03 June 2026

Welcoming a new intern to the team!

We're growing.

A new intern student has joined us from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He will work with nano/microfluidics and bacterial live-cell imaging.

Research Unit

Microbial Lifeform Dynamics Group

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OIST Meets Young Hopefuls in Tokyo and Sapporo

OIST Café, a seminar aimed at science students, was inaugurated in April in Tokyo. This month it was held again in Tokyo, and also in Sapporo, on June 16 and 19.

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Climate Change and Coral

On June 29 and 30, the International Conference on Climate Change and Coral Reef Conservation, organized by the Ministry of the Environment and Okinawa Prefecture with the support of OIST and the University of the Ryukyus, was held at the OIST campus.

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Undergrads Experience Life at OIST

The second OIST Research Intern Summer Program is now underway.

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Prof. Economo Wins Presidential Award from ASN

Prof. Evan Economo, who leads OIST’s Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, was awarded the 2013 Presidential Award from the American Society of Naturalists (ASN).

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G0 Cell Unit work on fission yeast cells in low-glucose may lead to new research into metabolic diseases

Researchers at the OIST G0 Cell Unit have found that the actual glucose requirements of fission yeast cells and human cells are surprisingly similar and that the life span of fission yeast could be prolonged by glucose starvation, an effect that had been observed in higher organisms like human beings.