Institutional News The Secret of the Skywalk The benches on the OIST Skywalk hide some amazing technology. 26 February 2014
Institutional News Watch the Progress of Lab 3 Up-to-date photos of the Lab 3 construction site are now available on the OIST website. 24 December 2013
Institutional News First OIST Graduate University Annual Report In November 2011, OIST opened as a graduate university, and its first annual report is now available. 29 November 2012
Institutional News It Takes a Village Though landscaping will continue for another month, the inside of the Village Center is ready to go, and students and researchers have already moved in. 13 September 2012
Institutional News Ice for AC: Time-Shifting Electricity Consumption to Save Money and Level Demand Tucked away beneath the administrative offices and meeting rooms of the Center Building is a tank of over 540,000 liters of water. Every night, two huge “super-coolers” freeze this water, producing a block of ice weighing over 180 tons – more than a fully-grown blue whale. 01 July 2011
Research Update Vesicles, the butlers of the brain Scientists at OIST are working to illuminate the minute details of how brain cells called neurons communicate. 29 June 2011
Institutional News The First Column: Lab 2 Begins to Take Shape The construction of Lab 2 began in November 2010, and now that the ground floor slab is finished, work has begun on the steel superstructure that will serve as the skeleton of the building. 26 May 2011
Research Update G0 Cell Unit work on fission yeast cells in low-glucose may lead to new research into metabolic diseases Researchers at the OIST G0 Cell Unit have found that the actual glucose requirements of fission yeast cells and human cells are surprisingly similar and that the life span of fission yeast could be prolonged by glucose starvation, an effect that had been observed in higher organisms like human beings. 13 May 2011
