Biodiversity & Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology Graduate University
We are happy to welcome our newest lab member, Nitish Narula, who comes highly recommended from the Avian phylogenomics group at NMSU. Nitish is our new computing technician and will work on specimen and molecular databases, bioinformatics, and statistical data analyses. He’s also got the best beard at OIST. Welcome!
The lab recently expanded by one member. We are excited o welcome John Deyrup to the team as a Research Technician. John comes to us (most recently) from Rutgers University, where he did a thesis on Dictyoptera phylogenetics. John has a great set of skills ranging from insect curation to molecular work and even some programming experience. He is going to be working on all the projects going on in the lab in some capacity.
We have two technicians positions open now: one for a Research Technician, to do all kinds of things around the lab including manage the ant collection, and one for a Research Computing technician, to manage computer systems and help design applications and technologies that help us do our work.
More details about these positions on these pages: http://arilab.unit.oist.jp/research-technicians/ (English) or http://arilab.unit.oist.jp/採用情報/ (Japanese).
The official names of our lab are a bit of a mouthful, so we started calling it “Arilab” for short. “Ari” is a rough transliteration of the Japanese word for “ant” (蟻), so welcome to the 蟻 研究室 !
In January 2013, we inaugurated an exhibition of ant photographs in the tunnel. These high resolution posters allow OIST visitors to discover what ants look like in amazing details. See for yourself in the gallery below!
