Pretty excited to share our new preprint!
Non-photosynthetic Plastid Replacement by a Primary Plastid in the Making
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

New visiting programs at OIST for experimentalists and domestic visitors! Application deadline: Sep 15, 2025.
www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...

Our Imaging Facility is looking for a microscopy specialist. EM skills that would be especially useful are e.g., HPF & freeze-substitution, FIB-SEM, SBF-SEM, array tomography, TEM tomography, immunolabeling, and CEMOVIS. Please share far and wide. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/micr...

Here's a nice paper showing which archaea and bacteria grow there.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

This was a long trip from Okinawa, but definitely worth it! Microbe sampling from the Jinata Onsen, Shikinejima.