FY2016

The FY2016 members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2016 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 links for each member's Annual Report FY2016.

 

 

STG Associate

Discipline

Brief description of project

 

1.

Mirona Chirienco

Geology

Past climate and environmental change

FY2016 Chirienco
 

2.

Juanita Choo

Environmental Science

Human impact on the Amazon rainforest and Okinawa

 

3.

Anya Dani

Art Conservation

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

 

4.

Charlotte Fournier

Biophysics

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

 

5.

Garth Ilsley

Genomics

Regulation of gene expression

FY2016 Ilsley
    6.  Eugene Khaskin

Organometallics

Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes

FY2016 Khaskin
 

 7.

Reina Komiya

Biology

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

FY2016 Komiya
 

 8.

Yoko Nomura

Biotechnology

1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs

2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers

FY2016 Nomura
 

 9.

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

FY2016 Shah