Yukiko Shibata

Researchers in the G0 Cell Unit investigated what exactly happened inside fission yeast cells under nitrogen starvation.

In a space draped with yellow curtains, a researcher dressed all in white, with only his eyes showing, is staring at a small plate, the size of a person’s fingernail. The location is a cleanroom in OIST’s Laboratory 2.

Researchers in the Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit discovered that the enzyme called Rho-kinase plays a critical role in the regulation of signal transmission between neurons.

Researchers from Japan and Germany including OIST have succeeded in simulating a network of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses.

OIST's Dr. Garth Ilsley has succeeded in modelling early regulation of development in the fruit fly Drosophila.