Upcoming Events
Seminar "The Role of the Maternal Nutrition–Placenta–Fetal Epigenome Axis in Mammalian Sex Determination"
Prof. Makoto Tachibana, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, The University of Osaka
[Seminar] Magnetic Omniconversion and the Art of Source-Independent Field Shaping
Dr J AUME C UNILL -S UBIRANAS , Physics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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.
Marine Day Kids Lecture "Clownfish and Sea Anemones: a Strange Friendship Under the Sea
kids lecture
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.
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!
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!
【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.
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.
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.
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Many-Body Systems
International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS 2026)
OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).
Plant synthetic biology: engineering green organisms for a sustainable future
Plant synthetic biology: engineering green organisms for a sustainable future
[Seminar] Dr. Florian Gabriel "Structural basis of substrate transport and drug recognition by the human thiamine transporter SLC19A3"
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New Years Holiday 年末年始
National holiday
Machine Learning Summer School 2027
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.
















