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Research Update Mushrooms with “massively expanded” genomes make them more adaptable Certain Mycena strains living in the Arctic have some of the largest mushroom genomes ever described. 27 June 2024
Research Update Oikopleura who? Species identity crisis in the genome community Genomic analysis of a widespread species of zooplankton questions our assumptions about speciation and gene regulation. 09 May 2024
Research Update Nature’s checkup: surveying biodiversity with environmental DNA sequencing Using DNA found in samples of seawater from the remote Ogasawara Islands of Japan, researchers have been able to gain valuable insights into the state of biodiversity in a unique ecosystem. 20 February 2024
Institutional News OIST hosts French-Japanese Seminar on "Metaverse and Virtual Reality" Over 100 OIST members and visitors attended the event exploring the science and technology behind the notion of “Metaverse”. 22 May 2023
Research Update Gut bacteria could be behind weaker immune responses to COVID-19 vaccine Digestion of fucose sugar by bacteria in our digestive tract could be hampering how effectively we respond to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. 20 April 2023
Institutional News Nobel laureate Professor Svante Pääbo pays courtesy visit to Prime Minister Kishida Prime Minister Kishida congratulates Prof. Svante Pääbo on his Nobel Prize and expresses his expectations for Prof. Pääbo‘s future endeavors. 07 February 2023
Institutional News OIST community congratulates Prof. Pääbo on Nobel Prize Over 100 students, researchers, and faculty members gathered for the celebration 25 January 2023
Research Update Beyond the Nobel Prize: Professor Pääbo’s quest to uncover what makes humans unique After identifying genetic variants found only in modern humans, Adjunct Professor Svante Pääbo is now exploring whether these genes have been consequential in our evolution. 09 December 2022
Research Update OIST Professor Svante Pääbo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced today that Svante Pääbo, an Adjunct Professor at OIST, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 03 October 2022
Institutional News OIST Adjunct Professor, Svante Pääbo, receives the Japan Prize After a two-year postponement, Professor Svante Pääbo accepts the Japan Prize trophy in a ceremony at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. 19 May 2022
Research Update Analyzing the never-ending power struggle Prof. Filip Husnik talks symbiosis and what it can tell us about evolution and cell biology on the most recent episode of the OIST podcast. 13 May 2021
Research Update Reading the book of life Eugene “Gene” Myers, a pioneer of bioinformatics who created the BLAST algorithm and played a decisive role in decoding the human genome, joined OIST last year as an Adjunct Professor. 19 March 2021
