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 2025 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 What's in a Name Prof. Economo described a new ant species and named it ‘Pristomyrmex tsujii’ after University of Ryukyus Professor Kazuki Tsuji. 23 October 2013 Research Update Computational Models of Gene Regulation in Entire Fruit Fly Embryo OIST's Dr. Garth Ilsley has succeeded in modelling early regulation of development in the fruit fly Drosophila. 07 August 2013 Research Update Behind the Scenes in Ant Research Ants specimens were collected over a two-week trip to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens. The species richness in Xishuangbanna is now being threatened by deforestation. 30 July 2013 Research Update 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). 16 July 2013 Research Update OIST Researchers First to Uncover Mechanisms Behind Sensing Alkalinity In a paper published in Current Biology, Professor Ichiro Maruyama and colleagues have uncovered the mechanisms behind how an organism senses alkalinity in its environment. 09 May 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 Institutional News Swimming Feat The video story about fish hoping to make an uphill trip from the ocean to the Shirin-Gawa stream that passes through the OIST campus. 08 January 2013 Media Coverage Coverage of OIST in the media and on the web Media Coverage
Research Update What's in a Name Prof. Economo described a new ant species and named it ‘Pristomyrmex tsujii’ after University of Ryukyus Professor Kazuki Tsuji. 23 October 2013
Research Update Computational Models of Gene Regulation in Entire Fruit Fly Embryo OIST's Dr. Garth Ilsley has succeeded in modelling early regulation of development in the fruit fly Drosophila. 07 August 2013
Research Update Behind the Scenes in Ant Research Ants specimens were collected over a two-week trip to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens. The species richness in Xishuangbanna is now being threatened by deforestation. 30 July 2013
Research Update 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). 16 July 2013
Research Update OIST Researchers First to Uncover Mechanisms Behind Sensing Alkalinity In a paper published in Current Biology, Professor Ichiro Maruyama and colleagues have uncovered the mechanisms behind how an organism senses alkalinity in its environment. 09 May 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
Institutional News Swimming Feat The video story about fish hoping to make an uphill trip from the ocean to the Shirin-Gawa stream that passes through the OIST campus. 08 January 2013
