Ocean is the source of life and has given rise to biodiversity. To understand our planet and human beings, knowledge about marine organisms are essential. The 21st century is the era of life and environmental sciences. Shimoda Marine Research Center (SMRC), the center for the research and education of marine biology in University of Tsukuba, aims to explore the basic principles of life and interactions among organisms through education and research using both basic and advanced technologies on marine organisms.

March 13th, 2013

Shimoda City Tsunami Emergency Drill was carried out with about 21 participants, including center staff, researchers, students, and neighbors. Participants were all able to evacuate to the designated meeting point within 9 minutes.

February 26th, 2013

Assistant professor Hiroaki Nakano and his collaborators have succeeded in observing the development of Xenoturbella for the first time since the animal was first discovered more than 130 years ago. These results were published online in Nature Communications on February 26th, 2013.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n2/full/ncomms2556.html
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/public/press/130227.pdf

November 21st, 2012

A research group including Director Professor Kazuo Inaba and assistant professor Kogiku Shiba has discovered that calaxin, an axonemal Ca2+ binding protein, regulates sperm chemotaxis. These results were published online in PNAS on November 20th, 2012.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/11/20/1217018109.abstract?sid=677dd23b-e218-4dc4-b4b3-341217ab9b50
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/public/press/121120.pdf
http://www.shimoda.tsukuba.ac.jp/images/news/241120inaba_shizuoka.pdf

November 21st, 2012

An interview of Director Professor Kazuo Inaba concerning disaster prevention was aired on the Prefectural News, Shizuoka Asahi Television.

November 11th, 2012

Assistant professor Shigeki Wada, technical staffs Yasutaka Tsuchiya and Hideo Shinagawa participated in the "Recovery Support Program of the Heart" held at Kitaibaraki Municipal Seika Elementary School, Ibaraki Prefecture. In cooperation with Sugadaira Montane Research Center, University of Tsukuba, both marine and land animals were displayed, and children were very excited to actually touch the animals and to study them through a microscope.

November 10th, 2012

Open Laboratory and Public Lectures were held at Shimoda Marine Research Center.
http://www.shimoda.tsukuba.ac.jp/images/news/241114_izusinbun_ippan.pdf

July 10th, 2012

Tsunami Emergency Drill was carried out with about 60 participants, including center staff, researchers, students, neighbors and tourists.  A newspaper article reporting the drill (in Japanese ) : http://www.shimoda.tsukuba.ac.jp/images/news/240712_izushinbun.pdf

July 6th, 2012

Shimoda Marine Research Center is seeking for an assistant professor in marine biology (including Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, etc.).  Please see Word file for information.  Deadline: July 27th, 2012.

May 23rd, 2012

Research Project 'Evolution and diversity of developmental programs of the nervous system in deuterostomes' was adopted as a Pre-Strategic Initiative (Research Project) by the Organization for the Support and Development of Strategic Initiatives, University of Tsukuba.  Assistant Professor Takeo Horie is the leader, and associate professor Shunsuke Yaguchi and assistant professor Hiroaki Nakano are the co-investigators.  http://www.osi.tsukuba.ac.jp/sub_osi/english_index.html

May 2nd, 2012

Assistant Professor Shigeki Wada has been awarded the Research Grant of Geoenvironmental Science from the Asahi Beer Research Foundation.
http://www.asahibeer.co.jp/csr/philanthropy/ab-academic/index.html

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