•   June 16 2025

Open Fieldcourse

The Center will hold an open course for high school students based in Japan, "Introduction to Marine Biology," from Monday, July 28 to Thursday, July 31, 2025. This course is designed to open the Center, a facility for education and research on the marine environment and its organisms, to high school students so that they can experience and learn about the marine environment and the diverse organisms that inhabit it from a variety of perspectives.

Those who wish to take the course are requested to send the documents below to the University of Tsukuba Shimoda Marine Research Center by post no later than Friday, June 27, 2025.

If there are too many applicants, the University will make a selection and notify you of the result.

→ Guidelines for "Introduction to Marine Biology" (attached PDF)

•   May 26 2025

Media Coverage

Professor Kazuo Inaba from the Shimoda Marine Research Center appeared on TBS radio program “秘密諜報員みなみかわ" and introduced his research on sperm and cilia.

Date and Time: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 23:00-23:30

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•   May 20 2025

Open Fieldcourse

The Shimoda Marine Research Center of the University of Tsukuba will hold an open fieldcourse "Marine Ecological Environmental Science" for graduate students from September 23rd (Tuesday) to September 26th (Friday). If you wish to take the course, please send the required documents to the Graduate School of Education, Life and Environmental Area Support Office, University of Tsukuba by the deadline (July 8th).

→ Required documents can be downloaded from here

•   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