Amy West

For one OIST biologist, bringing up oversized one-celled animals from the deep ocean is on par with peering at the small sculptures in an ant’s head. At first glance these animals appear to have nothing in common, but she’s found their evolutionary stories share common themes.

If weather and technology cooperate during the next four years OIST researcher, Daisuke Hasegawa of the Marine Biophysics Unit will have received more than 800,000 emails from the ocean.

An international collaborative proposal by OIST researcher Mahesh Bandi has won him and his colleagues a Young Investigators Grant from The Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP).

Behind the doors of the Churaumi Plaza at the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, visitors can now view a live display of the exact staghorn coral whose genome was first decoded by the OIST Marine Genomic Unit.

The Collective Interactions unit makes the details behind many theories more palpable by studying phenomena that can be seen with the naked eye.