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Seminar

Seminar "The Role of the Maternal Nutrition–Placenta–Fetal Epigenome Axis in Mammalian Sex Determination"

Thursday, July 9, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
C700, Lab3

Prof. Makoto Tachibana, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, The University of Osaka

Seminar

[Seminar] Magnetic Omniconversion and the Art of Source-Independent Field Shaping

Thursday, July 9, 2026 - 15:30 to 16:30
Seminar Room C209 - Center Bldg

Dr J AUME C UNILL -S UBIRANAS , Physics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

OIST Workshops

Developing Neurocircuit Course (DNC) 2026

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 (All day) to Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Seminar Room C209 and C210)

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.

Holiday

Marine Day 海の日

Monday, July 20, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Outreach

Marine Day Kids Lecture "Clownfish and Sea Anemones: a Strange Friendship Under the Sea

Monday, July 20, 2026 - 14:00
OIST Auditorium

kids lecture

Outreach

Hands-on Science Workshop - Let's Discover Rocks and Minerals in Okinawa! -

Saturday, July 25, 2026 - 14:30
OIST Science Studio (Inside the Yomitan Public Library)

This workshop offers hands-on microscope activities with OIST geologist Mirona Chirienco, exploring the rocks and minerals found in Okinawa.

Recreation

Sunset Social for OIST-Keio International Research Summer Camp 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026 - 17:30 to 19:30
Grass area by the pond

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!

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (English)

Friday, August 7, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

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!

Holiday

Mountain Day 山の日

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Seminar

【Seminar】"Unfolding the brain: reconstructing corticogenesis from cell maps" by Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami

Monday, August 17, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00
Lab4, E01

Speaker: Dr. Tatsuya C. Murakami, Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University.

Language: English

Outreach

Onna x OIST Children's School of Science Open Class 2026

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 09:30 to Thursday, August 20, 2026 - 11:00

Prospective Students

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in August 2026 (Japanese)

Friday, August 21, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:30

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!

Seminar

OIST Open Biosafety Seminar 2026

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 - 15:00
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (B250)

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.

Innovation

Lean Startup Entrepreneurial Training

Saturday, September 12, 2026 - 09:00 to Sunday, September 13, 2026 - 18:00
C209 and C210 (Main Campus Center Building)

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.

Outreach

Falling Walls Lab Okinawa 2026

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 - 13:30 to 17:30
OIST Seminar Room B250

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.

Holiday

Respect for the Aged Day 敬老の日

Monday, September 21, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

National Holiday 国民の祝日

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Autumnal Equinox Day 秋分の日

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

Sports Day スポーツの日

Monday, October 12, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Symposium

Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 (All day) to Friday, October 16, 2026 (All day)
C210

Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems

Holiday

Culture Day 文化の日

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2026)

Monday, November 9, 2026 (All day) to Friday, November 13, 2026 (All day)
OIST Main Campus (Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

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

Symposium

Plant synthetic biology: engineering green organisms for a sustainable future

Monday, November 16, 2026 (All day) to Wednesday, November 18, 2026 (All day)
Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater (Seminar Room B250)

Plant synthetic biology: engineering green organisms for a sustainable future

Research

[Seminar] Dr. Florian Gabriel "Structural basis of substrate transport and drug recognition by the human thiamine transporter SLC19A3"

Monday, November 16, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00
Seminar Room L4E01

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Holiday

Labor Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日

Monday, November 23, 2026 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

New Years Holiday 年末年始

Tuesday, December 29, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, January 3, 2027 (All day)

National holiday

Holiday

New Year's Day 元日

Friday, January 1, 2027 (All day)

National holiday

OIST Workshops

Machine Learning Summer School 2027

Monday, March 1, 2027 (All day) to Friday, March 12, 2027 (All day)
OIST Conference Center (Auditorium + Meeting Rooms)

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.

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