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Our laboratory was established in February 1951 as the Department of Fisheries Science (the predecessor of the Laboratory of Aquatic Zoology) with the founding committee members of the Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University. After Professor Amemiya's retirement (1958), Professors Tamotsu Tamura (1981), Mikio Oguri (1994), and Hiroshi Niwa (2001) have contributed to the development of fish physiology in their respective fields. When the Department of Fisheries Studies was reorganized in 1993, it was changed from a common course to a field of animal science in the Department of Natural Resources and Biological Environment, and its name was changed to Laboratory of Comparative Animal Informatics. In April 2002, Professor Hiroaki Somiya (retired in 2010), who was transferred from Mie University in April 2002, focused his research on fish sensory and phonological systems. In April 2006, we changed the name of the Laboratory to Fish Biology in order to make it more unique. Then, in 2018, with the reorganization of the graduate school, it is now a laboratory in the Department of Animal Science.

 

The current staff are Naoyuki Yamamoto (Professor), Hideki Abe (Associate Professor), Maki Goto (Assistant Professor), and Hanako Hagio (Designated Assistant Professor), who took up her position in April 2020. The number of students in the laboratory, including graduate students, is usually about 10 a year. At present, there is no place in Japan that studies the nervous system of fishes in general, so we want to make our laboratory as a center for studying the nervous, sensory, motor, and behavioral systems of fishes and aquatic animals.

 

　Motivated students with an interest in the nervous, sensory and behavioral systems of fish are welcome. The entrance examination for the Master's Program is held at the end of August every year (check the website of the Graduate School). In the case of graduate schools, it is important to discuss with the faculty before you take the examination, so if you are interested, please feel free to  contact us by e-mail. Please contact us by e-mail.

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Naoyuki Yamamoto, D.Sci., D.M.S.

​Prof., Lab. of Fish Biology

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