Upcoming Events
[Seminar] "Particle-hole origin of thermal beating in dipole-compression modes of a 1D Bose gas" Prof. Giulia De Rosi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Seminar by Prof. Giulia De Rosi, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Mini Course: Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications
Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications
4 hours over the week July 13 to July 17 (Monday and Friday) NOTE: Dates have changed .
Room: Lab 4 F01.
Professor Federica Dragoni, Cardiff University, TSVP visitor
【Seminar】"Extending the Reach of CryoEM" by Dr. Christopher J. Russo, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
【Seminar】"Extending the Reach of CryoEM" by Dr. Christopher J. Russo
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom
[Seminar] Uniform Mean Estimation for Heavy-Tailed Distributions via Median-of-Means.
Prof. Andrea Paudice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
[Seminar] "Transposon-Colonized Intron Gain follows Parasitism-Mediated Horizontal Transfer of a Cytochrome P450 Gene" by Dr. Eiichiro Ono
Dr. Eiichiro Ono, Senior General Manager/Research Specialist at Research Institute, Suntory Global Innovation Center Ltd., Kyoto, Japan
Developing Neurocircuit Course (DNC) 2026
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
[Seminar] "Ion polarons in Bose gases: from perturbative regime to many-body bound states" Prof. Gregory Astrakharchik, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Seminar by Prof. G. E. Astrakharchik, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Seminar "Mangroves… from text mentions in ancient times to biomes in modern open-world games"
Title: Mangroves… from text mentions in ancient times to biomes in modern open-world games
Speaker: Prof. Farid DAHDOUH-GUEBAS,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Mini Course: Brownian motion from a PDE point of view
Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University
Establishing the existence of solutions to stochastic ordinary differential equations and the relation with Dirichlet and Neumann problems for linear differential operators.
2 x 2-hour sessions. July 15 and July 22.
Monthly Co-working by The Bioinformatics User Group
Monthly Co-working space - by Bioinformatics User Group
[Seminar] Mechanistic Insights into Peptide Recognition by Abl Kinase for Therapeutic Peptide Design by Dr. Ai Shinobu, WPI-PRIMe, Osaka University
Dr. Ai Shinobu, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, WPI-PRIMe, Osaka University
Mini Course: Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications
Convexity and semiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and Carnot groups with applications
4 hours over the week July 13 to July 17 (Monday and Friday) NOTE: Dates have changed .
Room: Lab 4 F01.
Professor Federica Dragoni, Cardiff University, TSVP visitor
Strucshare meeting: Presentation by Alberto Perez and Professor Mihnea Bostin
Strucshare Meeting & Presentation
Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)
Session 2:
Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project
Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU
Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.
Marine Day Kids Lecture "Clownfish and Sea Anemones: a Strange Friendship Under the Sea
kids lecture
Crafted Traditions: Artistic Forms from Onna Village (2026)
Building on the success and positive reception of last year's Crafted Traditions exhibition, this renewed showcase continues a growing collaboration between the Onshu Craft Association and OIST. Featuring works by Tokuzan Seragaki, Akira Tamada, Hideyoshi Matsuda, Emiko Yoshida, Shigeo Abe, and the Teruya Studio, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage that make Onna Village unique.
Mini Course: Brownian motion from a PDE point of view
Brownian motion from a PDE point of view. Session 2
Presented by Prof. Nicolas Dirr from Cardiff University.
VC Mentoring Hours: HERO IMPACT CAPITAL
In collaboration with leading venture capital firms, OIST Innovation offers startups and entrepreneurial researchers or students the opportunity to connect directly with venture capitalists for one-on-one mentoring and discussion. Each round begins with an open seminar-style introduction, where participants can learn about the VC firm's investment focus and characteristics. This is followed by private, closed-door mentoring sessions between startups/researchers/students and the VC representatives.
The featured VC for this round is HERO IMPACT CAPITAL .
Seminar"Effect of surface structures on droplet dynamics"Junichiro Shiomi
Language: English
TSVP Talk: Bringing Shape to Graph Representations: From Topological Contrastive Learning to Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures by Yulia Gel
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).
Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)
Session 3:
Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project
Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU
Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.
Hands-on Science Workshop - Let's Discover Rocks and Minerals in Okinawa! -
This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.
2026 Analysis on Metric Space Seminar: "Discrete Approximation on Metric Measure Spaces of Controlled Geometry via Graphs: Dirichlet Forms and Harmonic Functions" by Dr.Liangbing Luo, Queen's University
Based on the approximation of a metric measure space via discrete graphs, we construct a Dirichlet form. This Dirichlet form is comparable to the upper gradient energy and can be realized as a -limit of a sequence of induced bilinear forms projected from the discrete energy form on the approximating graphs. Moreover, we approximate harmonic functions on a bounded domain with a prescribed Newton-Sobolev boundary data. Based on joint work with A. Butaev and N. Shanmugalingam.
Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering
Mini Course: AI for Protein Engineering
this is a hands-on session about using RFDiffusion to engineer yourself a protein!
Dr. Saacnicteh Toledo Patiño is an OIST Buribushi fellow
【July 29th】 Travel Consultation Session/ 【7/29】 旅費相談会
Travel Expense Team will hold a travel consultation session.
旅費相談会を開催いたします。
Mini Course: Good Enough Computing in Science (GECS)
Session 4:
Automated workflow , version-controlled scripts, and Structured project
Presenters: Igors Dubanevics Y4 @KondrashovU, Vitoria Yumi Uetuki Nicoleti Y1 @FukunagaU, Yui Tateyama Y1 @PaoU
Please contact gs-cp@oist.jp if you have any questions.
Sunset Social for OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026
All OISTers and family are welcome! OIST-Keio "Sunset Social" will be held as a part of the "OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026". This is a great opportunity for the campers from Keio University Medical School and OISTers to interact and network. Please join us to meet the campers and enjoy food trucks, traditional craft making, live music, and outdoor games as the sun goes down!
Child-rearing Support Community
A casual space to chat and share about parenting!
OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (English)
OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!
Innovator's Toolbox: Intro to Lean Startup
Join OIST Innovation’s commercialization training program designed to help students, researchers, and administrators explore how research can move from lab to market. Through monthly, hands-on sessions from July to March, participants will learn the fundamentals of commercialization, customer discovery, business strategy, and pitching while developing their own innovation ideas.
【Seminar】"Unfolding the brain: reconstructing corticogenesis from cell maps" by Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami
Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University.
Language: English
Onna x OIST Children's School of Science Open Class 2026
OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (Japanese)
OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!
OIST Open Biosafety Seminar 2026
Seminar focusing on the rapidly advancing field of synthetic biology. Latest researches on the Darwinian evolution of RNA-protein self-replication systems, synthetic gene circuits, and mirror-image biology will be presented.
OIST Café at OIST Science Studio in Yomitan
OIST Café Information Session at the OIST Science Studio in Yomitan, Okinawa! Join us for a casual science information session introducing the OIST PhD and Research Internship program!
OIST Graduate School staff will be happy to meet you and answer all your questions regarding the application and admissions process for our programs. In addition, current PhD students will share more about their academic journey and student life at OIST.
Welcome Ceremony Class of 2026
Welcome Ceremony for new faculty members joining OIST, and PhD students joining the Class of 2026.
The ceremony is open to all OIST community members and will be held at the Auditorium.
Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training
DISCOVER THE LEAN STARTUP METHODOLOGY Learn to identify commercial opportunities that come from your academic research. Apply the Lean Startup methodology to real OIST technologies, guided by instructors from the NSF I-Corps™ network. Teams (3–4 people) will conduct interviews, validate their ideas, and explore real-world commercialization.
OIST x NAIST Café in Kyoto – Step into Graduate Schools –
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?
New cerebellar computations for diverse sensorimotor behaviors
New cerebellar computations for diverse sensorimotor behaviors
OIST x NAIST Café in Osaka – Step into Graduate Schools –
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?
Falling Walls Lab Okinawa 2026
The Falling Walls Lab is an interdisciplinary format to showcase the next generation of top researchers developed and hosted annually by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in November. In 3–minute talks, outstanding talents and innovative thinkers share their research projects, business models and social initiatives with an interdisciplinary audience and jury. Academic institutions worldwide are invited to host their own Falling Walls Lab and to send their winner/s to the Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin.
The promise and perils of neural manifolds
A talk by Devika Narain
Associate Professor of Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands )
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
EMBO Workshop on Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Marco Terenzio (Molecular Neuroscience Unit) |OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions. Meals are closed sessions for registered participants only.
































