Course Overview

Lecture will provide several topics on marine organisms, including fertilization, cilia and flagella, gene-manupulation, development, self-non-self recognition, evolution, animal behavior, population ecology and marine environment. The teaching staff of Shimoda Marine Research Center will tell you about recent progress of their own research.

Learning Achievement

The objectives of the course are (1) to provide students with a basic understanding of marine biology, animal diversity, animal evolution, marine ecology and marine environment.

Competence

Lectures will give a basic introduction to be used for either field studies or life science in later years.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Attendance (30%), Final Exam (70%).

Course schedule

Course introduction
Topics on Fertilization
Topics on Development (1)
Topics on Development (2)
Topics on Neurobiology
Topics on Development, evolution and phylogenetics
Topics on Diversity, primitive immune system
Topics on Marine ecology
Topics on coral reef
Topics on Marine environment

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Inaba Kazuo,Sasakura Yasunori,Yaguchi Shunsuke,Shiba Kogiku,Nakano Hiroaki,Wada Shigeki,Horie Takeo,Agostini Sylvain Leonard Georges

Other information

Lecture attendance will be recorded. Attendance will count toward the final grade (A medical note or similar can exempt students from losing marks this way).

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