•   February 20 2023

New Publication

Associate Professor Hiroaki Nakano, in collaboration with a researcher at the National Institute of Genetics, established a method to induce artificial spawning in Xenoturbella, and have made new findings concerning the reproduction of the animal such as eggs and sperm being released from ruptures in the body wall. These results were published online in Communications Biology on February 17th, 2023.

→ Induced spawning with gamete release from body ruptures during reproduction of Xenoturbella bocki

→ TSUKUBA JOURNAL

•   February 1 2023

Public Outreach

A special exhibition "Investigating Marine Life! -Introduction of JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey-" will be held at the Shirahama Aquarium, Kyoto University to display the results of the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey.

Date: February 1st until May 14th

→ Click here for details

→ Click here for the exhibition

•   January 1 2023

New Publication

PhD Student Callum Hudson (based at OIST), Assistant Professors Ben Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, and Prof. Jason Hall-Spencer, along with collaborator Prof. Sean Connell, report how ocean acidification increases the impact of typhoons on marine ecosystems. The research was published online in January 2023 in Science of the Total Environment.

→ Ocean acidification increases the impact of typhoons on algal communities

•   November 4 2022

New Publication

An international research group led by assistant professor Yuka Kushida of Rissho University and associate professor James Davis Reimer of the University of the Ryukyus, with associate professor Hiroaki Nakano as a member, discovered a characteristic evolutionary pattern of the cnidarian sea pens and proposed a new hypothesis on their common ancestor. These results were published in "PeerJ".

→ Exploring the trends of adaptation and evolution of sclerites with regards to habitat depth in sea pens

→ Press Release

•   November 2 2022

Media Coverage

Prof. Kazuo Inaba appeared in the NHK BS Premium program "Humanience: 4 Billion Year Plan" and his research on cilia was introduced.

→ Program HP
→ Introductory article on the Life and Environmental Systems website (Japanese)

•   November 1 2022

Media Coverage

Assistant Professor Sylvain Agostini of our center assisted in the production of the article “Loss of Seaweed Forest a Blow to the Fishing Industry”, which was published in Shizuoka Newspaper on November 1.