The FY2016 members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2016 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 FY2016.

	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.	Charlotte Fournier	Biophysics	The molecular dynamics of the epidermal growth factor receptor in cell membranes
5.	Garth Ilsley	Genomics	Regulation of gene expression
6.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes
7.	Reina Komiya	Biology	Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells
8.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers
9.	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