Dear members of the Kyushu Branch of the Zoological Society of Japan
Thank you for your continued cooperation with our branch activities.
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Joint Kagoshima Regional Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan, the Botanical Society of Kyushu and Okinawa, and the Ecological Society of Japan will be held as follows.
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Joint Kagoshima Regional Meeting of the Three Societies for Fiscal Year 2025
Date and Time: Saturday, December 6, 2025, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Kagoshima University, Faculty of Science Building No. 2, 1st Floor, Room 214
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[Program]
■ High School Student Presentations (13:00 - 14:20)
1. Research on Magokorogai
Tsumagari Gakuen Kagoshima High School Natural Science Club
Hayataro Kitayama, Yuhai Uemura
2. Foraging strategies of the common house spider inhabiting buildings
Kagoshima Prefectural Kinkowan High School
Taira Yuki, Maeda Soma, Ibusuki Shota
3. Regarding the dorsal walking of flower chafers
Ikeda Gakuen Ikeda High School
Oikawa Sosuke, Kamagama Hana
4. Formulating the flowering of nationwide ‘Somei-yoshino' cherry trees ~Verification of the Ikeda model for practical application~
Ikeda Gakuen Ikeda High School
Bonno Itto, Ishiguro Juto, Arikawa Seiho, ? Noiyoshi, Iwakuni Nonoka
■ Special Lecture (14:40–15:35)
Diversity Research in the Suborder Pennatuloidea: Focusing on Sclerites and Water Depth
Yuka Kushida (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University)
■ Student Presentations (3:45 PM – 5:00 PM)
Do strawberries show a symbiotic response to soil nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
Masaru Sakata, Toshiki Utsumi, Mitsunori Fukudome
(Kagoshima University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Biology Program)
Histological study on the gustatory system of the iridescent shark catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
Ryo Miyagi, Takanori Ikenaga
(Kagoshima University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Biology Program)
Development of the laminar structure of the primary gustatory center in goldfish
Haruka Mukai, Takanori Ikenaga
(Kagoshima University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Biology Program)
Time-lapse recording of the morphological changes (tail shift) and tail beating movements observed at the completion of morphogenesis in the ascidian *Wakasaoikozora* (Wakasaoikozora is a common Japanese name; scientific/descriptive equivalent can be used as needed, but here is a direct translation: / ... morphogenesis completion of the ascidian *Oikopleura* or similar appendicularian - wait, Wakaleotamaboya is specifically "Wakasaoikozora" / *Wakasaoikozora* / ascidian).
Literal translation:
Time-lapse recording of the morphological change (tail shift) and tail beating movement observed at the completion of morphogenesis in Wakaleotamaboya.
Takumi Ishizu, Makiko Miwa, Ken Onuma
(Kagoshima University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Biology Program)
Attempt to clarify the chronological sequence of house primordium formation on the epidermis of Oikopleura dioica
Taketomi Yuki, Miwa Makiko, Onuma Ken
(Kagoshima University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Biology Program)
Contact:
Ken Konuma (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University)
We look forward to your participation.
I look forward to working with you.
Zoological Society of Japan, Kyushu Branch
General Affairs Secretary
Nagasaki University, Faculty of Fisheries
Mitsuharu Yagi
