•   May 12 2025

Open-laboratory Event

An open-laboratory event will be held on June 14 for promoting the research and educational activities of Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba. If you wish to participate, please register from the form below. The deadline for registration is June 6.

→ Information of the event (the event will be held in Japanese)

→ Registration form - https://forms.gle/7ZovYieC8F4oQGus5

•   April 25 2025

Open Fieldcourse

Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba will hold an open field course "Biodiversity and Ecology of the Izu Peninsula Coast" for 2nd to 4th year undergraduate students from August 4th (Monday) to August 8th (Friday). If you wish to take the course, please send the required documents by June 16th.

→ Required documents can be downloaded from here"

•   April 20 2025

Public Outreach

At the Science and Technology Week "University of Tsukuba Kids University" held at Tsukuba campus, staff and students of the Center brought sea creatures and seashells from Shimoda and held the "Touch Sea Creatures and Learn About Living Things!" event.

→ 2025 Science and Technology Week "University of Tsukuba Kids University"

•   April 18 2025

Media Coverage

A photo taken by student Ms. Seira Terao during the Laboratory and Field Studies in Marine Zoology course held at the Center won the Atabo-Sushi Award at the "MicroArt2025" microscopic photography competition hosted by ScienceBar_INCUBATOR.

→ List of award winning photographs

•   March 25 2025

Award

Ryo Yokoya, a graduate student in the Inaba laboratory, was awarded the Biology Programme Leader Awards from the University of Tsukuba

→ Inaba Laboratory homepage

•   March 22 2025

Media Coverage

A graduate student, Ryo Yokoya, Assistant Professor Kogiku Shiba and Professor Kazuo Inaba from the Shimoda Marine Research Center appeared on BS Fuji program "Galileo X" and introduced their research on sperm and cilia.
Date and Time: Sunday, March 23, 2025 08:28-09:00
[Rerun]: Sunday, March 30, 2025 08:28-09:00

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•   October 18 2024

New Publication

Dr. Junko Yaguchi and Associate Professor Shunsuke Yaguchi at our center have discovered that, in sea urchin larvae, the pylorus (the entrance of the gut) and the anus (the exit of the gut) open in response to light stimuli. Furthermore, they revealed that the pylorus and anus respond to different wavelengths of light. This finding suggests that precise control over the opening of the gut entrance and exit played a key role in evolutionary adaptations, allowing food to be properly retained within the digestive tract and enabling efficient digestion and nutrient absorption.

→  Light-modulated neural control of sphincter regulation in the evolution of through-gut

→ TSUKUBA JOURNAL

•   August 23 2024

Media Coverage

Associate Professor Hiroaki Nakano assisted in the production of the article “From eggs to adults: the first successful breeding of the nudibranch sea slug Hypselodoris festiva”, which was published on the NHK Shizuoka website. It was also featured in the NHK News.

→ Web article

→ NHK news

•   July 21 2024

New Publication

PhD student Makiko Hayashi and Associate Professor Hiroaki Nakano have raised the nudibranch Hypselodoris festiva from eggs to adults in the laboratory. This is the first report on the rearing of a sea slug belonging to the family Chromodorididae from eggs to adults in the laboratory. The research was published online on July 21st, 2024 in Scientific Reports.

→ Staging of post-settlement growth in the nudibranch Hypselodoris festiva

→ TSUKUBA JOURNAL