Dr. Violeta Lopez-Huerta and Professor Gordon Arbuthnott of the OIST Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit

Brain slices of older tissues prepared with ice-cold (blue) and warm (red) preparation methods, as demonstrated by Shiwei Huang and Marylka Yoe Uusisaari in a paper in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. The asterisks (*) indicate visible neurons. While no healthy neurons are visible in the left image, seven are visible in the right. Abbreviations: PN, Purkinje neuron layer; ML, molecular layer; GrC, granular cell layer.

OIST researcher Emi Furukawa, center; Jorge Moll, second from left; Patricia Bado, middle; Paulo Mattos, right with colleagues at IDOR in Rio de Janeiro.

Alexander Badrutdinov using a microscope to take a close look at a prototype developed by the lithography system.

Professor Evan Economo and researchers in the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit compared genetic sequences from hundreds species of Pheidole, a group of ants with mysteriously high diversity. They used these sequences to construct a Pheidole evolutionary tree that suggests Pheidole evolved the same way twice, to take over the New World and then the Old World.

Professor Amy Shen holds a microfluidic platform, a tool she uses to transform soapy mixtures into gels.