23 Feb. lab. meeting

1 sequence
if you have the DNA samples need to do sequence, please tell Jaime.

2 boat diving plan
 3 Mar. - 4, we will go diving Ourawan.
14 Mar. - 15 or 16 Mar. - 17, we will go diving Teniya.
If you want to go, please tell Jaime.

3 fishing plan
Jaime parents will come and go fishing, Payao.
Its date don't be decided yet, may be any day, 20 Mar. - 26
If you want to go, please tell Jaime.

4 cleaning
the end of March or the start of April, let's clean our room.

5 Jamie live at Uruma, so he can't come back Univ. at night.
Skype is usable.

6 Coral reef book
If you want the coral reef book which is published by the committee of coral reef,
please tell it Jamie or Takuma-san.

7 Coral work shop 'the identification and classification of coral' will be hold at 24 Mar. -27.
If you are interested in, send e-mail.

Another paper!

Short one on Terpios on the GBR!

Takuma Fujii, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Wenhua Zhou, Euichi Hirose, Allen Chen, James Davis Reimer. Coral-killing cyanobacteriosponge (Terpios hoshinota) on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs (in press).

Coming soon!

A paper at PLoS One:

Palytoxin found in Palythoa sp. zoanthids (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) sold in the home aquarium trade

JR Deeds, SM Handy, KD White, JD Reimer

Almost accepted, and should be an interesting read.

Happy New Year, and a new paper!

2011 looks to be a great year for MISE. We hope you all have a wonderful year, and enjoy your field work.

Also, one new paper accepted at Marine Biology today:
James Davis Reimer, Mamiko Hirose, Yuka Irei, Masami Obuchi, Frederic Sinniger. The sands of time: Rediscovery of the genus Neozoanthus (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) and evolutionary aspects of sand encrustation in brachycnemic zoanthids. Marine Biology (accepted).

new paper!

We had a new paper on spawning in Palythoa accepted - congratulations to Mamiko for her hard work!

Mamiko Hirose, Masami Obuchi, Euichi Hirose, James Davis Reimer. Timing of spawning and early development of Palythoa tuberculosa (Anthozoa, Zoantharia, Sphenopidae) in Okinawa, Japan. Biological Bulletin (accepted).

12/9 lab meeting

1. Nasu Satoko(3th student) will become lab. member from next week. (for a month)
2. When you notice that Rising star billding room's smell is bad, please tell it Jaime or Obuchi-san.
3. Now, we don't have a parking lot for Rising star billding.
4. Next week Mondey, Jamie will go to OIST at Uruma city.
                  Tuesday, Jaime, Kris and Nate will go diving to Bise. If you want, tell Jaime.
                  Thursday, a man who is German will come to lab.

5. Printer at Rising star buillding
    1th floor May be buy it...
    2th floor the memory is full now...
   Printer at room 354
    This is full work season. If you notice that printer's condition is crazy or paper will be reduced, 
    please tell it.

new paper!

Another paper of ours was accepted today:

James Davis Reimer, Masami Obuchi, Yuka Irei, Takuma Fujii, Yoko Nozawa. Shallow water brachycnemic zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from Taiwan: a preliminary survey. Zoological Studies (accepted).