MISE past & present

2015.5

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RESEARCH THEMES:  Zoantharia, octocorals, echinoderms, coastal degradation, Symbiodinium, fire corals, corals, snail worms, sea anemones, amphipods, sponges, phylogenetics, phylogenomics & biodiversity, nudibranchs, Waminoa.

Current MISE Members

  1. 1.Dr. James Reimer Associate Professor

  2. 2.Dr. Masami Obuchi JSPS Project Assistant Professor

  3. 3.Dr. Doris Albinsky Researcher

  4. 4.Dr. Julien Lorion JST/JICA Post-doctoral Fellow

  5. 5.Dr. John Parkinson JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow

  6. 6.Dr. David Weinstein JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow

  7. 7.Dr. Satoe Aratake OIST  - Visiting Researcher

  8. 8.Dr. Taha Soliman OIST  - Visiting Researcher

  9. 9.Dr. Tomoko Yamazaki OIST - Visiting Researcher

  10. 10.Yu Miyazaki PhD candidate - 3rd year

  11. 11.Javier Montenegro PhD candidate - 3rd year

  12. 12. Ty McLelland PhD candidate - 2nd year

  13. 13. Masaru Mizuyama PhD candidate - 2nd year

  14. 14. Iori Kawamura PhD candidate - 2nd year

  15. 15. Arezoo Mottaghi PhD candidate - 1st year

  16. 16. Shiori Kunihiro PhD candidate - 1st year

  17. 17. Maria Eduarda Alves Dos Santos - Research student

  18. 18. Victor Nestor Master’s student - 2nd year

  19. 19. Taku Ohara Master’s student - 2nd year

  20. 20. Jessica Gordon Master’s student - 1st year

  21. 21. Courtney Timmons Master’s student - 1st year

  22. 22. Hiroki Kise Master’s student - 1st year

  23. 23. Kristen Soong - Research student

  24. 24. Hatsuko Noda Undergraduate student - 4th year

  25. 25. Toshiki Kubomura Undergraduate - 4th year

  26. 26. Yuka Kushida Undergraduate - 4th year

  27. 27. Kaketo Sakaguchi Undergraduate - 4th year

  28. 28. Kengo Kyan Undergraduate - 4th year

  29. 29. Takehiro Maeda Undergraduate - 4th year

Former MISE members

  1. 1.Eriko Shiroma Undergraduate student, 2007-2009.

  2. 2.Dr. Frederic Sinniger JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow; 2007-2009 - now at Sesoko Marine Station.

  3. 3.Marie Higa Undergraduate student - 2008-2010.

  4. 4.Youhei Sakamoto Undergraduate student - 2008-2010.

  5. 5.Dr. Mamiko Hirose Short-term post-doctoral researcher; Nov. 2009-Mar. 2010) - now Assistant Professor at Ochanomizu University.

  6. 6.Anna Maria Addamo Short-term doctoral student; Mar-May 2010) - now at the National Museum, Madrid, Spain.

  7. 7.Catalina Aguilar Master’s student - 2008-2010 - now PhD candidate at James Cook University (Australia).

  8. 8.Minaho Kamezaki Undergraduate student - 2009-2011.

  9. 9.Yuya Hibino Undergraduate & Master’s student - 2008-2012.

  10. 10.Megumi Nakano Undergraduate student - 2010-2012.

  11. 11. Dr. Kristine White JSPS post-doctoral fellow - 2009-2011, now Assistant Professor at University of Tampa.

  12. 12. Yuka Irei Undergraduate & Masters student, 2007-2013.

  13. 13.  Carey Ashworth Masters student, 2011-2013.

  14. 14. Drew Wham Short-term NSF-EAPSI PhD student; summer 2011, now at Penn State.

  15. 15. Haruka Shikiba Undergraduate & Master’s student, 2009-2013.

  16. 16.  Toru Nishimura Undergraduate student, 2009-2013.

  17. 17. Dr. Iria Fernandez Silva JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow, 2013. Now at California Academy of Science with Dr. Luiz Rocha.

  18. 18.Dr. Sung-yin Yang PhD Candidate, 2011-2014. Now at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology with Dr. Holger Jenke-Kodama.

  19. 19. Satoko Nasu Undergraduate student - 2011-2014.

  20. 20. Yu Fujiwara Undergraduate student - 2012-2014.

  21. 21. Gordon Byron Visiting research student from Dalhousie, 2014.

  22. 22. Dr. Takuma Fujii Undergraduate, Master’s, PhD student, post-doctoral fellow, 2007-2015  - now Assistant Professor at Kagoshima University.

  23. 23. Erina Kawai Undergraduate & Master’s student, 2010-2015, now at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology with Dr. Holger Jenke-Kodama

  24. 24. Okuto Takama Undergraduate & Master’s student, 2009-2015.

  25. 25. Masashi Yomogida Undergraduate student - 2012-2015.