Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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

Monday, December 17, 2012

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

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

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.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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.  

Sunday, November 4, 2012

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.