FY2025 STG Annual Report

The FY2025 Members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2025 Annual Report produced by the Science and Technology Group. This work is described below, and reveals a diverse program of research and cultural development complementary to the rest of the OIST program.

Please refer to the PDF links for each member's Annual Report FY2025.

	STG Associate	Discipline	Brief description of project
1.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes FY2025 Khaskin FY2025 Khaskin
2.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan
3.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers FY2025_Nomura
4.	Payal Shah	Environmental Economics	1) Impact evaluation of conservation policy 2) Systematic conservation planning in an uncertain world
5.	Eugene Kroll	Molecular Biology	1. Genome restructuring in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2. Entrapped microbial cell factories for prodiuction of valuable biologics 3. Combination metabolic therapy for aggressive tumor
6.	Yuki Nakazawa	Cell biology	Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly FY2025_Nakazawa FY2025_Nakazawa
7.	Ai Kiyomitsu	Biology	Cell division in Medaka early embryos
8.	Petra Svetlikova	Plant Biology	Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants FY2025 SVETLIKOVA
9.	Yuimaru Kubo	Quantum information technology	Developing spin-based quantum information technology devices
10.	Xinying Jia	Psychology and Psychotherapy Science	1. The Tragic Double Temptation of Severe but Rare Punishment 2. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Fear in the Hawk-Dove Game
11.	Yuliya Kulikova	Labor Economics	Labor, Health and Family Economics; Inequality
12.	Ray Sallan	Odontology, dental physiology and evolution	1. Tooth replacement in fish; cause and effect, environmental and feeding ecology contributions to process. 2. Causal relationship between dental and jaw evolution. FY2025 Sallan FY2025 Sallan
13.	Gunnar Wilken	Mathmatics	Proof theory; ordinal representations; patterns of resemblance
14.	Cathal Cassidy	Physics	Electron microscopy and holography of functional materials
15.	Alya Sitsel	Structural Biology	Protein purifications from natural sources for subsequent structural analysis
16.	Matin Miryeganeh	Plant Molecular Ecology	Mangrove Trees as Models for Climate-Driven Adaptation: A Genomic, Epigenomic, and Transcriptomic Approach FY2025 Matin Miryeganeh
17.	Ryuho Kataoka	Space Phyiscs	Machine-learning techniques for space weather forecasting. Designing and building all-sky cameras for auroral imaging. FY2025 Kataoka