FY2014

The FY2014 members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the first 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.

 

STG Associate

Discipline

Brief description of project

1.

Mirona Chirienco

Geology

Past climate and environmental change

FY2014 Chirienco

2.

Juanita Choo

Environmental Science

Human impact on the Amazon rainforest and Okinawa

FY2014 Choo

3.

Anya Dani

Art Conservation

Preservation of cultural objects in Okinawa museum, especially pottery and old musical instruments

FY2014 Dani

4.

Charlotte Fournier

Biophysics

The molecular dynamics of the epidermal growth factor receptor in cell membranes

FY2014 Fournier

5.

Garth Ilsley

Genomics

Regulation of gene expression

FY2014 Ilsley

6.

Reina Komiya

Biology

Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells

FY2014 Komiya

7.

André Leier

Systems Biology

Development of mathematical tools and models for biological and physiological processes

FY2014 Leier

8.

Cecilia Lu

Neuroscience

Homeostatic regulation of neural connectivity

FY2014 Lu

9.

Payal Shah

Economics

Analyzing the social and environmental consequences of natural resource management policies and to formulate optimal strategies to address environmental challenges such as climate change

FY2014 Shah

10.

Hitoshi Sugiyama

Medicine

Improving the effectiveness of in vitro fertilization

FY2014 Sugiyama