Lab meeting on June 24th, 2009

1. Tanks & Cleaning: YI

2. Progress report: YI

3. FS, CA, JDR will attend the CBE conference at Busena, Okinawa, Japan Next week.

4. Mr. Ono who was one of the JDR's coworkers will visit Okinawa on June 28 or 29th.

5. Ms. Sung Ying who is a member of Chen's lab will come to Okinawa on June 29th and atay in our lab for 2 weeks.

6. New information about grant funding. ・・・・titech-tlo.or.jp

Photo: Cape Manza

Lab meeting on June 17th, 2009

It was a very short meeting.
1. Tanks keeper & cleaning: YM

2. A inspector will come to check our lab on June 22th. So, please don't put your samples fixed with EtOH or formaline in the students room.

3. No boat fishing in this weekend. Fred will organize night-fishing in July.

Today's pic; dead sand dollar taken in Oura, Okinawa, Japan

Lab meeting on June 10th, 2009

1. Tanks & Cleaning: FS

2. Progress reports: CA & YM

3. CBE conference will take place on June 29~July 4th.

4. Alcohol/Formalin check - on July 22nd.

5. JDR & MO will be absent from University during the next week or two.

6. If anyone is interested in scholarships, check the Inamori Scholarship on the web.

More recently, some coral species in Okinawa have spawned. I hope some of us (especially me) can take a picture or movie of coral spawning!

by YI

Lab meeting on June 3rd

1. Tanks keeper & Cleaning: YH

2. Progress report: TF/YI

3. There will be a conference/symposium.
Holobiont symposium in Taiwan 　→　June 22th~23
Japan Zoological Science Conference in Shizuoka 　→　Sep. 17~19th.

4. JR will go to Taiwan for sampling on Sep. 6~12th.

5. JR is planning a lab short trip at Oku on Sep. 26~27th.

6. JR might go sampling to Guam in mid of September....?

7. Be careful not to make things fall off from the balcony of lab room. After you use blue backets, please put weights inside.