Members in Aquatic Invertebrates Research Group
Staff
Kaori Wakabayashi (Associate Professor)
Email: kaoriw (at) hiroshima-u.ac.jp
My interests are in the life history and its evolutionary patterns of marine
invertebrates. Current main research projects are to develop (1) a technique for
sustainable seed production of slipper lobsters and (2) a technique for land-based
production of sea urchin roe.
Home country: Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture
Favorite aquatic animals: Astropecten latesponisus (sea-star), Ibacus novemdentatus (slipper lobster), Cavolinia uncinata (pelagic snail), etc.
Hobby: travel
Interview: Interview with professors
PD Researcher
Alyaa Elsaid Abdelaziz Fadl
Home country: Egypt
Favorite aquatic animals: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (sea urchin), Squilla spp. (mantis shrimp), lobsters, shrimps
Hobby：travelling, reading
Research interests：life history, developmental biology, functional genomics, metamorphosis, and aquaculture of marine invertebrates
Students
Mohamed Al Wahaibi （Doctoral）
Home country: Sultanate of Oman
Favorite aquatic animals: sea urchin, sea-star, jellyfish, nudibranch, spiny lobsters, shrimps
Hobby：football, mountain climbing, travelling, reading
Research project：Unusual Aggregation of jellyfish in the Seto Inland Sea: is there a relation to high resistance to hypoxia?
Mikito Inoue (Master)
Home country: Mie
Favorite aquatic animals: jack mackerel
Hobby: fishing
Research project: High-quality roe of Heliocidaris crassispina can be produced by using an appropriate feeding regime regardless of sea urchin age
Newspaper article
Akari Yoshimoto (Master)
Home country: Ehime
Favorite aquatic animals: jellyfish, giant isopod
Hobby: board games
Research project: Taxonomy of Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Thecostraca: Ascothoracida) infecting sea-stars Research Paper
Hiroaki Shigemori (Master)
Home country: Chiba
Favorite aquatic animals: blunt slipper lobster, olive flounder
Hobby: scuba diving, travel
Research project: Studies on the nutritional requirements for growth of achelate larvae
Kenta Suzuki (Master)
Home country: Kyoto
Favorite aquatic animals: aucha perch, cory catfish
Hobby: photography, riding motorcycle
Research project: Phototactic response to different light intensities in phyllosoma larvae of two species of genus Ibacus (Achelata: Scyllaridae)
Hiroki Nakajima （Undergraduate）
Home country: Hiroshima
Favorite aquatic animals: dolphin, jellyfish
Hobby：football, travel
Research project：Ecological factors inducing the gregarious settlement of planula larvae of Aurelia coerulea
Chiho Hidaka （Undergraduate）
Home country: Hiroshima
Favorite aquatic animals: penguin
Hobby：manga, watching anime
Research project：The true identity of a scyllarid nisto larva obtained in the Ogasawara Islands: Based on DNA analysis and morphological observation
Narumi Sawada （Undergraduate）
Home country: Aichi
Favorite aquatic animals: clam, whale
Hobby：going on a driving, trying a delicious food
Research project：in preparation
Kosuke Sugita （Undergraduate）
Home country: Aichi
Favorite aquatic animals: turtle
Hobby：watching sport games
Research project：in preparation
Research Assistant
Benjamin Yew
Home country: Singapore
Favorite aquatic animals: jellyfish, lobster
Hobby: driving
Alumni
- 2018 March 2 undergraduate students, 1 research assistant
- 2019 March 2 undergraduate students, 1 master student
- 2019 June 1 post-doc
- 2020 March 2 undergraduate students, 2 master students
- 2020 September 1 master student
◎Do you wish to join our research group? Go to the pages of Research and Recruitment.