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Seto Marine Biological Lab, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University
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The lab explores the diversity and evolution of marine life in the Kuroshio Current.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying natural history in the Kuroshio Current, home to abundant marine life.
The Seto Marine Biological Laboratory stands on the southwest coast of the Kii Peninsula, a location with very high marine species diversity because of the influence of the Kuroshio Current.
Taking advantage of this location, the lab conducts natural history research, including taxonomy and systematics of marine invertebrates, biogeography, ecology, and ethology.
The lab uses two research and training vessels, an experimental site on Hatakejima, an uninhabited island in Tanabe Bay, and the Shirahama Aquarium for both research and education.
Key terms
- Marine invertebrates
- Animals without a backbone that live in the sea, such as shellfish, sea urchins, crabs, and jellyfish
- Phylogeography
- The study of how the genetic lineages of organisms are distributed geographically and how they have spread
- Plankton
- Small organisms that live drifting in the water
ResearchResearch themes
Taking advantage of its location with high marine species diversity, the lab conducts research in natural history fields, including morphological and molecular taxonomy and systematics of marine invertebrates, biogeography, phylogeography, ecology, and ethology.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory are faculty members, researchers, doctoral and master's students, fourth-year undergraduates, and technical staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorMichitaka Shimomura
- Associate ProfessorTomoyuki Nakano
- LecturerMariko Kawamura
- Assistant ProfessorRyutaro Goto
- Assistant ProfessorLuna Yamamori
- Project ProfessorAkira Asakura
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorRiriko Koido
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Shirahamaaquarium” Pterocirrus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Natural History of Marine Invertebrates: “Sea slug or nudibranch” Vardhanjp / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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