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.

Dr. C. M. Chandrashekar and Professor Thomas Busch run simulations and carry out analytical studies to understand quantum particles in the Quantum Systems Unit at OIST.

Professor Sugawara, head of the Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit at OIST.

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

Professor Qi and members of his research unit developed a hybrid deposition method to produce perovskite solar cells.  From left: Yabing Qi, Sonia R. Raga, Shenghao Wang, Luis K. Ono, and Yuichi Kato.