News Institutional News (-) Research Update Facet News type Algebra Analysis Artificial intelligence Atomic physics Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biology Biophysics Biotechnology Botany Cell biology Chemistry Complex systems Computer sciences Condensed matter physics Cyber Security Data science Deep learning Developmental biology Developmental neuroscience Ecology Engineering and applied sciences Environmental sciences Evolutionary biology Fluid dynamics Genetics Genomics Health sciences Immunology Informatics Machine learning Marine sciences Material science Mathematics Mechanics Medicine Molecular biology Nanoscience Neuroscience Optics Organic chemistry Photonics Physics Physiology Polymer chemistry Psychology Quantum Quantum field theory Robotics Soft matter physics Structural biology Synthetic biology Synthetic organic chemistry Theoretical sciences Topology Virology Facet Specialty 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 (-) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 Facet Date Created Clear filters Research Update The Beauty of Numbers Having spent over 40 years as a professor in mathematics and theoretical physics, Shinobu Hikami has come across a great deal of phenomena that mathematics can explain. 19 April 2013 Research Update Splitting Species For one OIST biologist, bringing up oversized one-celled animals from the deep ocean is on par with peering at the small sculptures in an ant’s head. At first glance these animals appear to have nothing in common, but she’s found their evolutionary stories share common themes. 12 April 2013 Research Update Warming Up to a New Method In a paper just accepted for publication in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, two OIST researchers have demonstrated a technique for brain dissection that allows researchers to investigate neurons in older tissues, a nearly impossible feat. 12 April 2013 Research Update Installing Okinawa’s Ocean Thermometers If weather and technology cooperate during the next four years OIST researcher, Daisuke Hasegawa of the Marine Biophysics Unit will have received more than 800,000 emails from the ocean. 29 March 2013 Research Update OIST Physicist Receives HFSP Grant An international collaborative proposal by OIST researcher Mahesh Bandi has won him and his colleagues a Young Investigators Grant from The Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP). 22 March 2013 Research Update Interdisciplinary Innovator Leading two groups that will carry out radically different projects in electron microscopy and renewable energy resources, Prof. Shintake is just the kind of researcher we like to have around at OIST. 15 March 2013 Research Update New Unit Profile: Searching for Simplicity Trained in theoretical physics and currently working to understand the living world, there is no doubt Professor Greg Stephens feels at home in OIST’s interdisciplinary environment. 12 March 2013 Research Update Prime Minister Abe Visits OIST On February 2, 2013, the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzō Abe, paid a visit to the OIST campus in Onna Village to receive an update on the university’s progress. 05 February 2013 Research Update Churaumi’s Coral Clone Behind the doors of the Churaumi Plaza at the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, visitors can now view a live display of the exact staghorn coral whose genome was first decoded by the OIST Marine Genomic Unit. 30 January 2013 Research Update Japanese Research Organizations Contribute to Human Brain Project OIST and RIKEN join international efforts to understand and simulate the human brain for the creation of new technological advances for society. 29 January 2013 Research Update New Unit Profile: From Magic to Quantum Machines “Quantum theory aims to explain phenomena that occur at temperatures and on scales that humans are too big and too hot to experience," says Professor Thomas Busch, head of the new Quantum Systems Unit at OIST. 23 January 2013 Research Update New Unit Profile: Getting to the Heart of the Matter The Collective Interactions unit makes the details behind many theories more palpable by studying phenomena that can be seen with the naked eye. 03 January 2013 Pagination First page 1 2 3 Media Coverage Coverage of OIST in the media and on the web Media Coverage
Research Update The Beauty of Numbers Having spent over 40 years as a professor in mathematics and theoretical physics, Shinobu Hikami has come across a great deal of phenomena that mathematics can explain. 19 April 2013
Research Update Splitting Species For one OIST biologist, bringing up oversized one-celled animals from the deep ocean is on par with peering at the small sculptures in an ant’s head. At first glance these animals appear to have nothing in common, but she’s found their evolutionary stories share common themes. 12 April 2013
Research Update Warming Up to a New Method In a paper just accepted for publication in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, two OIST researchers have demonstrated a technique for brain dissection that allows researchers to investigate neurons in older tissues, a nearly impossible feat. 12 April 2013
Research Update Installing Okinawa’s Ocean Thermometers If weather and technology cooperate during the next four years OIST researcher, Daisuke Hasegawa of the Marine Biophysics Unit will have received more than 800,000 emails from the ocean. 29 March 2013
Research Update OIST Physicist Receives HFSP Grant An international collaborative proposal by OIST researcher Mahesh Bandi has won him and his colleagues a Young Investigators Grant from The Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP). 22 March 2013
Research Update Interdisciplinary Innovator Leading two groups that will carry out radically different projects in electron microscopy and renewable energy resources, Prof. Shintake is just the kind of researcher we like to have around at OIST. 15 March 2013
Research Update New Unit Profile: Searching for Simplicity Trained in theoretical physics and currently working to understand the living world, there is no doubt Professor Greg Stephens feels at home in OIST’s interdisciplinary environment. 12 March 2013
Research Update Prime Minister Abe Visits OIST On February 2, 2013, the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzō Abe, paid a visit to the OIST campus in Onna Village to receive an update on the university’s progress. 05 February 2013
Research Update Churaumi’s Coral Clone Behind the doors of the Churaumi Plaza at the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, visitors can now view a live display of the exact staghorn coral whose genome was first decoded by the OIST Marine Genomic Unit. 30 January 2013
Research Update Japanese Research Organizations Contribute to Human Brain Project OIST and RIKEN join international efforts to understand and simulate the human brain for the creation of new technological advances for society. 29 January 2013
Research Update New Unit Profile: From Magic to Quantum Machines “Quantum theory aims to explain phenomena that occur at temperatures and on scales that humans are too big and too hot to experience," says Professor Thomas Busch, head of the new Quantum Systems Unit at OIST. 23 January 2013
Research Update New Unit Profile: Getting to the Heart of the Matter The Collective Interactions unit makes the details behind many theories more palpable by studying phenomena that can be seen with the naked eye. 03 January 2013