Lab meeting 3/24/2013

1. March 18 - Seminar at RS building
2. March 22 - Laboratory clean up since 10am.
3. March 21 - Graduation ceremony in the afternoon.
4. March 26 - New Postdoc Iria, welcome!!
5. March 31 - New Postdoc Julian, welcome!!
6. Please copy a PDF of your Thesis to the lab computers.
7. The diving in oura-bay will be tentatively on March 25 or 29.

Lab. Meeting 2013/01/16

- This Weekend is the Entrance Test in the Ryukyus Univeristy, So the entrance will be restricted. 
- Reimer Sensee will be at Ishigaki for two day between 25-29 for sampling.
- At the begging of March Reimer Sensee is planing to go Sampling in Palau, those how want to join please tell sensee.  

New paper for 2013

Hello everyone,

Our Marine Biology paper is out - feature article. You can check it out here, and as it is a feature article, it is free to download for some time.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-012-2158-4

And, just in, news on the lab's first paper to be accepted in 2013:
Yuya Hibino, Peter Todd, Carey D Ashworth, Masami Obuchi, James Davis Reimer. Monitoring colony color and zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium spp.) condition in the reef zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa in Okinawa, Japan. Marine Biology Research (in press)

Cheers,

JDR

Another paper!

We just had the following paper accepted in the journal Marine Biology as a feature article!

Desmond Ong Chin Wei, James D. Reimer, Peter A. Todd. Morphologically plastic responses to shading in the zoanthids Zoanthus sansibaricus and Palythoa tuberculosa. Marine Biology

New papers and news links

Some new papers:

Two new species of Neozoanthus (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia, Zoantharia) from the Pacific. James Davis Reimer, Yuka Irei, Takuma Fujii. ZooKeys 246: 69-87.

Taku Ohara, Takuma Fujii, Iori Kawamura, Masaru Mizuyama, Javier Montenegro, Haruka Shikiba, Kristine White, James D. Reimer. First record of mesophotic Pachyseris foliosa reefs in Japan. Marine Biodiversity (in press).

And some news links to the first one:

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/12/04/neozoanthus-uchina-caleyi-newest-species-zoanthid/

http://novataxa.blogspot.jp/2012/12/2012-neozoanthus-caleyi-uchina.html

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/article00756.html

cheers,

JDR

Lab. Meeting 2012/11/28

• The labs meetings will continue as normal will Jame is gone. 
• Please if you can help the new members of the lab to start their research.
• A Member from  Academia Sinica is coming to the lab on December 10th-14th. 
• We have to plan together with Taku the coral survey by December 10th.
• Rising Start symposium is on December 20th.

21th lab. meeting

[announcement]
Tax free alcohol arrived @354
About the grant of JASSO, more details @5th floor office

[Jamies schedule]
11/30-12/07 Amakusa
12/09-12/14  Palau
12/14-12/17or18  Ishigaki Is
12/22-12/24  Canada
For last year of undergraduate and master students, please submit your thesis by e-mail.

Lab. Meeting 2012/11/14
- Those students interested in part-time job as TA and/or RA, please tell James as soon as possible since dead line for registrations is Nov. 19th.
- The Nov. 16th, Friday, is the dead line for the abstracts for RS symposium.
- Since Nov, 15th James will be in Taiwan for research.

MISE Lab. Meeting 07/11/2012

• The practice for JCRS poster presentations will be on Nov. 14th at RS-building. 
• There will be presentations about the last year Summer Course on Nov . 16th.
• RS symposium will be on December 20th.
• Nov. 16th is the deadline for abstracts. 
• Please check for the PADI scholarships in the Web. 
• Let Jame know if you need to buy something for your research.
• If there is anything big to throw away, please tell Jame.  

MISE Lab. Meeting 10/31/2012

- JCRS practice will be done on November 14th.
-Jame will be in Taiwan from November 15th-20th.
- Let know Jame if you need to order something for your experiments.

MISE Lab. Meeting 10/24/2012

- If there is problem with the RS-1F air-cont contact Jame.
- Fast-Mac address will change since November 1th:

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株式会社 ファスマック
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〒243-0021 神奈川県厚木市岡田3088 A棟4階
Tel  ; 046-281-9902　
Fax  ; 046-281-9931
Email; seq@fasmac.co.jp　(解析ご依頼用)
  　　seqsupport@fasmac.co.jp (お問い合わせ用)
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- October 30th Security inspection in Science Building.
- There will be new personal in Biology office since November 1th.
- If you need very fine tweezers, please contact Hatsuko-san.
- If you need to order material for you research, please contact Jame.
- We still looking for the lost SCUBA regulator and BC.
- Students with research works applicable to Palau please show your proposal to Jame.
- Seminar schedule is changing on December 5th.

New deep sea coral paper

Hi all, one more paper coming out soon in PLoS One.

A. M. Addamo, J. D. Reimer, M. Taviani, A. Friewald, A. Machordom. Critical review of diagnostic features in scleractinian systematics. Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) in the scleractinian phylogeny and its intraspecific diversity. PLoS One (in press).

cheers,

MISE

MISE Lab. Meeting 10/17/2012

1- If somebody have a RS building card that is not been using so often, please let Jame sensee know.
2- Class registration dead line is tomorrrow 10/19/2012.
3- The MISE seminars will start Wensday next week.
4- Please do not modify the settings of the air-cond in RS building first flour, and empty the dehumidifier water tanks when ever you can. If you find the air-cond off please let Jame Sensee know.
5- Wireless network is already available in the new student room 335. the name of the Network is MISE0335 Common Network, for the password please contact Masaru-san. 

New paper!

Another new paper, taxonomic in nature:

Martyn E.Y. Low, James Davis Reimer. Isaura Lamouroux, in Audouin et al., 1826, an available name and objective synonym of Isaurus Gray, 1828: reversal of precedence (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). Zootaxa (accepted).

cheers! 

Some new papers

Sorry, looks like we had a summer holiday! We will have a new blogger from next week. In the meantime, here are some new papers for you to enjoy:

1. James Davis Reimer, Colin Foord, Yuka Irei. 2012. Species diversity of shallow water zoanthids (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) in Florida. Journal of Marine Biology 2012: Article ID 856079. doi:10.1155/2012/856079
2. Tohru Naruse, Tin-Yam Chan, Heok Hui Tan, Shane T. Ahyong & James Davis Reimer. 2012. Scientific Results of the Kumejima Marine Biodiversity Expedition—KUMEJIMA 2009—Editorial*. Zootaxa 3367: 1-4.
3. Todd C. LaJeunesse, John Parkinson, James Davis Reimer. 2012. A genetics-based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with Cnidaria. Journal of Phycology (in press).
4. Kristine N. White, James Davis Reimer. 2012. DNA phylogeny of Ryukyus Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Contributions to Zoology 81: 159-165.
5. Mark John Costello, James Reimer, Zoltan Szabo, Iria Fernandez-Silva, Kee Alfian Abdul Adzis, Gert Wörheide, John Beardall, Joelle C. Y. Lai, Wong Ching Lee, Alexei Orlov, Gray A. Williams. 2012. Fostering international collaboration in marine biodiversity sciences in the Asia-Pacific region. Pacific Science (in press).
6. Dhugal J Lindsay, H Yoshida, K Uemura, H Yamamoto, S Ishibashi, J Nishikawa, JD Reimer, R Fitzpatrick. 2012. The unthered remotely-operated vehicle PICASSO-1 and its deployment from chartered dive vessels for deep-sea surveys off Okinawa, Japan, and Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, Australia. Marine Technology Society Journal 46: 20-32.
7. Masanori Nonaka, Masaru Nakamura, Makoto Tsukahara, James Davis Reimer. 2012. Histological examination of precious corals from the Ryukyu Archipelago. Journal of Marine Biology Article ID 519091. doi: 10.1155/2012/519091
8. James Davis Reimer, Shoichiro Suda. 2012. Towards a cooperative research future in the East China Sea - selected research from the 8th International Workshop on Oceanography and Fisheries Science (editorial). Journal of Oceanography. doi: 10.1007/s10872-012-0138-4.
9. Martyn E.Y. Low, James Davis Reimer. 2012. Zoanthid housekeeping: some nomenclatural issues in the Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). Zootaxa 3485: 83-88.
10. W. Appletans + others (including J. Reimer). 2012. The magnitude of global marine biodiversity. Current Biology (in press).