FY2023 Members of the Science and Technology Group

The FY2023 Members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2023 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 FY2023.

	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.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes
4.	Reina Komiya	Biology	Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells
5.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan
6.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers
7.	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
8.	Satoshi Takebayashi	Organometallic chemistry	Development of innovative catalysts to activate small molecules based on organometallic chemistry
9.	Eugene Kroll	Molecular Biology	1. Genome restructuring in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2. Entrapped microbial cell factories for prodiuction of valuable biologics 3. Combination metabolic therapy for aggressive tumor
10.	Yuki Nakazawa	Cell biology	Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly
11.	Ai Kiyomitsu	Biology	Cell division in Medaka early embryos
12.	Petra Svetlikova	Plant Biology	Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants
13.	Yuimaru Kubo	Quantum information technology	Developing spin-based quantum information hardware devices
14.	Xinying Jia	Psychology and Psychotherapy Science	1. Social Dynamics and Evolution of Incentive Cultures Utilizing Fear, Shame, and Guilt 2. Review of the treatments of depression
15.	Yuliya Kulikova	Labor Economics	Labor, Health and Family Economics; Inequality
16.	Midori Ota (Ohta)	Cell biology and Biochemistry	Mechanisms of centrosome assembly and regulation in development
17.	Ray Sallan	Odontology, dental physiology and evolution	1. Tooth replacement in fish; cause and effect, environmental and feeding ecology contributions to process. 2. Causal relationship between dental and jaw evolution.
18.	Gunnar Wilken	Mathmatics	Proof theory; ordinal representations; patterns of resemblance