People

Professor (P.I.)

Mari Kawaguchi, PhD

I have traveled widely across Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa, as well as Sweden, Canada, and the Philippines, in search of adult fish and fertilized eggs. Using these samples, I study the evolution of brood pouches in seahorses and pipefishes, as well as adaptive evolution of hatching environments in teleosts. My hobbies include drawing fish illustrations, beadwork, embroidery, eraser stamps, and paper crafts (origami architecture). I also collect ballpoint pen balls smaller than fish eggs. If you have a used pen, I would be happy to take it! Contact address: k-mari@sophia.ac.jp

M2

Naoki Yamashita

Nanako Takagi

Riku Kitazato

M1

Risako Ito

Wakana Iri

Inori Ota

Miyu Kono

Tamaki Minemura

B4

Alexander Daniel

Tianyu Yu

Keito Komatsu

Nao Kanda

Haruka Murakami

Tenma Yamagata

Others

Seahorse

They often wrap their tails around something and don't move, but their eyes move restlessly in search of food, etc. They seem to get restless unless they've got something to hold onto. They sometimes wrap their tail around themselves or other seahorses, but other seahorses usually take exception and try to free themselves. They then sometimes battle to see who can wrap themselves around each other even more tightly. I never get tired of seeing such behavior, I find it healing.