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.

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

Dr Julien Madéo's projects at OIST are focused on THz and their characteristics.

Athanasios Margiolakis and Bala Murali Krishna Mariserla, OIST Posdoctoral researcher, perform an experiment in Femtosecond laser laboratory.

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.