FY2023 STG Annual Report

The FY2023 Members of the Science and Technology Group

This is the FY2023 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 FY2023.

	STG Associate	Discipline	Brief description of project
1.	Mirona Chirienco	Geology	Past climate and environmental change FY2023 Chirienco
2.	Juanita Choo	Ecology	Human impacts on biodiversity and plant-animal interactions in tropical and sub-tropical forests
3.	Eugene Khaskin	Organometallics	Basic Organometallic Research and Catalysis with Coordination Complexes
4.	Reina Komiya	Biology	Reproductive mechanism including long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and Chromatin regulation between germ cells and somatic cells FY2023 Komiya
5.	Yohsuke Moriyama	Cell Biology	How the cellular wound healing affect cell physiology and the lifespan FY2023 Moriyama
6.	Yoko Nomura	Biotechnology	1. Engineering of catalytic RNAs 2. Analysis and functionalization of natural fibers FY2023 Nomura
7.	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 FY2023 Shah
8.	Satoshi Takebayashi	Organometallic chemistry	Development of innovative catalysts to activate small molecules based on organometallic chemistry FY2023 Takebayashi
9.	Eugene Kroll	Molecular Biology	1. Genome restructuring in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2. Entrapped microbial cell factories for prodiuction of valuable biologics 3. Combination metabolic therapy for aggressive tumor FY2023 Kroll
10.	Yuki Nakazawa	Cell biology	Molecular mechanisms of centriole assembly FY2023 Nakazawa
11.	Ai Kiyomitsu	Biology	Cell division in Medaka early embryos FY2023 Kiyomitsu
12.	Petra Svetlikova	Plant Biology	Ecophysiology and genomics of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants
13.	Yuimaru Kubo	Quantum information technology	Developing spin-based quantum information hardware devices FY2023 Kubo
14.	Xinying Jia	Psychology and Psychotherapy Science	1. Social Dynamics and Evolution of Incentive Cultures Utilizing Fear, Shame, and Guilt 2. Review of the treatments of depression
15.	Yuliya Kulikova	Labor Economics	Labor, Health and Family Economics; Inequality FY2023 Kulikova
16.	Midori Ota (Ohta)	Cell biology and Biochemistry	Mechanisms of centrosome assembly and regulation in development FY2023 Ota
17.	Ray Sallan	Odontology, dental physiology and evolution	1. Tooth replacement in fish; cause and effect, environmental and feeding ecology contributions to process. 2. Causal relationship between dental and jaw evolution. FY2023 Sallan
18.	Gunnar Wilken	Mathmatics	Proof theory; ordinal representations; patterns of resemblance FY2023 Wilken