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

The registration deadline for OISTxWPI-AIMEC (Tohoku U & JAMSTEC) Joint Workshop "Changing Marine Ecosystems: Biogeography of Habitat Shifts and Adaptation to Oceanographic Variability" is November 12, 2025.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team invites you to join an informal lunchtime discussion exploring trust and psychological safety in the workplace. Participants will reflect on how they trust others, learn the difference between trust and psychological safety, identify behaviors that cultivate trust, and discuss in small groups. Participants are welcome to eat their lunch during the session. Language: English. Wednesday, November 12 from 12pm-1pm in Center Building, Level C, Room 210 (C210).

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).

Seminar by Prof. Matteo Convertino

A talk by Merit Kruse

Megan Carey Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Speaker: Francesco Bavato, MD, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich

Title: Blood Markers of Neuroaxonal Remodelling in Psychiatry: From the Lab to Clinical Use and Back

Prof. C. K. Chan is Emeritus Professor from Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

[Speaker] Stefanie Rauchenzauner, Research Fellow, OIST, Postdoctoral Researcher, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria

OISTxWPI-AIMEC (Tohoku U & JAMSTEC) - Joint Workshop

Changing Marine Ecosystems: Biogeography of Habitat Shifts and Adaptation to Oceanographic Variability

Speaker: Dr. Flavia Libonati

Associate Professor, University of Genoa Research Affiliate, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Join us for the OIST × NAIST Café Information Session!

Interested in cutting-edge science and technology? Wondering what graduate student life is like in Japan’s leading research universities?

National holiday

National holiday

Monday 24th November 13:00-16:00 OIST Auditorium

Website: https://iconip2025.apnns.org/forum Pre Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/U7aXdF9pht

We will hold an Open Forum on the topic of Organic AI Alignment in Japanese for local citizens and students. All ICONIP participants are welcome to join. The talks will be in Japanese, but we will provide AI translated English caption on the screen.

Join us for the OIST × NAIST Café Information Session!

Interested in cutting-edge science and technology? Wondering what graduate student life is like in Japan’s leading research universities?

旅費相談会を開催いたします。

November 25th (Thu) @A151 Center Bldg. 15:00-16:00

Join us for iGEM Okinawa ’s 2025 post-Jamboree event at OIST, where we’ll share our project results with farmers, supporters, and stakeholders and discuss future collaborations.

OISTにて開催される iGEM Okinawa の成果報告イベントにぜひご参加ください。農家、地域関係者、協力団体の皆様と成果を共有し、今後の展望について語り合います。

This event is a collaborative initiative between Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), aimed at advancing new research developments in Gendered Innovation through the integration of both institutes’ strengths in advanced science and technology. Gendered Innovation offers critical perspectives not only for promoting femtech but also for applications in drug discovery, medical technologies, and materials development. Incorporating viewpoints on gender and broader diversity from the earliest stages of basic research is key to enhancing the quality and value of science. It also serves as a foundation for sustainable research and development that extends through applied research and ultimately contributes to social impact. In particular, Gendered Innovation is gaining global attention as a framework aligned with Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and with the promotion of fairness in research practices. By bridging diverse fields such as quantum science, materials science, and AI—alongside OIST’s core strengths in neuroscience, biology, and environmental science—this event seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration through the fusion of advanced research domains. The event aspires to create a platform where researchers from both institutions can share knowledge, explore emerging challenges, and shape new possibilities for future-oriented, transdisciplinary research.

14th Annual SCORE!

ICIIBMS 2025 will be held at OIST University , December 2-5, 2025, Okinawa, Japan

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 14:00 to 15:00

Title: "Patterning the cerebral cortex by transcription factor gradients"

Speaker: Dr. Shen-Ju Chou, Research Fellow, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

QG Seminar Speaker: Max Velasquez Cotini Hutt (Imperial College London)

Title: Non-invertible Symmetries of 2d Non-Linear Sigma Models

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).

Speaker: Dr. Riko Hatakeyama, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Title: TORC1-containing signaling endosomes: Discovery and characterization of a cellular signaling centre.

OIST-Keio Showcase Talk Series Vol. 8 "Science Meets Society: Twist, Flow, and Instability."

OIST will be hosting a Science Talk for Students in Itoman on Saturday, December 13th.

National holiday

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to those who graduated in the period May 2025 to January 2026. The ceremony will take place at the OIST Auditorium on Friday, February 27, 2026.

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.

The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026

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.

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: William Munro (Quantum Engineering and Design Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.

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

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Makoto Yamada (Machine Learning and Data Science Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.