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