５th JAMBIO International Symposium Symposium “Japanese Marine Station: History, current activity and international network” Date March 11th, 2023 13：30－17：30 Venue Chuo University 1-23-27 Kasuga Bunkyo 112-8551 JAPAN Program 13：30 Opening remarks Kazuo Inaba（Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba） 13：35 Activities of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) Kaoru Kubokawa（ACRO, Teikyo University） 13：45 […]
A special exhibition “Investigating Marine Life! -Introduction of JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey-” will be held at the Shirahama Aquarium, Kyoto University to display the results of the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey. Date: February 1st until May 14th → Click here for details → Click here for the exhibition
A research group led by Associate Professor Mas-aaki Yoshida of Shimane University’s Oki Marine Station has published their research result, “Success in decoding the whole genome of Argonaut, a mysterious octopus with a shell – New findings on the origin and evolution of the shell,” was published in the online edition of the international journal […]
The All Nippon eDNA Monitoring Network (ANEMONE), in which JAMBIO participates, has launched an open eDNA database of the ANEMONE Database (ANEMONE DB). A map of the fish fauna of all of Japan, covering 861 locations and 885 detected fish species on 2020, is now available. https://db.anemone.bio/ In addition, the ANEMONE Consortium was established on […]
Exploring the transport patterns of ocean currents under the Tsushima Warm Current in the Japan Sea is necessary to clarify the dynamics of material transport in the Japan Sea, especially environmental pollutants attached to PM2.5 and transported through the atmosphere and ocean. So far, we have conducted monthly monitoring to clarify radioisotope markers and pollutant […]
Focusing on herbivorous fish, which do not have stomachs, we investigated the types of bacteria living in their intestines. We discovered that they have many types of intestinal bacteria to break down the algae they use as food. We were also able to discover an interesting phenomenon: the Vibrio species of intestinal bacteria do not […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Mike Thorndyke on January 25, 2022. We would like to express our deepest condolences for the loss of Professor Thorndyke. Professor Thorndyke was director of the Kristineberg Marine Research Station on the west coast of Sweden for many years and greatly contributed to […]
A special issue of the scientific journal Zoological Science was published. In this issue, with a theme of ‘Diversity of Coastal Organisms Around Japan’, many discoveries from the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Surveys are reported, and more than 10 new species are described from the seas around Japan. Some of the papers in the special […]
A research group led by Associate Professor Hirotaka Sakamoto (Neuroendocrinology) of the Faculty of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, has discovered a neuropeptide homologous to a mammalian neuropeptide from marine flatworms and published their findings in a paper. An international research team including researchers from JAMBIO members; Ushimado (Okayama University), Noto (Kanazawa University) and […]
The Tara Ocean Foundation and the Jambio Network survey microplastic pollution in Japan’s coastal waters and conduct outreach events around Japan for the second year. After surveying the coastal waters around marine stations in West Japan, the team will be surveying waters in North East Japan. The objective of the surveys is to assess plastic […]