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Latest News
- 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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- 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
