People of OIST

Dr. Samuel Ross brings together a wide range of research disciplines and experts to study and help conserve Earth's ecosystems.

Optimizing transport, trust, and tutelage.

Prof. Ugur Abdulla and his team in the Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit are positioning OIST as a global hub for mathematical research.

The Cell Proliferation and Gene Editing Unit studies how cells divide, what can cause sickness within cells, and searches for new treatment targets for cancer.

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.

The recipient of this year’s Excellence in Mentoring Award, Professor Paola Laurino, leads a group that investigates the structure, function and evolution of proteins called enzymes, which are vital parts of all life.

The unpredictability of everyday life can inform our expectations of the future, says Professor Jun Tani, who is revealing the underlying neural networks of predictions by exploring robotic minds.

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.

Mathematician strives to understand functions in metric spaces – abstract settings that go beyond the physical world.