March 11-16, 2024 Morita-san, together with Kwamura-san as a TA, taught a marine biology course that uses Halocynthia embryos for 2nd grade students in Faculty of Biology, Tohoku University and for undergraduate students in other universities.
March 9, 2024 Kumano went to a research presentation session by high school students participating in the "Exploing Germination and Growh Program for Young Scientists" program in Tohoku University (Picture 1).
March 7-8, 2024 Iwasaki-san and Kumano as a unit member went to Sendai to participate in WPI-AIMEC All-Hands Meeting and KICK-OFF SYMPOJIUM.
Feb 28-29, 2024 Kumano went to Onomichi, Hiroshima to participate as a committee member in the anual management meeting of Mukaishima Marine Biological Laboratory.
Feb 27, 2024 Members in the center played badminton again.
Feb 26, 2024 We had a party in the center (Picture 1).
Feb 20, 2024 Kumano lab members went out for dinner in the central area of Aomori city to congratulate Yamasaki-san's successful master thesis work (Pictures 1, 2).
Feb 18-19, 2024 Profs. Tamura, Tanaka and Makino from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, and Kumano gathered in the Ryokan Tatsumikan in Asamushi onsen and had a chat.
Feb 17-18, 2024 We had a retirement party in the center for Dr. Kajiwara from Iwate University, a former student in the center.
Feb 15, 2024 Members in the center played badminton (Pictures 1, 2).
Feb 5, 2024 A former lab member Tao-san with his wife visited the center in their new year vacation. Miyazawa-san, another former lab member Shibata-san and Kumano went out for dinner with them to the central area of Aomori city to celebrate their recent marriage and our reunion (Picture 1).
Feb 5, 2024 Members of the Kyozuka lab from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku Universit, and the Kumano lab held a joint research seminar in the center, where Morita-san talked about single cell RNA-seq analysis and Kumano about branching morphogensis in jellyfish (Picture 1).
Jan 31, 2024 Yamasaki-san successfully defended her master theses in the final exams held in Sendai.
Jan 17-19, 2024 Morita-san again visited theProf. Takeo Horie laboratory in Osaka University to do cDNA preparation for his single nucleus RNA-seq analysis.
Jan 11, 2024 Kumano was celebrated for his birthday as a surprise by students in the center (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Jan 10, 2024 Kumano participated in a new year party of Asamushi Regional Neighbourhood Association (Picture 1)..
Jan 10, 2024 An undergraduate student Nishi-san from Prof. Nishino laboratroy, Hirosaki University, visited the center to learn microinjection technique with Halocynthia eggs.. He is going to stay in the center and try microinjection for the next two weeks.
Jan 6-8, 2024 Kumano taught a marine biology course for three high school students from Tohoku area as part of "Exploing Germination and Growh Program for Young Scientists" program in Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Dec 18, 2023 An undergraduate student Konno-san from the Prof. Isato Araki laboratory, Iwate University, came to the center to do her research on Halocynthia. She is planning on staying doing experiments here unti the end of January, 2024.
Dec 4-10, 2023 Morita-san visited theProf. Takeo Horie laboratory in Osaka University to test conditions on single cell/nucleus separation for his scRNA-seq analysis.
Nov 30, 2023 Emeritus Prof. Hitoshi Sawada from Nagoya University and Prof. Takako Saito from Shizuoka University had research seminars on their works on ascidian fertilization. Prof. Sawada has ended his forty five-year visit to Asamushi for his research on ascidians with this one-week visit (Picture 1).
Nov 16, 2023 Halocynthia group people disposed of many dead ascidians from the aquarium tanks in the center (Picture 1).
Nov 7-9, 2023 Prof. Naohito Takatori from Tokyo Metaropolitan University visited the center to collect morning-type ascidians.
Nov 3-4, 2023 Yamasaki-san and Kumano participated in the 6th Ascidian Research Forum held in Kagoshima. Yamasaki-san had oral presentation on her research elucidating morphogenetic mechanisms leading to form a tailbud shape in Halocynthia embryos (Abstract, Pictures 1, 2).
Oct 26, 2023 Kawamura-san, Miyazawa-san, Yamasaki-san, Kumano, and technical staff members Washio-san and Abe-san went to Kominato and out on a boat off the Kominato Fishing Port to collect morning-type ascidians. Washio-san dived twice this time to compensate for unavailbility of same type ascidians from Ushirogata resulted from their mass death due to the intense heat this summer (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Sep 23, 2023 Morita-san went to Sendai and introduced Kumano's lab research projects in an on-site briefing about the upcoming graduate school entarance examination.
Sep 22, 2023 Kumano taught a part of a marine biology course held in the center for students from Miyagi University of Education and had a lecture on ascidian development.
Sep 18, 2023 Prof. Takeshi Kano from Research Institute of Electrical Communication visited the Asamushi center and taught a interdisciplinary lecture on his robotics research using sea roaches for the student participants in ISCMB2023 (Picture 1).
Sep 15-20, 2023 Interactive Short Course in Marine Biology 2023 was held in the Asamushi center. Japanese and international students from The University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba and Kyoto University participated and mixed together in the course (Pictures 1，2，3，4，5，6，7，8，9).
Sep 14, 2023 Annual Asamushi Center Management Committee was held online.
Sep 11-12, 2023 Profs Urabe, Kyozuka, Sugimoto, Tamura, Kuranaga, Ishikawa, Abe and Kass from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, visited the Asamushi center to hold an Asamushi retreat 2023 (Picture 1).
Sep 11, 2023 A TV program of Umi-to-Nippon Project in Aomori with ATV Aomori TV on local young marine biologists was braodcast and Miyazawa-san was sharing his dream with viewers there.
Sep 8-11, 2023 A marine biology course for graduate students in Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, was held in the Asamushi center. Morita-san, together with Drs. Takuro Itoh from Mt. Hakkoda Botanical Garden,, Kazutaka Kimura from Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Takuya Minokawa from the center were the lecturers.
Sep 7-9, 2023 Kawamura-san, Takahashi-san and Kumano participated in The 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan.
Sep 4-5, 2023 Kumano taught an intensive lecture for graduate students at Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Aug 30 - Sep 1, 2023 All the members in the Kumano's lab went to the Mt. Hakkoda Botanical Garden to hold a lab seminar where we introduced the contents of the papers listed in "The imapct of Developmental Biology in the last 100 years" in the journal Developmental Biology (Pictures 1，2，3，4，5，6，7).
Aug 24, 2023 The finance and facility managers and other administrative members of the university visited the Asamushi center for possible future facility renovation.
Aug 23-25, 2023 Morita-san taught a marine biology course in the center for 1st grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University.
Aug 22, 2023 Kumano had an online lecture on jellyfish during a marine bioloby course held in Marine Biological Laboratory at Mukaishima, Hiroshima.
Aug 6, 2023 Miyazawa-san, Takahashi-san and Yamasaki-san participated in Nebuta Festival as Haneto (Picture 1).
Aug 3-4, 2023 Morita-san taught a marine biology course in Asamushi for students of a local junior high school in Hachinohe
Aug 3, 2023 Two members of the ascidian group in Kumano's lab, Kawamura-san and Yamasaki-san, Abe-san, a technical staff member, and Kumano cleaned up the ascidian facility and terminated this year's ascidian spawning season (Pictures 1，2).
July 29-30, 2023 Morita-san taught a marine biology course in Asamushi for students of a local high school in Hachinohe.
July 29-30, 2023 Kumano participated in a local Zoological Society Meeting of the Tohoku area held in Iwate.
July 27, 2023 Prof. Nagayasu Nakanishi from University of Arkansas visited the Asamushi center and gave his research talk titled "How cnidarian biology informs our understanding of neural evolution (Pictures 1，2).
July 26-27, 2023 Prof. Gary Wessel from Brown University visited the Asamushi center and had his research seminar titled "The many ingredients needed to make an egg" (Picture 1). We, after the seminar, went to a craft beer place "Keika Brewing" recently open in the Asamushi town area.
July 22-25, 2023 Morita-san, Miyazawa-san, Kawamura-san, Takahashi-san, Yamsaki-san and Kumano participated in The 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of developmental Biologists on site in Sendai. Kumano, together with Prof. Hara from Tohoku University, organized Symposium 3 "Diversified mechanisms of germline development in animals" during the meeting.
July 6-7, 2023 Abe-san, a technical staff, and Kumano participated in the anual director meeting of Japan's marine stations held in the Center for Ecological Research in Kyoto Univ. Kumano stopped by Kyoto Aquarium to visit the jellyfish laboratory there (Picture).
July 5, 2023 Dr. Claus Nielsen from University of Copenhagen taught a lecture online on the progress of his collaoration research on brachiopods with Dr. Minokawa and several students in the center that started in 2019 and on other protostomes.
June 21, 2023 An evacuation drill waas held in the center.
June 19-20, 2023 Dr. Kitazawa from Osaka Univ visited the center together with two other people to collect jellyfishes and other marine animals that they are working on for their research (Picture).
June 18, 2023 Kumano as a volunteer went and collected the water from mountain stream and river in the Hakkoda mountain area for eDNA analysis (Pictures 1, 2).
June 3-4, 2023 Morita-san, Iwasaki-san and Fukumori-san taught a marine biology course to local junior high school students.
June 1-2, 2023 Kumano (and the members of the Ecology group in the center) participated in a meeting held in Sendai with a group of people certified as a core group to promote Nature Positive in Japan.
May 9, 2023 All the lab members went out to eat Yakiniku.
May 8, 2023 Morita-san, Miyazawa-san and Kumano visited Nishino's lab in Hirosaki to learn about how to build a self-made electroporation equipment.
May 7, 2023 Kumano introduced his lab research projects in an online graduate school entarance examination event.
May 2, 2023 Takahashi-san and Kumano participated in an online meeting sharing the recent progress of the Cladonema pacificum genome project.
April 22, 2023 Morita-san participated in the lab introuction event for the graduate school entarance examination held in Sendai.
April 14, 2023 Kumano's lectures in Sendai for undergraduate students in Faculty of Biology have started.
April 9-11, 2023 Dr. Nishino from Hirosaki Univ and Kumano took a three-day trip by car to Osaka to pick up some research equipments that Dr. Nishida, our former boss in Osaka Univ, kindly handed over to us after his retirement.
March 25, 2023 The 2nd local collaborative learning event was held in the center where Kumano and Prof. Minokawa introduced biology of ascidians and sea urchins, respectively, to families in the local area (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
March 18, 2023 Kumano participated in the final lecture and retirement party for Prof. Hiroki Nishida (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
March 13, 2023 Mrs. Mikami, Atsumi, a fisherman from Ishinomaki, and Tanaka from NEC visited the center and we discussed progress in our collaboration for a reginoal revitalization program (Picture).
March 12-17, 2023 Morita-san with help of TAs, Kwamura-san and Takahashi-san, taught a marine biology course using Halocynthia embryos for 2nd grade students in Faculty of Biology, Tohoku University and for undergraduate students in other universities.
March 11, 2023 Kumano introduced Japanese Marine Stations in his presentation titled "History and Present of Marine Stations in Japan" in the 5th International JAMBIO symposium held at Chuo University in paralle with 34th IUBS General Assembly.
Feb 9, 2023 Miyazawa-san, Kawamura-san and Takahashi-san all successfully defended their master theses in the final exams held in Sendai (Picture).
Jan 27-29, 2023 Kumano taught a marine biology course using ascidians for three high school students from East Japan areas as part of "Exploing Germination and Growh Program for Young Scientists" program n Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
Jan 12-14, 2023 Prof. Araki from Iwate University and a student in his lab visited and stayed in the center to collect samples of Halocynthia embryos for RNA extraction.
Dec 16, 2022 Mr. Mikami, a local born Asamushiian and the representative of Asamushi Project "Awesome Sea" in the prefectural regional revitalization program "Next Aomori", and Kumano with others discussed possible collaboration.
Dec 15, 2022 Dr. Yoshiya Shimada from Institute for Environmental Sciences visited the center and discussed research conducted in the center using asdiians and sea urchins with some staff members.
Dec 13, 2022 Morita-san had a oral presentation on his research funded by the graduate school research grant in a grant award ceremony held remotely.
Dec 12-18, 2022 Prof. Nishida from Osaka University stayed for a week in the center to conduct research on ascidian gastrulation.
Dec 5, 2022 Nakamoto-san, the former assistant professor in the lab, visited the center and took some of the morning-type ascidians collected in Ushirogata.
Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2022 Takahashi-san participated in the 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan held in Makuhari, Chiba and had a poster presentation on her research project, germline development in jellyfish (abstract in Japanese).
Nov 15, 2022 Kumano had his research presentation on C. pacificum medusa tentacle branching formation in a meeting held in National Institute of Basic Biology within a joint usage research program for developing new model organisms (Picture 1).
Nov 9-11, 2022 A technical staff member Abe-san and Kumano went to Misaki Marine Biological Station of University of Tokyo to participate in the 47th annual training meeting for technical staff in marine stations (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Oct 28-29, 2022 Prof. Takatori from Tokyo Metropolitan University came and took some of the ascidians collected in Ushirogata home for his research.
Oct 27, 2022 Three members of the ascidian group in Kumano's lab, Miyazawa-san, Kawamura-san and Yamasaki-san, Abe-san, a technical staff member, and Kumano went to Ushirogata to buy morning-type ascidians from a local Fishermen's Cooperative (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Oct 26, 2022 Morita-san, Yamasaki-san, technical staff members Washio-san and Abe-san went out on a boat off the Kominato Fishing Port, and Washio-san dived into the sea to collect more than a hundred morning-type ascidians.
Oct 24-25, 2022 Iwasaki-san, two student members of her lab and Kumano participated in Tohoku University-OIST 3rd Joint Workshop on Biodiversity held in Sendai and presented their research projects (abstract).
Oct 22-23, 2022 Prof. Makino from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, and four student members of his lab visited the center to collect sea spiders for their research (Picture 1).
Sep 29-30, 2022 A lab seminar was held in which the members introduced the contents of the papers listed in "The imapct of Developmental Biology in the last 100 years" in the journal Developmental Biology.
Sep 20-23, 2022 A marine biology course for graduate students in Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, was held (Pictures 1, 2, 3). Lecturers were Drs. Takuro Itoh from Mt. Hakkoda Botanical Garden, Tohoku University, Takahiro Hirano from Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Takuya Minokawa and Kumano from the center.
Sep 18, 2022 Kumano taught a part of a marine biology course held in the center for students from Miyagi University of Education and also had a lecture on ascidian development.
Sep 7 -10, 2022 Kumano participated in Cnidofest 2022, a research meeting on cndiarian biology, held in Davis, California and had an oral presentation on his research project on medusa tentacle branch formation (abstract).
Aug 19, 2022 Annual Asamushi Center Management Committee was held online at the center.
Aug 15, 2022 Dr. Kenji Kikuchi from Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University, had an interdisciplinary lecture on biofluid mechanics during a marine biology course for 2nd grade students in Faculty of Biology, Tohoku University and students in other universities.
July 31, 2022 A regional networking event was held at the center (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
July 28, 2022 Morita-san and Fukumori-san participated in the Umitonippon (Sea and Japan) project by Japan Foundation as lecturers and their performance was broadcasted on local television.
July 23 -24, 2022 Kumano participated in a local Zoological Society Meeting of the Tohoku area held in Hirosaki.
July 11 -15, 2022 Morita-san (on site) and Kumano (on line) participated in 11th International Tunicate Meeting held in Kobe, Japan.
July 1 -7, 2022 We held Shinkishi Hatai International Marine Bioloby Course 2022 in the center, inviting two lecturers from abroad (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
June 28, 2022 Local fishermen took us offshore and helped us to hang Halocynthia roretzi juveniles in the sea (Pictures 1, 2).
June 23, 2022 The president of Tohoku University and others visited the center (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
June 10 -11, 2022 Iwasaki-san and Kumano participated in annual director meeting of Japan's Marine Stations held in Hiroshima.
June 6 -7, 2022 Kumano attended a scientific meeting on line and presented his work on branching morphogenesis in jellyfish.
May 31-June 3, 2022 Morita-san, Zhu-san, Miyazawa-san, Kawamura-san, Takahashi-san, Yamsaki-san and Kumano participated in 55th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists on site in Kanazawa.
May 7, 2022 Kumano participated in online orientation for entarance examination in the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University.
April 26, 2022 Prof. Nishino from Hirosaki University and two students from his lab visited the center and learned the subculturing system of the jellyfish Cladonema pacificum running in the lab.
April 15, 2022 Kumano taught lectures for undergraduate students in Faculty of Biology, Tohoku University, in this semestar on site after two-year online performances.
March 14-19, 2022 We taught a marine biology course using Halocynthia embryos for 2nd grade students in Faculty of Biology, Tohoku University and for undergraduate students in other universities (Pictures 1, 2).
March 12, 2022 Research presentation of "Exploing Germination and Growh Program for Young Scientists" in Tohoku University was held online. The presentation by the three local high school students that Kumano guided won the first prize.
March 10, 2022 Yamasaki-san had an online presentation on her ascidian research project for bachelor graduation (Abstract in Japanese).
Feb 21, 2022 We welcomed Mr. Inoue from the Asamushi neighbourhood in the center and discussed future collaborative events between the neighbourhood and the center.
Jan 8-10, 2022 Kumano held a marine biology course using ascidians for three local high school students as part of "Exploing Germination and Growh Program for Young Scientists" in Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Jan 6, 2022 Kumano participated in a new year party organized by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Jan 5, 2022 Hou's paper has been recommended in Faculty Opinions (fomer Facluty of 1000) as being of special significance in the field.
Dec 20-21, 2021 Kumano attended a scientific meeting in Kyoto and presented his work on jellyfish.
Dec 3, 2021 Profs Satoru Kobayashi from Tsukuba University and Kazuya Kobayashi from Hirosaki university visited the center to see the new comer Morita-san.
Nov 10, 2021 The Memebers page has been updated.
Nov 8, 2021 Prof. Takatori from Tokyo Metropolitan University visited the center to retrieve ascidians.
Nov 4-5, 2021 Kumano attended a scientific meeting held in Kyoto and presented his work on medusa tentacle branching morphogenesis.
Oct 28, 2021 Iwasaki-san, Hashimoto-san, Kawamura-san, Abe-san and Kumano went to Ushirogata to purchase morning-type ascidians (Picture 1).
Oct 26, 2021 Hou-san's paper has been accepted in Development. Congratulations!
Oct 26, 2021 Eight 4th-grade students from a local elementary school visited the center as a school escursion. Kumano showed them around the center.
Oct 19-21, 2021 Prof. Makino and three students in his lab from the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, visited the center to collect sea spiders.
Oct 4, 2021 A new assistant professor, Dr. Shumpei Morita, has arrived at the Asamushi center.
Sep 2-4, 2021 Kumano participated in the 92th Annual Zoological Society Meeting online and gave a poster presentation (abstract).
August 12-13, 19-20, 2021 We held marine biology courses in the center for 1st grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
July 10, 2021 Nakamoto-san came to visit the center.
June 21, 2021 Hou-san left Asamushi for his post-doc research back in China.
June 17-18, 2021 Hou-san, Takahashi-san and Kumano participated in 54th Annual Meetings of Japan Society of Developmental Bioloists online and Hou-san gave oral presentation on 17th (abstract).
April 16, 2021 Local fishermen took us offshore and helped us to culture Halocynthia roretzi juveniles into adults in the sea (Picture 1).
April 12, 2021 The Members page has been updated.
April 6, 2021 Another new graduate student, Kawamura-san, arrived at the center to study on ascidian in the lab.
March 31, 2021 Nakamoto-san got an associate professor position in Aomori University and left the lab.
March 31, 2021 Shibata-san transfererd to Kitasato University to study veterinary medicine and left the lab.
March 27, 2021 Yamaguchi-san graduated from the Graduate School and left Asamushi.
March 26, 2021 A new graduate student, Takahashi-san, arrived at the center to study on jellyfish in the lab.
March 22-27, 2021 We had a marine biology course for 2nd grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University and undergraduate students in other universities together (Picture 1).
Feb 4, 2021 Yamaguchi-san presented his master reserch study for graduation.
Feb, 2-5, 2021 Prof Sekiguchi from Noto Marine Laboratory, Kanagawa University visited the center for sampling of Halocynthia roretzi tissues.
Feb 1, 2021 Kumano participated in an online symposium "JSDB/APDBN symposium, RNA, Stem Cells, and Technology in Development".
Jan 29, 2021 Hou-san defended for his PhD and presented his doctoral research works in the Graduate School.
Jan 6, 2021 A new undergraduate student, Yamasaki-san, arrived at the center to study on marine animals for her undergraduate lab work.
Jan, 4-12, 2021 Prof Sawada from Kinjo Gakuin University and one of his students visited the center to conduct research on Halocynthia roretzi fertilization.
Nov 28-Dec 2, 2020 We held a marine biology course for a 3rd grade student in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Picture 1).
Nov 2, 2020 Prof Nishida gave a research seminar in the center. The title of his talk was "Developmental process of germline during embryogenesis in Oikopleura dioica.
Nov 2, 2020 Nakamoto-san, Yamaguchi-san, Abe-san and Kumano together with Prof Nishida from Osaka Univ went to Ushirogata to purchase morning-type ascidians.
Oct 30-31, 2020 We had the 5th ascidian forum (biennial research meeting for Japanese tunicate researchers) on line, which was organized by Dr. Hotta in Keio University.
Oct 19, 2020 Nakamoto-san, Hashimoto-san, Kumano and techinicians Washio-san and Abe-san went to Kominato to collect Morning-type ascidians. Washio-san dived into the sea for more than a hundred wild ascidians.
Oct 16, 2020 Ten 4th-grade students from a local elementary school visited the center as a school escursion. Kumano showed them around in the center.
Sep 24-27, 2020 We had an intensive marine biology course for graduate students of the Graduate School (Pictures 1, 2, 3). Profs Chiba from Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Itoh from Mt. Hakkoda Botanical Garden, Minokawa and Kumano taught the course.
Aug, 30 - Sep 1, 2020 We held a marine biology course in the center for 1st-grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Picture 1). We accepted only a limitted number of students due to coronavirus.
June, 16, 2020 Dr. Takuro Ito from Mt. Hakkoda Botanical Garden, Tohoku Univ. visited the center.
April, 8, 2020 The Members page has been updated.
April, 8, 2020 Tao-san left Asamushi back for his country.
March, 27, 2020 Hou-san and Shibata-san together with Okuizumi-san and Takenak-san from Asamushi Aquarium went out for jellyfishes on boat and caught several Spirocodon saltator. They are now displayed in Asamushi Aquarium (Picture 1).
March, 16, 2020 Marine biology courses have been cancelled due to the corna virus.
March, 11, 2020 A new PhD course student, Hashimoto-san, arrived at the center.
March, 10, 2020 Shibata-san's presentation for her graduation has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
March, 3, 2020 Nakamoto-san's paper has been accepted in the online journal iScience.
Feb, 27, 2020 Profs. Ishii and Kikuchi at Biological Flow Studies Lab in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University visited the center.
Jan, 27, 2020 Kumano visited Prof. Kenji Kikuchi at Biological Flow Studies Lab in Tohoku University.
Jan, 17, 2020 Lab members and Tokanai-san had a new year party near the Aomori station (Pictures 1, 2).
Jan, 8, 2020 Kumano went to the new year party organized by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Dec, 29, 2019 Tao-san's paper has been accepted in the journal Dev Biol.
Dec, 27, 2019 Hou-san, Zhu-san and Tokanai-san together with Okuizumi-san from Asamushi Aquarium went out on the boat to collect jellyfishes (Picture 1).
Dec, 25, 2019 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san and Kumano went for a drink to celebrate Tao-san's earning PhD (Picture 1).
Dec, 10, 2019 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Zhu-san, Yamaguchi-san, Shibata-san and Kumano went to Kugurizaka to purchase noon-type ascidians (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 5, 2019 We have started samping sea water for envinronmental DNA analysis (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 3-9, 2019 Prof. Tanimoto from Graduate School of Life Sciences visited Asamushi center. Prof. Tanimoto and Kumano went to Hakkoda mountains in snow and spent one night in an escape cottage up there (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
Nov 29, 2019 Kumano participated in 6th JAMBIO Forum in Tokyo.
Nov 24, 2019 Okuizumi-san from Asamushi Acquarium together with Hou-san, Zhu-san, Shibata-san, Numakunai-san and Kumano went out on the boat to collect jellyfishes around Asamushi (Pictures 1, 2).
Nov 15, 2019 We had a welcome party for the new undergraduate students, Miyazawa-san and Tokanai-san, in the Aomori central city (Pictures 1, 2).
Nov 8, 2019 The Members page has been updated.
Nov 7, 2019 Okuizumi-san from Asamushi Aquarium visited the lab and we exchanged information on jellyfishes.
Nov 1, 2019 Kumano had an oral presentation in the jellyfish forum organized by the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku Univ.
Oct 31, 2019 Prof. Nishino from Hirosaki Univ and Kumano visited Shibazaki-san, a fisherman in Noheji, and discussed a possible joint project regarding ascidian farming.
Oct 29, 2019 Together wiwth Numakunai-san and Prof. Nishida, all the memebers of Prof. Minokawa's and Kumano's labs went to the center of Aomori city for drink (Movie).
Oct 28, 2019 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Yamaguchi-san, Shibata-san, Miyazawa-san, Kumano, and Profs. Nishida from Osaka Univ. and Takatori from Tokyo Metaropolitan Univ. and his students went to Ushirogata and bought Morning-type ascidians.
Oct 21, 2019 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Shibata-san, Tokanai-san, Kumano and techinicians Washio-san and Abe-san went to Kominato to collect Morning-type ascidians. This time Abe-san dived into the sea and collected more than a hundred wild ascidians (Pictures 1, 2).
Oct 12, 2019 Nakamoro-san, Hou-san, Zhu-san, Shibata-san, Kumano and Tokanai-san, a new undegraduate student in Prof. Minokwa's lab, visited Asamushi Aquarium, where Okuizumi-san, a jellyfish keeper, showed us around many spots including one where she keeps jellyfishes in the back-yard (Pitures 1, 2).
Oct 1, 2019 Hou-san, Zhu-san, Yamaguchi-san, Shibata-san, Miyazawa-san and Kumano went to Hakkoda mountains in reds and yellows of leaves (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Sep 27-30, 2019 We had an intensive marine biology course for graduate students in the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku Univ. in Asamushi (Pictures 1, 2). Profs Chiba from Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Minokawa and Kumano taught the course.
Sep 26, 2019 Miyazawa-san, a new undergraduate student in the lab, arrived at Asamushi.
Sep 22, 2019 We had a party to celebrate Tao-san's and Shibata-san's sucess in his doctoral defence and her entrance exam for graduate school, respectively (Picture).
Sep 20, 2019 Prof Tamura from Tohoku Univ., members of his lab and Kumano visited Asamushi Aquarium to discuss a possible joint project with Red gurnard.
Sep 16-17, 2019 We had a joit summer seminar with members of Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University and read two papers together (Papers 1, 2, Pictures 1, 2, 3)
Sep 2, 2019 Tao-san went to Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University for their collaborative research on Oikopleura.
August 30-31, 2019 We had the 3rd Evo-Cello Retreat@Asamushi in the center. Participants were Profs. Tamura, Kyozuka, Kuranaga, Tanaka, Makino, Nagata, Kondoh, Ishikawa and Kumano from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University.
August 27-29, 2019 We had a marine biology course in the Center for the 1st-grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
August 20-25, 2019 We held "Interactive Short Course for Marine Biology" in the center. This course brought together small gorups of Japanese and international students to learn together basic marine biology and was organized through a collaboration between Profs. Martin Robert from IEHE, Tohoku University, Ian Gleadall from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Yasuyuki Matsuda from the University of Tokyo, Nakamoto-san and Kumano (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, article).
August 6, 2019 Tao-san had his doctoral defence in Sendai and passed the exam (Pictures 1, 2).
July 25, 2019 We had a celebration party for the success of the course in a restaurant called "A-FACTORY" near Aomori station (Picture 1).
July 18-24, 2019 We held Shinkishi Hatai International Marine Biology Course 2019 with 8 students participating: 1 from Europe, 5 from East asia, 1 from West asia and 1 from Japan. We invited Dr. Hiroaki Nakano from Shimoda Marine Research Center as a keynote lecturer, and Drs. Reinhardt Kristensen from University of Copenhagen and Alex McDougall as course instructors (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, article).
July 14, 2019 Dr. Alex McDougall from Villefranche marine station, France, arrived at the Asamushi center for his collaborative research with Nakamoto-san and his role as a course instructor in the coming international marine biology course.
June 26, 2019 Yamaguchi-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano went to see fisheman Kudoh-san in the Hamago fishing port and he showed us his farming ascidians (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
June 25, 2019 Kumano participated in annual director meeting of Japan's Marine Stations held in University of Tokyo.
May 22, 2019 The page Members has been updated.
May 21, 2019 Staff members and students of the Asamushi center took an AED course.
May 14-17, 2019 Tao-san and Kumano participated in 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists held in Osaka. Tao-san presented his research project on germline development in his oral and poster presentations.
May 7, 2019 We had a welcome party for Yamaguchi-san in the central area of Aomori city.
April 5-6, 2019 Kumano went to Akiu hotspring for the orientation seminar in Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, and introduced the Asamushi center to fresh students in Department of Biology.
March 26, 2019 Yamaguchi-san, a new master course student, arrived at Asamushi Center.
March 23, 2019 We had a farewell party for Negishi-san in the Aomori city center (Pictures 1, 2).
March 18-23, 2019 Nakamoto-san and Kumano taught a marine biology course in Asamushi Center for the 2nd-grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2).
March 14, 2019 The first Jellyfish paper from Kumano's lab has been published on line in Zoological Letters. This study was carried out mainly by Fujiki-san.
Jan 18, 25, 2019 Tao-san and Shu-san went back to China to celebrate Spring Festival with their families.
Jan 11, 2019 We had a new year party at the center (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 26, 2018 Kumano got interviewed by an elementary school student for an artile in a local children's newspaper (Article).
Dec 24, 2018 Tao-san, Hou-san, Shu-san and Kumano went to play in an amusement arcade and eat Yakiniku (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 4, 2018 The "members" page has been updated.
Dec 4, 2018 We went to Nonai to purchase 1,300 noon type ascidian adults (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Nov 23-25, 2018 Kumano participated in JSDB Autumn Symposium 2018 and had an oral presentation on our jellyfish project.
Nov 21, 2018 Zhu-san took an entrance exam. in Senadai to start his master course in the Graduate School from next April and got accepted (Picture).
Oct 31, 2018 We went to have a drink with Nishida-san from Osaka University (Pictures 1, 2).
Oct 30, 2018 We went to Ushirogata to purchase morning type ascidian adults (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Oct 22-Nov 2, 2018 Vlad, a post-doc from Deguchi's lab in Miyagi University of Education, visited Asamushi to learn how to do in situ hybridization and Ca2+ imaging on the jellyfish, Cladonema pacificum.
Oct 19, 2018 We went to Aomori city and had a welcome party for Zhu-san and Shibata-san (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Oct 4-5, 2018 Kumano organized the 4th Hoya (ascidian) research meeting in Sendai. Nakamoto-san and Tao-san had oral presentations on their research projects (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Oct 1, 2018 Shibata-san, a new undergraduate student from Departemnt of Biology, Tohoku Univ, started her research life here.
Sep 27-30, 2018 A new intensive course for graduate students in the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku Univ. was held in Asamushi and Hakkoda. Profs Chiba from Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Maki from Botanical Gardens, Minokawa and Kumano from Asamushi taught the course (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Sep 19-20, 2018 We had a joit summer seminar with the members of Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University and read two papers together (Papers 1, 2; Pictures 1, 2, 3). Dr. Nishide from Jin-ai University, Fukui, also joined the seminar.
Sep 18, 2018 Mr. Zhu Jianrong, who will be a research student in the lab starting in the next month, arrived at Asamushi.
Sep 5-7, 2018 Nakamoto-san and Kumano taught a marine biology course in the Center for the 1st-grade students in Fuculty of Biology, Tohoku University (Picture).
August 21-26, 2018 We held an introductory seminar course entitled "Interactive Short Course for Marine Biology" in the Asamushi center. This course brought together small gorups of Japanese and international students to learn together basic marine biology and was organized through a collaboration between Profs. Martin Robert from IEHE, Tohoku University, Ian Gleadall from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Nakamoto-san, Kumano and Yasuyuki Matsuda from the University of Tokyo (Article, Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Aug 6, 2018 Alex, Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Negishi-san with his family and Kumano went to see Nebuta Festival (Pictures 1, 2).
Aug 4-5, 2018 We hosted the 2nd Evo-Cello Retreat@Asamushi in the center with Profs. Tamura, Sugimoto, Kyozuka, Kuranaga, Tanaka and Makino from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, participating (Picture 1).
Aug 1, 2018 We had fireworks in Asamushi (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
July 27, 2018 Alex, Tao-san, Hou-san, Negishi-san and Kumano climbed Hakkoda mountains (Picture 1).
July 23, 2018 Dr. Alex McDougall from Villefranche-sur-mer marie biologial station arrived at the Asamushi center to conduct our collaborative projects and will stay here until Aug 12th.
July 23, 2018 We held an annual Asamushi center management committee in the Asamushi center.
July 21-22, 2018 Kumano participated in an annual Tohoku branch meeting of Zoological Society of Japan in Yamagata.
June 29, 2018 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Negishi-san and Kumano had a farewell party for Miyaoku-san in the cener of Aomori city (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
June 13, 2018 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Numakunai-san, Negishi-san and Kumano had a party and celebrated the acceptance of Miyaoku-san's research paper and the success in her doctoral thesis defence in the center of Aomori city.
June 6-8, 2018 Kumano participated in Joint Annual Meeting of JSDB 51st and JSCB 70th and presented his research on branching morphogenesis of medusa tentacles of a jellyfish species.
May 31, 2018 Kumano participated in a director meeting of Japan's Marine Stations held in Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Nagoya Univesrsity.
May 25, 2018 Kumano presented recent progress in his group's jellyfish reserch in a Jellyfish meeting at Sendai. The Prof. Tanimoto's and Prof. Nakashima's groups in Tohoku University and Prof Deguchi's group in Miyagi University of Education participated.
May 22, 2018 The staff members and students in Asamushi Center took a two-hour AED course.
May 19, 2018 Nakamoto-san introduced the labs in Asamushi Center in the orientation session of our graduate school entrance examination in Sendai.
May 14, 2018 Miyaoku-san defended her doctoral thesis in Osaka.
May 2, 2018 The "Research" page has been updated.
April 20, 2018 Miyaoku-san's paper has been accepted. Congratulations!
April 6-7, 2018 Kumano participated in an orientation seminar for fresh studens in Department of Biology, which was held in Akiu hotspring, and introduced the Asamushi center to the students.
April 4, 2018 A large scale shore protection construction around the center has begun.
March 29, 2018 Miyaoku-san, Tao-san and Kumano attended an international symposium "Germness and Pluripotency of the Planarians in comparison with the Fly and Mouse Systems" held in Hirosaki.
March 19, 2018 A book chapter "Microinjection of exogenous DNA into eggs of Halocynthia roretzi" by Kumano has been released.
March 16, 2018 Fujiki-san left the center for good (Pictures 1, 2).
March 15, 2018 We had a farewell party for Fujiki-san in Aomori city (Picture 1).
March 13, 2018 Miyaoku-san left for Osaka University to give an annual presentation on her PhD research.
March 9, 2018 Assoc. Prof. Kyozuka gave his final lecture on the Katahira campus in Sendai and talked about his research history in Asamushi for the past 40 years.
March 1-6, 2018 We taught a marine biology course for 2nd grade students in Department of Biology, Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Feb 27, 2018 Kumano went to Sapporo to attend a committee meeting concerning the activity of the marine stations in Hokkaido University.
Feb 19-20, 2018 Drs. Martin Robert from Institute for Excellence in Higher Education and Ian Gleadall from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Universtiy, visited the center for discussion on our educaional collaboration involving international students. Martin, Ian, Nakamoto-san, Tao and Kumano had dinner together at one of the Ryokans in Asamushi, Yanagi-no-yu.
Feb 17, 2018 Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Fujiki-san and Kumano went to Oirase-Keiryu (a mountain stream) for sight seeing (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Feb 7, 2018 Fujiki-san had an oral presentation for her master thesis entitled "Branching morphogenesis of tentacles of the jellyfish, Cladonema pacificum" in Sendai (Picture 1).
Jan 29, 2018 Tao-san went to Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University to collect Oikopleura embryos.
Jan 22-24, 2018 Tao-san and Kumano went to Tsurumi to attend a research meeting on Mechanisms Regulating Gamete Formation in Animals (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas). Tao-san had oral presentation on his recent research results (Picture 1).
Jan 9, 2018 Nakamoto-san and Kumano participated in the new year party organized by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Dec 28, 2017 The lab memebers had group photos taken (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 24, 2017 Tao-san, Hou-san and Kumano went to a BBQ restaurant Yakiniku in the center of Aomori city (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 16, 2017 Kumano went to Osaka to participate in a 60th birthday celebration for Prof. Nishida in Osaka University (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 11, 2017 Fujiki-san went to Sendai and gave her research presentation in the Inter-lab Seminar.
Dec 11, 2017 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Abe-san and Kumano from Asamushi and Nishino-san and Junko-san from Hirosaki Univ. went together to Noheji and bought noon-type ascidian adults from a local fisherman Shibazaki-san.
Dec 7, 2017 Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Fujiki-san, Negishi-san, Washio-san, Abe-san and Kumano went to Nonai and purchased more than 1,000 adults of noon-type ascidians from a local fisherman Yokouchi-san for the coming spawning season (Picture 1).
Nov 11, 2017 Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Fujiki-san, Negishi-san and Kumano had a dinner party at the center.
Nov 9, 2017 We had a fire drill at the center.
Oct 27, 2017 We had a welcome party for Hou-san in Aomori city (Picture 1).
Oct 27, 2017 All the lab. members and technical staff memebers Washio-san and Abe-san went to Kominato to collect morning-type ascidian adults. Washio-san dived into the sea water and caught about 110 adults for us (Pictures 1, 2).
Oct 23, 2017 Nakamoto-san and Tao-san gave their research presentation at the Inter-lab Seminar in Sendai.
Oct 21, 2017 We held a seminar event to celebrate Dr. Kyozuka's retirement in March.
Oct 20, 2017 Dr. Momose from Villefranche-sur-Mer marine station visited the center and had his research seminar on jellyfish early development. After the seminar, Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Numakunai-san, Nishida-san from Osaka Univ. and Kumano went out for dinner with Momose-san.
Oct 18, 2017 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san, Hou-san, Kumano and a techincal staff Abe-san went to Ushirogata to purchase morning-type ascidian adults (Picture 1).
Oct 15, 2017 Tao-san returned from his vacation.
Oct 11, 2017 The Members page has been updated.
Oct 10, 2017 Kumano gave a trial lecture on developmental biology to high school students in Fukuoka High School in Iwate.
Sep 30, 2017 Tao-san left Japan for his vacation to spend with his family in China.
Sep 30, 2017 Dr. Nakamoto introduced our lab activity in the orientation session for the graduate school entrance examination in Sendai.
Sep 28-29, 2017 We had a joit summer seminar with the members of Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University and read two review articles (Articles 1, 2; Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
Sep 27, 2017 Hou-san, a new international student from China, arrived at the Aomori airport to work with us in the lab. as a PhD course student.
Sep 21-23, 2017 Nakamoto-san and Kumano participated in the 88th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan held at Toyama, and Nakamoto-san had poster presentation.
Sep 14-15, 2017 Profs. Tamura, Sugimoto, Kyozuka, Kuranaga and Tanaka from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Prof. Watanabe from Tsukuba University and Kumano held the 1st Evo-Cello Retreat@Asamushi in the center (Pictures 1, 2).
Sep 3-5, 2017 We had a marine biology course in the Center for the 1st-grade students in Department of Biology, Tohoku University.
August 29, 2017 The annual Asamushi center management committee was held in Asamushi.
August 17-22, 2017 We had an introductory seminar course entitled "Interactive Short Course for Marine Biology" in the Asamushi center. This course brought together small gorups of Japanese and international students to learn together basic marine biology and was organized through a collaboration between Profs. Martin Robert from IEHE, Tohoku University, Ian Gleadall from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Nakamoto-san, Kumano and Yasuyuki Matsuda from the University of Tokyo (Article, Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
August 5, 2017 Tao-san and Fujikisan went dancing around with special costumes in Aomori Nebuta Festival (Pictures 1, 2).
July 29-30, 2017 We hosted a Tohoku branch meeting of Zoological Society of Japan in Asamushi Research Center. Fujiki-san had an oral presentation.
July 26-28, 2017 Tao-san and Kumano attended "The International Research Symposium of Germ Cell Development in vivo and in vitro" held in Fukuoka. Kumano gave an oral presentation and Tao-san poster presentation.
July 17-21, 2017 Nakamoto-san and Tao-san participated in 9th Interenational Tunicate Meeting in New York. Tao-san had a poster presentation (Abstract, Pictures 1, 2).
July 13, 2017 Amro, Alex and Asamushi staff members went to "Beer Garaden" in the Aomori city for a post-course party.
July 5-13, 2017 Shinkishi Hatai International Marine Biology Course 2017 was held successfully in the Center. It started with a keynote lecture by Dr. Motonori Hoshi, an emeritus professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and was followed by basic and advanced courses taught by Drs. Katrine Worsaae from University of Copenhagen (meiobenthology), Amro Hamdoun from Scrips Institute of Oceanography (sea urchin), and Alex McDougall from Villefranche-sur-mer marine station (ascidian). (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
July 3, 2017 We came to an agreement that we will purchase noon-type Halocynthia adults for this coming spawning season from a new local fisherman Yokouchi-san.
June 28, 2017 Dr. Hidehiko Hashimoto from Chicago University visited the Asamushi Center and gave us his research seminar (Abstract, pictures 1, 2).
June 28, 2017 A new boat has arrived! We had a test ride (Pictures 1, 2).
June 19, 2017 Nakamoto-san and Kumano went to Sendai to hold an entrance examination for Mr. Hou Shiting, a potential PhD course student in our lab from this coming October.
June 7-8, 2017 Kumano went to Akkeshi Marine Station, Hokkaido, to participate in the director meeting of marine stations
June 5, 2017 We had a welcome BBQ party for Dr. Negishi and Ms. Funamizu (administration).
May 30, 2017 Center members participated in a fire drill at the center.
May 13, 20, 2017 Kumano (13th in Tokyo) and Nakamoto-san (20th in Sendai) introduced our lab activity to potential graduate students in the orientation session of the graduate school entrance examination.
May 10-13, 2017 Miyaoku-san, Fujiki-san and Kumano participated in 50th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biology@Tokyo. Miyaoku-san and Fujiki-san also visited a developmental biology-related exhibition held in National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, and that is sponsored by the Museum and the Society. A picture of the jellyfish Cladonema pacificum taken by Fujiki-san is being used in the exhibition.
April 7~, 2017 A new series of lectures "Marine Biology" by Kumano and Dr. Minokawa has begun for the third-year students in Department of Biology.
April 6, 2017 Kumano introduced the Asamushi center and its activity to new students in Department of Biology, Tohoku University, at an orientation session in Sendai.
April 3, 2017 Dr. Negishi has started working here in the Asamushi center as an assistant professor.
March 29, 2017 Tao-san went to Dr. Nishino's lab for Oikopleura embryos.
March 20-25, 2017 Nakamoto-san and Kumano taught a marine biology course for students in Department of Biology, Tohoku University (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4).
March 15-17, 2017 Kumano went to Tokyo Universtiy of Marine Science and Technology to attend a research meeting on Mechanisms Regulating Gamete Formation in Animals (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas) and presented our recent research results.
March 13, 2017 Kishi-san from Osaka University visited Asamushi. We went out for dinner after we saw a beautiful sunset in Asamushi.
March 8-9, 2017 Tao-san visitd Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University for his sampling of Oikopleura embyros.
Feb 27, 2017 Kumano went to Sendai and presented an annual progress report on our educational IEHE project with Dr. Martin Robert and others.
Feb 20-24, 2017 Tao-san visited Dr. Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University to collect Oikopleura embryos for his research project.
Feb 1, 2017 Drs. Martin Robert from Institute for Excellence in Higher Education,Ian Gleadall from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Nakamoto-san and Kumano had a meeting in Sendai to discuss our educaional collaboration involving international students.
Jan 25, 2017 Kumano received interviewed from Ms. Ohkusa from Natural Science about the Japanese ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi.
Jan 20, 2017 All the lab members enjoyed an oyster pot in a new year party. We also celebrated Kumano's birthday with a bear-shaped birthday cake.
Jan 6, 2017 Minokawa-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano participated in the new year party organized by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Dec 17, 2016 Kumano held a short biology course on Halocynthia to teachers in ranging from elementary to high schools of the Aomori prefecture.
Dec 9, 2016 Dr. Satoru Kobayashi from Tsukuba University visited the Asamushi center.
Dec 6-7, 2016 Kumano went to the director meeting of marine stations held in the Oki marine station on the Oki island of the Shimane prefecture.
Dec 6, 2016 All the lab members except Kumano, and a techical staff Washio-san went to Noheji to buy Noon-type ascidians (Pictures 1, 2).
Dec 1, 2016 The lab members celebrated Nakamoto-san's marriage (Pictures 1, 2). Congratulations!!!
Nov 14-19, 2016 Tao-san, Fujiki-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano participated in the joint meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87th Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan, which was held in Okinawa. Kumano orgnized a symposium "Mechanical regulation of morphogenetic processes in diversified animals" and gave a talk there, and Nakamoto-san and Fujiki-san had poster presentations (Abstracts 1, 2, 3, Pictures 1, 2). Fujikisan's presentation was the first presentation about our new jellyfish projects.
Nov 1, 2016 All the lab members and a technical staff Abe-san went to Ushirogata to buy Morning-type ascidians. We then went out for drinking near Aomori station with Nishida-san from Osaka University (Pictures 1, 2)
Oct 21, 28, 2016 We had an exhibition event in the center with some historical materials related to Dr. Shinkishi Hatai, the founder of this center, in collaboration with the Board of Education in Hiranai town, where Dr. Hatai was born.
Oct 25, 2016 Tao-san, Fujiki-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano went out on a boat near Kominato and had our technician dive into the sea for morning-type ascidians (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
Oct 21, 2016 Kumano gave a lecture on developmental biology education in high school and ascidian research to biology teachers in high schools of the Miyagi prefecture.
Oct 17, 2016 Tao-san and Dr. Nakamoto had research presentations in the inter-lab meeting in Sendai.
Oct 14-15, 2016 Dr. Nakamoto went to Osaka to participate in the 3rd Japanese Ascidian Meeting. We are going to host the 4th in two years.
Oct 6, 2016 Dr. Nakamoto collected some Ciona savignyi adults from scallop nets with a help of a local fisherman.
Sep 30, 2016 Kumano gave a special lecutre on ascidians in the 39th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanaese Society of Hypertension held in Sendai.
Sep 28-30, 2016 Miyaoku-san and Kumano participated in a meeting at Tsukuba on Mechanisms Regulating Gamete Formation in Animals and presented their research results.
Sep 24, 2016 Dr. Nakamoto taught a short marine biology course on Ciona savignyi to students in Miyagi University of Education.
Sep 20, 2016 Dr. Yoko Kato from Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku Gakuin University, visited the Asamushi center.
Sep 15, 2016 Fujiki-san and Kumano visited Dr. Deguchi's lab to learn how to inject jellyfish eggs.
Sep 12-13, 2016 We held a joint summer seminar with Dr. Nishino's lab members in Hirosaki and read a review paper.
Sep 8-10, 2016 We had a marine biology course in the Center for 1st-grade students in Department of Bioilogy, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University.
Sep 5-6, 2016 Tao-san and Kumano visited Dr. Nishino's lab at Hirosaki University to fix Appendicularian embryos. Kumano gave a research seminar on germline development in ascidians on 5th.
Sep 3, 2016 Tao-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano went to the Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium (Pictures 1, 2).
August 28-Sep 2, 2016 We had an introductory seminar course entitled "Interactive Short Course for Marine Biology" in the Asamushi center. This course brought together small gorups of Japanese and international students to learn together basic marine biology and was organized through a collaboration between Profs. Martin Robert from IEHE, Tohoku University, Ian Gleadall from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Nakamoto-san, Kumano and Yasuyuki Matsuda from the University of Tokyo (Article, Pictures 1, 2, 3).
August 16, 2016 Dr. Alex McDougall from Observatoire Oceanologique in Villefranche-sur-mer, France, arrived at the center to operate educational and research activities on a bivalve species and will stay until 26th.
August 10, 2016 Mr. Kudoh from a junior high school in Chiba prefecture visited Asamushi and explored a possibility of using Halocynthia for his lecture.
August 4, 2016 Tao-san, Fujiki-san, Kumano and others in the center were invited to dance around in the Nebuta festival (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
August 2, 2016 The annual Asamushi center steering committee was held in Asamushi.
July 23-24, 2016 Miyaoku-san went to and had an oral presentation on her research in an annual meeting organized by Tohoku Branch of the Zoological Society of Japan held in Fukushima.
July 13-19, 2016 Dr. Tanimoto from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, visited Asamsuhi and conducted his research on jellyfishes.
July 5, 2016 Fujiki-san and Kumano went together with Numakunai-san and students from Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University to collect jellyfishes in a Mutsu-bay area near Kominato-town.
June 30, 2016 The lab members had a BBQ party at the Center (Pictures 1, 2, 3).
June 28, 2016 Dr. Taku Hibino from Saitama University visited the Center and had his research seminar on sea urchin phagocytosis.
June 19, 2016 Tao-san came back from China.
June 9, 2016 As Chairman of the Shinkishi Hatai Medal Award Committee, Tohoku University,
Kumano made a speech about the awardee for 2016, Dr. Ching-Fong Chang,
President of National Taiwan Ocean University, at the 23rd Pacific Science
Congress held in Academia Sinica in Taiwan (Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4; article).
June 9, 2016 In a project to cultivate morning-type Halocynthia adults near Asamushi in collaboration with a local fisherman, we took out some of the juvenils on the ropes, which had been grown since last December in the aquarium of the Asamushi Center, into the sea for better conditions (Juveniles in the sea since last January; juveniles moved into the sea this time; ropes with juveniles hanging in the sea).
June 1, 2016 Tao-san left for China on his summer vacation.
May 28-29, 2016 Kumano participated in a research exchange meeting organized by Yamada Science Foundation and presented his recent research results.
May 21, 2016 Kumano went to Sendai to introduce the lab activity at the orientation of the graduate school entrance examination.
May 9, 2016 The "Members" page has been updated.
April 27, 2016 All the Kumano lab members (Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Fujiki-san, Kumano) went to Gappo Park in Aomori city and enjoyed beautiful night views of cherry blossoms (Pictures 1, 2).
April 25, 2016 We checked out baby ascidians (Morning type) we have been grwoing in the sea near the center in a farming project collaborated with a local fisherman.
April 15, 2016 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Tao-san and Kumano had a welcome party (Pictures 1, 2, 3, Movie 1) for Fujiki-san in the central area of Aomori city.
April 8-9, 2016 Kumano went to an orientation camp@Mt. Iwate-san for new students in Department of Biology, Tohoku University and introduced them about the Asamushi center.
April 1, 2016 Fujimoto-san started his new job in the center as an assistant professor appointed for our Joint Usage/Education Center activity.
April 1, 2016 A renewed 5-year term for the Asamushi center as a Joint Usage/Education Center, MEXT in Japan has started.
Mar 28, 2016 Fujiki-san, a new graduate student in Kumano lab., moved in Asamushi.
Mar 23-28, 2016 We organized a marine biology course on ascidian embryogenesis in the center for 2nd-grade students in Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University.
Mar 14, 2016 Omotezako-san from Nishida-san's lab in Osaka University visited Asamushi. Miyaoku-san and Kumano together with him went out for drink in the central area of Aomori city.
Mar 12, 2016 Miyaoku-san came back from Osaka.
Mar 8, 2016 Miyaoku-san left for Osaka University to speak at the anual research presentation in her PhD course.
Mar 2, 2016 Kumano went to Sendai and made an annual progress report on the recent collaborative activity with Dr. Martin Robert from IEHE concerning the development of a marine biology course with a micture of Japnese and international students.
Feb 23, 2016 Dr. Shonan Amemiya, an emeritus professor of Tokyo University, visited the Asamushi center and gave a research seminar on developmental biology of the Bourgueticrinida, Metacrinus rotundus.
Feb 9-10, 2016 Drs. Martin Robert from Institute for Excellence in Higher Education and Ian Gleadall from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Universtiy, visited the center for discussion on our educaional collaboration involving international students.
Feb 6, 2016 Kumano participated in Hatsu-uma Celemony organized by Asamushi Fire Department.
Jan 15, 2016 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Tao-san, Numakunai-san and Kumano had a new year party at 焼鳥Yamagami.
Jan 6, 2016 Nakamoto-san and Kumano participated in the New Year party organized by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Dec 22, 2015 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Tao-san and Kumano had a year-end and a celebration (for Tao-san's acceptance by the Graduate School) party.
Dec 18, 2015 Kumano participated in a research lecture on ascidians for elementary school students, which was organized by Katayama-san in Miyagi University of Education, in Kesen-numa city and later had a presentation about biology of ascidians.
Dec 15, 2015 Tao had a presentation and an interview in his entrance examination for his PhD course of the Graduate School, starting next April.
Dec 8, 2015 Kumano went to Sendai and introduced our lab activity to the students in Department of Biology.
Dec 2, 2015 Nakamoto-san, Tao-san and Kumano went to Noheji and purchased Noon-type ascidians from a local fisherman.
Nov 27, 2015 We had a welcome party (the second party; this time the people in the Asamushi center all together) for Tao-san at the center of the Aomori city.
Nov 16, 2015 Nakamoto-san had a research presentation in the inter-lab. meeting in Sendai.
Oct 26, 2015 Dr. Takashi Shimizu from Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University visited the Asamushi center and gave his research talk on embryognesis of the oligochaete annelid Tubifex.
Oct 26, 2015 Tao-san and Kumano went to Ushiro-gata and purchased Morning-type ascidians from a local fisherman.
Oct 22, 2015 Tao-san, Nakamoto-san and Kumano went out to sea on a boat near Kominato and had our technician dive into the sea and collect morning-type ascidians.
Oct 15, 2015 We had a kick-off meeting in Sendai for the renovation of the lodging facility in the Asamushi center.
Oct 8, 2015 We had an accounting audit of 8th International Tunicate Meeting and everything was finished. We had a party in Ryokan Yanagi-no-Yu afterward.
Oct 6, 2015 Dr. Chikara Hashimoto from JT Biohistory Research Hall visited the Asamushi center and gave his research talk on vertebrate gastrulation.
Oct 3, 2015 Kumano went to Sendai and introcuded about his lab. in an orientation session for the graduate school entrance examination.
Sep 28, 2015 The Members page has bee updated.
Sep 23-25, 2015 We had a marine biology course in the Center for 1st-grade students in Department of Bioilogy, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
Sep 17-19, 2015 Nakamoto-san and Kumano went to 86th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan@Niigata and Nakamoto-san gave a talk on his reserch results in his previous lab.
Sep 13, 2015 We had a welcome party for Tao.
Sep 12, 2015 A new international student from China, Tao Zheng, came to Asamushi to join our lab.
Sep 9-10, 2015 Kumano participated in a joint marine biology course as a lecturer in Mukai-shima marine station, Hiroshima.
Sep 3, 2015 We cleaned up the lab rooms and went out for dinner together.
August 23-27, 2015 We had a marine biology course in the Center for 1st-grade students in the general education course, Tohoku University.
August 19, 2015 A confocal microscopy kindly given by Prof. Iijima from Graduate School of Life Science was carried in.
August 16-19, 2015 Prof. Tanimoto from Graduate School of Life Science and his son visited and stayed in the Center.
August 10-12, 2015 We had a marine biology course in the Center for 2nd-grade students in Department of Bioilogy, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University.
August 3-9, 2015 Dr. Gaspar Jekely from Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology@Tubingen and his family visited and stayed in the Center. He gave his research talk on Platynereis larval locomotion on 4th. During their stay here, we went to Nebuta Festival and hiking in Hakkoda mountains.
July 30-August 2, 2015 Dr. Martin Robert from Institute for Excellence in Higer Educaion and Kumano together taught a marine biology course for international students in Tohoku University.
July 29, 2015 The annual Asamushi center steering committee was held in Sendai.
July 26, 2015 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san, Numakunai-san and Kumano had a party to celebrate the success of 8th ITM.
July 24, 2015 We had a welcome party for Chiba-san in Aomori City.
July 13-17, 2015 8th International Tunicate Meeting organized by the ascidian team in Asamushi and others was held in Aomori City. Kumano had an oral presentation and Nakamoto-san and Miyaoku-san had poster presentations.
June 18-25, 2015 International Marine Biology Course was held in the Asamushi center. 6 instructors (5 invited from abroad) and 15 students (from 10 different countries) participated (pictures 1, 2, 3).
June 15-18, 2015 An international meeting "Oocyte Maturation and Fertilization IV" was held in the Asamushi center.
June 11-12, 2015 Kumano went to the director meeting of marine stations in Aitsu Marine Station in Kumamoto.
June 2-5, 2015 Miyaoku-san and Kumano went to 48th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists in Tsukuba.
June 1, 2015 Chiba-san started working as an administrative staff in the center.
May 16, 2015 Kumano went to the orientation for graduate school entrance examinations held in Tokyo (16th) and Sendai (23rd) and introduced about his lab.
April 9-10, 2015 Dr. Martin Robert from Institute for Excellence in Higer Educaion, Tohoku University visited the center and discussed possible educational collaboration involving international students.
April 5-6, 2015 Kumano went to the orientation camp@Mt. Iwate-san for new students in Department of Biology and introduced the Asamushi center.
April 3, 2015 Registration and abstract submission have started for the upcoming 8th International Tunicate Meeting held in Aomori.
April 1, 2015 We are recruiting participants in International Marine Biology Course in Asamushi held in the center in June (deadline: April 30).
Mar 23-28, 2015 We taught a marine biology course on ascidian embryogenesis in the Center for 2nd-grade students in Department of Bioilogy, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
Mar 13, 2015 We had a farewell party in Aomori city.
Mar 13, 2015 Miyaoku-san came back from Osaka.
Mar 5, 2015 Kumano's review has been accepted in Dev Growth Differ.
Mar 5, 2015 Miyaoku-san left for Osaka University to speak at the anual research presentation in her PhD course.
Feb 10, 2015 Nakamoto-san's work in his former lab has been accepted in Nat Comm.
Feb 4-5, 2015 Nishino-san and Hunaki-san from Hirosaki University visited our lab and conducted an experiment with ascidians.
Jan 17, 2015 We had a new year party with Numakunai-san and Tanaka-san.
Jan 7, 2015 Kumano and Minokawa-san participated in the New Year party held by Asamushi Neighbourhood Association.
Dec 30, 2014 Kumano and Prof. Tanimoto went to Enoshima Aquarium to learn how to grow jellyfishes.
Dec 21, 2014 Kumano taught a mini ascidian biology course as an event of "Asamushi Aquarium Jr. Club" in the Center.
Dec 19, 2014 We had a year-end party in Aomori city.
Dec 14-15, 2014 Kumano went to Ishinomaki and enjoyed its local foods.
Dec 13, 2014 We held a forum "College Education and the Sea" in the Center.
Dec 11, 2014 We purchased C-type ascidians from Shibasaki-san @ Noheji and have all ascidians for this season ready in the Center.
Nov 14, 2014 Kumano went to Hirosaki for a seminar by Dr. Tanaka from Osaka University.
Nov 13, 2014 This year's spawning season has just started.
Nov 10, 2014 Miyaoku-san came back from Hirosaki.
Nov 10, 2014 Kumano had a research presentation in the inter-lab. meeting in Sendai.
Oct 27-31, 2014 Nishida-san visited the Center to purchase ascidians and we went out for drinking on 27th.
Oct 28, 2014 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san and Kumano visited Nishino's lab in Hirosaki University, and Kumano had a research seminar. Miyaoku-san will stay to conduct her research for several days.
Oct 25, 2014 Nakamoto-san and Kumano went and climbed to the Hakkoda mountains.
Oct 21, 24, 28, 2014 We purchased hundreds of A-type ascidians from fishermen for the coming spawning season.
Oct 13-14, 2014 Nakamoto-san and Miyaoku-san had their research presentations in a ascidian forum in Tokyo.
Oct 5-6, 2014 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san and Kumano went to Kamo-jellyfish aquarium and Yunohama hotspring in Yamagata prefecture for our first lab trip.
Sep 29, 2014 Miyaoku-san had a research presentation in the inter-lab. meeting in Sendai.
Sep 25-26, 2014 Kumano had a lecture in a marine biology course in Mukai-shima, Hiroshima.
Sep 17, 2014 The president of Tohoku University visited the center.
Sep 14-16, 2014 We hosted 1st International Interactive Seminar for Zoology in the center. Dr. Christian Sardet gave a seminar entitled "An exploration of world plankton: Tara expeditions and plankton chronicles".
Sep 10-13, 2014 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san and Kumano all went to 85th Annual Meeting for the Zoological Society of Japan in Sendai, and Kumano had a research presentation in a symposium.
Sep 1-3, 2014 Kumano organized 4th Summer Workshop by Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists in the center.
Aug 27-31, 2014 Prof. Tanimoto and others from Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, visited the Center.
Aug 12-14, 2014 We had a marine biology course in the Center for 2nd-grade students in Department of Bioilogy, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University.
July 31, 2014 Kumano had a lecture for the general public in the "Open Campus" event in Sendai.
July 19-21, 2014 Miyaoku-san went to a meeting held by "Community of young biologists around the sea" and had a presentation.
July 11, 2014 Numakunai-san had a seminar. The title of his talk was "A Tale of Halocynthia roretzi"
June 30, 2014 Nakamoto-san had a research presentation in the inter-lab. meeting in Sendai.
June 14, 2014 We had a organizing committee for 85th Annual Meeting for the Zoological Society of Japan in the center.
June 5-6, 2014 Kumano went to the director meeting for marine stations in Ushimado.
May 27-30, 2014 Miyaoku-san and Kumano went to 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists in Nagoya.
May 14, 2014 Nakamoto-san and Kumano took a training lecture for new employees in Sendai.
April 27, 2014 Nakamoto-san, Miyaoku-san and Kumano went to see the cherry blossoms in the central part of Aomori city and drove to the Hakkoda mountains.
April 24, 2014 Members in the center went to a nearby sports center to play badminton.
April 17, 2014 Prof. Inaba from Shimoda Marine Research Center visited the lab., and we had a talk about the upcoming 8th International Tunicate Meeting that we organize.
April 5, 2014 We had a welcome party for Nakamoto-san in Amotori city.
April 1, 2014 Nakamoto-san started his new job in the lab. as an assistant professor.
Mar 12, 2014 Kumano's original ariticle has been accepted in Dev Growth Differ.
Mar. 10, 2014 Miyaoku-san had an annual research presentation in Osaka Univ.
Feb. 17, 2014 Prof. Kim from Kangnung National University visited the lab.（～ Feb 20）。
Feb. 12, 2014 Dr. Jiang had a seminar. The title of his talk was "Actomyosin contraction-based mechanism of Ciona notochord development"
Feb. 2, 2014 Dr. Di Jiang from Sars International Center for Marine Molecular Biology visited the Center.（～ Mar 1）。
Jan 31, 2014 An original article co-authored by Kumano has been accepted in PLos One.
Jan 20, 2014 Miyaoku-san came back from Osaka.
Jan. 16, 2014 Kumano had a research presentation in 4th JAMBIO Forum in Hongo, Tokyo.
Dec 24, 2013 Miyaoku-san went to the Nisihida's lab. in Osaka Univ. to do some experiments.
Nov 18, 2013 Kumano had a resaerch presentation in 4th Autumn Meeting of Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists in Kobe.
Nov 15, 2013 The first Halocynthia spawning ever in the lab.
Nov 1, 2013 Kumano had a seminar in the Mochizuki's lab in RIKEN Wako.
Oct 19, 2013 Kumano and three other staff members in the Center had research presentation in Autumn mini-simposium in Asamushi.
Oct 12, 2013 Kumano had a presentation in the symposium "Katachi Festival 3" in JT Biohistory Resarch Hall.
Sep 28, 2013 Miyaoku-san had an oral presentation in the 84th Annual Meeting for the Zoological Society of Japan.
Sep 26, 2013 Kumano had a research presentation in the 84th Annual Meeting for the Zoological Society of Japan.
Sep 16, 2013 Ms. Kitazawa from the Fujimoto's lab in Osaka Univ. visited the lab.
Aug. 31, 2013 We had a welcome party for Miyaoku-san in Aomori city.
Aug. 21, 2013 Miyaoku-san joined the lab.
July 1, 2013 Kumano started a new lab in Asamushi Center.