Friday, April 29, 2011

27th, April lab. meeting

It was very small meeting.

1. please charge lab. maintenance fee.
2. about new grad. student room,
if you want to put your desk in it, tell it Jamie.

it's all.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

New paper!

Just accepted at Zoologica Scripta:

52. Takuma Fujii, James Davis Reimer. Phylogeny of the highly divergent family Microzoanthidae (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) from the Pacific. Zoologica Scripta.

A new family!

Friday, April 22, 2011

20th April lab. meeting

1.  the grant from Ryukyu Univ.
The grant for master or doctor course students is suggested by Univ.
The dead line is 16th, May.
This is chance for student!

2. Stamp
If you want Reimer-sensei's stamp, go to the office at 5 floor.
Tamashiro-san would respond you.

3. Jamie's schedule
Jamie will go to Australia from 25th April, and he will not use Internet from 1th-17th May.
If you want to buy some supplies, tell it Obuchi-san, Takuma-san, or Sung-yin.

4. Part time-job
Biology experiment class is hold at 26th, 27th, 30th May.
Jamie will be busy these days, so if you can, please help it.
And this will be very good job for your purse.

5. 22th April, Horikuchi-sensei's seminar will be hold at OIST.
the start time is 15:00.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

6th, April lab. meeting

1. undergraduate students seminar
It will be hold at Wednesday. everybody can join.

2. graduate students(Reimer lab.) seminar
It will be hold at Wednesday, afternoon.

3. Jamie business trip
18-19th,April  Ishigaki(with Kris)
25th,April - 20th,May Australia (date may be changed)
13-22th,June Singapore
8-16th,July Iriomote

4. Yuka-san study abroad
leave Okinawa in July, the second week

5. water mentenance
9th,April will be no water day

6. Next Wedensday
After lab. meeting, We will talk about the diving safety rule.
Please attend.
And after it, the seminar explanation (for graduate students) will be hold.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

PTX making waves

Looks like the paper in PLoS One is making some waves:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/05/world’s-2nd-deadliest-poison-in-an-aquarium-store-near-you/

cheers,

J with a big thanks to Kevin Zelnio for finding this!
Our new paper on palytoxin is finally out at PLoS One:

Palytoxin Found in Palythoa sp. Zoanthids (Anthozoa,
Hexacorallia) Sold in the Home Aquarium Trade.
Jonathan R. Deeds, Sara M. Handy, Kevin D. White, James D. Reimer. 2011.6: e18235