
8.	Reina Komiya	Biology	Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells
9.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan
10.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers
11.	Payal Shah	Environmental Economics	Analyze the social and environmental consequences of natural resource management policies and formulate optimal strategies to address environmental challenges such as climate change
12.	Satoshi Takebayashi	Organometallic chemistry	Development of innovative catalysts to activate small molecules based on organometallic chemistry