Lab meeting on April 7th, 2010

①Some students start to move to Rising Star's new building from the beginning of May (YH, YM, and some other master students, etc...).
②Maintain lab common items correctly after using! (diving gears etc..)
③Rules of using budget for diving tanks are changed. Ask JR for details.
④Next lab meeting starts from 4:45 pm.
⑤Master's seminar -every Friday at 12:50 pm~
⑥Writing class -open to all in lab. (probably every Wednesday's evening)

Happy new school year! -let's work hard + have fun!

Another paper! and sayonara to some students

April, a new school year for Ryudai. Four students graduated, and while two remain with us for their studies, two have left for the next step in their future. YS and MH will be missed, and hopefully their work will become papers soon. Stay tuned.

Also, another paper accepted, this one by CA. It's her first paper with us at MISE.

Catalina Aguilar, James Davis Reimer. 2010. Molecular phylogenetic hypotheses of Zoanthus species (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) using RNA secondary structure of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS2). Marine Biodiversity (accepted).

Congratulations!

Welcome to MISE!

A researcher from Spanish museum, Anna Maria Addamo came to Okinawa on March 14th and will stay at Mise for two and a half months for her research. She is studying about deep cold coral systematics and phylogeography. She is mainly working on Desmophyllum dianthus.

New paper!

Another paper of ours was accepted:

James Davis Reimer, Takuma Fujii. 2010. Four new species and one new genus of zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from the Galápagos. ZooKeys (accepted).

We describe a new genus, and some species from the Galapagos.

More posts coming soon on the Nansei Island trip, graduation, and our new lab member!

New paper!

A small paper of ours was accepted:

MDMR Shah, JD Reimer, T Horiguchi, S Suda. Diversity of dinoflagellate blooms in reef flat tide pools at Okinawa, Japan. Galaxea (accepted).

Once it is out please check our homepage for details!

JDR

Lab meeting on Feb. 10th, 2009

1. Tanks & Cleaning: OT
2. Please make your own web-page for MISE homepage.
3. Water clarification apparatus in room 354 is broken.
4. Packing for Terpios sampling trip -on Feb. 27th or 28th.

Lab meeting on Feb. 3rd, 2009

1. Tanks & Cleaning: HS

2. Lab cleaning- on Feb. 24th

3. Feb. 5th~March 14th- There is a exhibition about Coral Reefs in the Okinawa Prefectual Museum.

4. JR is absent from the university during Feb. 4th~6th.

5. We bought a book about scientific word. Feel free to use it!

6. A researcher from Spain will come to MISE from March 15th.

7. A building for Rising Star Program should be completed at the end of March.

8. Schedule
Feb. 5th- Title deadline for master thesis
10th- Deadline for master thesis
16th- Doctor's presentation, deadline for undergraduate thesis
18th- Master's presentation
19th- Printing 4th-year students' posters
23rd- Undergraduate's presentation