Presidential Lecture by Professor Michael Stryker on the topic "Why our brains are more flexible when we are younger".

Presidential Lecture by Prof. Reiko Kuroda on the topic, "Left and right in nature. Does it matter?"

Presidential Lecture by Professor Hiroaki Suga on the topic "Pseudo-natural peptides, products and neobiologics for therapeutic applications".

Presidential lecture on Coordination Self-Assembly by Prof. Makoto Fujita

Presidential Lecture on the topic "Random to Ordered: From Candies to Monster Crystals from Space" by Prof. Paul Chaikin

Presidential lecture on the topic "Patterns in Nature" by Prof. Sidney Nagel

As part of OIST’s Presidential Lecture series, Dr. Wieland Huttner will deliver a lecture on “A gene that made our brain big". All are invited.

Dr. Wieland Huttner is the Founding Director Emeritus and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.

Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to the entire OIST community.

Dr. Thomas Kornberg, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to the OIST community. 

Tadashi Tokieda, Professor, Stanford University (Mathematics)