The OIST COI-NEXT Program is excited to announce the Call for New Projects 2025! We are looking for interdisciplinary projects that are dedicated to delivering tangible outcomes in support of the One World, One Health vision. Proposals are due by March 31, 2025 , at 12:00 PM.

OIST Science Challenge is a unique opportunity for participants to extend their scientific education and experience research at OIST.

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OIST Innovation opens its doors to the OIST community every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you ever wondered if your discoveries could lead to a patent or startup? Curious about what happens at OIST Innovation? Have an idea for a product or service? We welcome your ideas and questions!

Marc A. Hillmyer, PhD , Professor, Department of Chemistry, Center for Sustainable Polymers, University of Minnesota

Speaker: Philip Freund, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Title: Role of axonal importin β1 in presynaptic local translation and spatial memory

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to the ATM in the center building

Speaker: Dr. Satoshi Takada, Associate Professor: Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

language: English

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Ott, Assistant Professor, ECE, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Please RSVP by 7 am on Thursday, Mar. 27 : https://forms.gle/FnWHrH62KEoiJUwv7

Seminar by Prof. Valerio Orlando

Public Lecture : "How Do Animals Make Sound? … Even While Holding Their Breath" by Prof. Coen Elemans (University of Southern Denmark)

Language: English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation General audience, anyone with an interest in the topic. Recommended for 10 years old and over Registration required

Title: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Speaker: Dr Georgiy Tkachenko, University of Bordeaux, France

TSVP Talk Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: General audience / everyone at OIST and beyond. Freely accessible to all OIST members and guests without registration (also via Zoom).

Title: Does Synaptic Strength Encode Sleep Need?

Speaker: Dr. Shoi Shi, Principal Investigator, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba

Language: English

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to the ATM at the Center Building

"Synaptic Machinery for Protein Turnover" by Prof. Chao Sun, Aarhus University, Denmark

This is one of the science event for Japan Science Week.

Venue: Nago Museum

Admission Free

English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where] The room next to the ATM in the center building

Dr. Paul Strohmeier, Group Leader in Max Planck Institute for Informatics Hosted by Cybernetic Humanity Studio (OIST - Sony CSL collaboration)

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English-speaking insurance agent Wiltec in Chatan visits OIST. [When]11:00-15:00 [Where]The room next to ATM in the Center Building

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The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2024 to April 2025. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

The event will be streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. For more information on the graduation program, speakers, and graduates, please visit: https://www.oist.jp/graduation

For any questions, please contact: graduation@oist.jp

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Armitage (Integrative Community Ecology Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | OIST organizer: Ugur Abdulla (Analysis and Partial Differential Equations) | Website | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: David Elkouss Coronas (Networked Quantum Devices Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Philipp Höhn (Qubits and Spacetime Unit)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Conference Chair Ryuta Nakajima and Dan Rokhsar | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

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OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Cell Division Dynamics Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yuliya Kulikova (Science and Technology Group)| OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.