Complexity science - impacting environment and society
Apr 16, 2024
This time on the OIST podcast: Prof. Ulf Dieckmann, head of OIST’s Complexity Science and Evolution Unit, gives a glimpse into his work at the interface of math, biology, and physics. This episode is part of our series on OIST’s Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation, which is dedicated to the “One World, One...
Jan 23, 2024
In the latest episode of OIST’s Global Bioconvergence Center podcast series, DJ Nick Luscombe speaks to the team managing the Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) about the highlights and challenges of pursuing the new center’s long-term objectives. The...
Nov 28, 2023
In the latest episode of our Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation podcast series, DJ Nick Luscombe speaks with researchers from the OKEON Churamori Project, who use genomics, machine learning and acoustic monitoring to gain new insights into ecosystem health.
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Feb 8, 2023
In episode #8 of the Connectomics podcast, Mark sits down with cognitive scientist and ethical AI researcher, Dr. Abeba Birhane.
In this episode, they talk about Abeba's work auditing large image datasets, how they have discovered racial biases in these data sets, and what the implications of that are.
They...
Jul 11, 2022
Prof. Paola Laurino leads the Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). Fascinated by proteins, she has spent much of her career looking at the structure, function, and evolution of enzymes, a group of proteins that facilitates vital chemical...