Okayama University e-Bulletin

Promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Across Generations by Launching SDGs Youth Project

- Okayama University, Japan publishes the October 2019 issue of its online newsletter

OKAYAMA, Japan, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This issue includes a feature on contribution on "Two symposia commemorating the 70th anniversary of Okayama University to further contribute to the SDGs". Other contents include news of "Okayama University accredited to implement the Support Program on Collaborative Innovation Networks for Medical Device"; and research highlights include "Challenging the theoretical assessment of a hypothesis on protein folding stability that has been believed for 60 years", published in Scientific Reports.

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Feature

Two symposia commemorating the 70th anniversary of Okayama University to further contribute to the SDGs

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/feature/vol25/feature_001.html

News

Whole Institution's Approach of SDG efforts presented at the UN headquarters: University officials led by President Makino participate in the High-Level Political Forum in July 2019

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/news/vol25/news_001.html

Welcome reception held by Okayama University and the U.S. Department of State for CLS American students

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/news/vol25/news_002.html

Promote the SDGs across generations! The SDGs Youth Project launched

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/news/vol25/news_003.html

Okayama University accredited to implement the "Support Program on Collaborative Innovation Networks for Medical Device"

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/news/vol25/news_004.html

Okayama University Weight Training Club won the national championship!

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/news/vol25/news_005.html

Research Highlights

Identification of the proteins governing the formation of "magnetic teeth" in chiton

Chiton deposit magnetite (Fe3O4) on their mineralized radular teeth.

http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/user/kouhou/ebulletin/research_highlights/vol25/highlights_001.html

Michiko Nemoto, Graduate School of Environmental and life Science Okayama University and David Kisailus, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside report the first comprehensive gene inventory of gumboot chiton, Cryptochiton stelleri, providing a broad overview of magnetite teeth mineralization. Furthermore, their work identified several proteins that may be involved in magnetite formation.