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
2.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan stg_FY2025 Moriyama
3.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers FY2025_Nomura
4.	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 FY2025_Kroll FY2025_Kroll
5.	Yuki Nakazawa	Cell biology	Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly FY2025_Nakazawa
6.	Ai Kiyomitsu	Biology	Cell division in Medaka early embryos FY2025 Ai Kiyomitsu
7.	Petra Svetlikova	Plant Biology	Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants FY2025 SVETLIKOVA
8.	Yuimaru Kubo	Quantum information technology	Developing spin-based quantum information technology devices FY2025_Kubo FY2025_Kubo
9.	Xinying Jia	Psychology and Psychotherapy Science	1. Social Learning Enables Inferior Strategies to Spread under Severe-but-Rare Punishment. 2. Evolutionary Dynamics of Fear in the Hawk–Dove Game 3. Severe-but-Rare Punishment and the Gordon-Gekko Effect 4. Evolutionary Dynamics of Fear, Shame, and Guilt FY2025 Xinying Jia
10.	Yuliya Kulikova	Labor Economics	Labor, Health and Family Economics; Inequality FY2025 Yuliya Kulikova
11.	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. Ray Sallan STG Annual Report FY2025
12.	Gunnar Wilken	Mathmatics	Proof theory; ordinal representations; patterns of resemblance; Goodstein principles FY2025 Gunnar Wilken
13.	Cathal Cassidy	Physics	Electron microscopy and holography of functional materials FY2025 Cathal Cassidy
14.	Alya Sitsel	Structural Biology	Protein purifications from natural sources for subsequent structural analysis FY2025 Alya Sitsel
15.	Matin Miryeganeh	Plant Molecular Ecology	Mangrove Trees as Models for Climate-Driven Adaptation: A Genomic, Epigenomic, and Transcriptomic Approach FY2025 Matin Miryeganeh
16.	Ryuho Kataoka	Space Phyiscs	Machine-learning techniques for space weather forecasting. Designing and building all-sky cameras for auroral imaging. FY2025 Kataoka