The FY2020 Members of the Science and Technology Group
This is the FY2020 Annual Report produced by the Science and Technology Group. This work is described below, and reveals a diverse program of research and cultural development complementary to the rest of the OIST programme.
Please refer to the PDF link for each member's Annual Report FY2020.
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STG Associate |
Discipline |
Brief description of project |
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1. |
Mirona Chirienco |
Geology |
Past climate and environmental change |
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2. |
Juanita Choo |
Ecology |
Human impacts on biodiversity and plant-animal interactions in tropical and sub-tropical forests |
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3. |
Anya Dani |
Art Conservation |
Preservation of cultural objects in Okinawa museum, especially pottery and old musical instruments |
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4. |
Eugene Khaskin |
Organometallics |
Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes |
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5. |
Reina Komiya |
Biology |
Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells |
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6. |
Yohsuke Moriyama |
Cell Biology |
How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan |
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7. |
Yoko Nomura |
Biotechnology |
1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers |
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8. |
Payal Shah |
Environmental Economics |
Analyze the social and environmental consequences of natural resource management policies and formulate optimal strategies to address environmental challenges such as climate change |
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9. |
Satoshi Takebayashi |
Organometallic chemistry |
Development of innovative catalysts to activate small molecules based on organometallic chemistry |
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10. |
Eugene Kroll |
Molecular Biology |
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| 11. | Yuki Nakazawa | Cell biology |
Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly |
| 12. | Ai Kiyomitsu | Biology |
Cell division in Medaka early embryos |
| 13. | Petra Svetlikova | Plant Biology |
Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants |
FY2020 Chirienco