FY2020 Members of the Science and Technology Group

The FY2020 Members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2020 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 FY2020.

	STG Associate	Discipline	Brief description of project
1.	Mirona Chirienco	Geology	Past climate and environmental change
2.	Juanita Choo	Ecology	Human impacts on biodiversity and plant-animal interactions in tropical and sub-tropical forests
3.	Anya Dani	Art Conservation	Preservation of cultural objects in Okinawa museum, especially pottery and old musical instruments
4.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes
5.	Reina Komiya	Biology	Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells
6.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan
7.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers
8.	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
9.	Satoshi Takebayashi	Organometallic chemistry	Development of innovative catalysts to activate small molecules based on organometallic chemistry
10.	Eugene Kroll	Molecular Biology
11.	Yuki Nakazawa	Cell biology	Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly
12.	Ai Kiyomitsu	Biology	Cell division in Medaka early embryos
13.	Petra Svetlikova	Plant Biology	Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants