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		We are studying the evolution of animal multicellularity in
		Prefectural University of 
		Hiroshima, with the PI Dr. Hiroshi Suga. Over 700 million years ago, a unicellular protist 
		acquired a simple multicellular system, which later on evolved to the 
		overwhelmingly complex and diverse body plans of the extant animals. What 
		was the molecular background of this innovation?
		
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			Aisa finished exchange programme (March 28, 2025)
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			Workshop at Tokyo (March 22, 2025)
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			Graduation (March 19, 2025)
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			Open lecture at Setsunan Univ (February 22, 2025)
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			Seminar at OUS (February 19, 2025)
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			Paper on educational ICT published (February 17, 2025)
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			Presenting master thesis projects (February 12, 2025)
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			Presenting graduation projects (February 5, 2025)
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			Organising a forum at MBSJ 2024 (November 27, 2024)
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			Lecture at Tsukuba Univ. (October 8, 2024)
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			Exchange student arriveed (September 24, 2024)
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			Evolution meeting at Tokai Univ. (August 22, 2024)
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			DNA extraction at Kyushu-Univ (August 3, 2024)
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			Review on the Ichthyosporea published  (July 30, 2024)
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			Riho Kodera, the best student awardee this year  (July 19, 2024)
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			Developmental biology meeting (June 19, 2024)
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			Review paper published (April 22, 2024)
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			Bioarchaeology meetings - 2 consecutive (February 19-20, 2024)
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			Master thesis presentation by Fuma (February 8, 2024)
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			Graduation project presentation (February 7, 2024)
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			Bioarchaeology workshop (December 9, 2023)
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			Annual meeting of MBSJ (December 7, 2023)
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			Softball & BBQ (October 26, 2023)
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			Book published (October 4, 2023)
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			Nearly 10 years anniversary of the lab (September 17, 2023)
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			Annual meeting of Evolution Society (August 31, 2023)
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			Open campus (August 9, 2023)
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			The best student award goes to.. (July 21, 2023)
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			Urushi sampling deep at Kyoto (Jul 16, 2023)
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			Graduation (Mar 17, 2023)
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			Meeting at Okinawa (Feb 18, 2023)
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			Graduation project presentation (Feb 8, 2023)
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			Lab ski tour (Jan 30, 2023)
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			Urushi Summit meeting at Mito (Dec 9, 2022)
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			MBSJ meeting (Nov 30, 2022)
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			Collaboration at Kyushu Univ (Sep 24, 2022)
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			Evolutionary Study Meeting on site (Aug 5, 2022)
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			Our open campus event was most popular! (Jul 24, 2022)
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			Two best students awarded (Jul 22, 2022)
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			Seitaro and Fuma back from BCN (Jul 20, 2022)
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			"Hot" BBQ (Jun 29, 2022)
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			Meeting in Tomakomai, Hokkaido (Jun 11, 2022)
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			Seminar by Dr. Watanabe (May 9, 2022)
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			Graduation (Mar 18, 2022)
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			Ayato Hino (M2) defended the master thesis (Feb 14, 2022)
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			B4 students presented the graduation projects (Feb 9, 2022)
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			MBSJ meeting held face to face (Dec 2, 2021)
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			Urushi trees on site (Nov 26, 2021)
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			Nice guests from Kyoto University (Oct 25, 2021)
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			Joining the meeting of Society of Evolutionary Studies (Aug 18, 2021)
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			Two B3 tudents got the best student prize of 2021 (Jul 21, 2021)
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			Two papers published (Mar 31, 2021)
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			Spontaneous graduation ceremony (Mar 4, 2021)
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			Students got the best student prize of 2020 (Feb 17, 2021)
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			Presentations of graduation projects (Feb 9, 2021)
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			Naoto Kobayashi presented the project (Jan 26, 2021)
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			Zoominar in Switzerland (Nov 23, 2020)
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			Home party (Nov 3, 2020)
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			Yokai-GO on site (Nov 1, 2020)
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			Interview from newspaper (Oct 30, 2020)
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			BBQ 4 month later (Sep 15, 2020)
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			Graduation (Mar 18, 2020)
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			Presentation of master projects (Feb 13, 2020)
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			Presentation of graduation projects (Feb 6, 2020)
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			End of the year party 2019 (Dec 27, 2019)
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			Unicellular origin of actomyosin-dependent cellularization (Nov 19, 2019)
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			Seminar in Hiroshima BioForum 2019 (Nov 13, 2019)
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			Softball competition (Oct 21, 2019)
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			Tutzing Meeting in Germany (Sep 16, 2019)
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			Zoology Society Meeting (Sep 12, 2019)
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			Evolution Meeting 2019 (Aug 8, 2019)
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			How to make a zebra without the zebra pattern (Jul 15, 2019)
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			Three students awarded the best student prize on 2019 (Jul 12, 2019)
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			Public lecture in Kyoto (May 16, 2019)
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			Welcome BBQ in the sun (May 10, 2019)
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			BBQ with blooming cherry (Apr 3, 2019)
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			Graduation (Mar 20, 2019)
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			Lab retreat (Feb 14, 2019)
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			Master thesis presentation (Feb 12, 2019)
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			Presentation of graduation projects (February 6, 2019)
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			Traditional year-end party (December 28, 2018)
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			Paper published online (December 25, 2018)
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			Pre-presentation of graduation projects (December 5, 2018)
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			Current Biology paper published (December 3, 2018)
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			Student presented at MBSJ meeting (November 28, 2018)
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			Grant report at Yamada Foundation (November 10, 2018)
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			Seminar at BRH (November 9, 2018)
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			Naito Conference (October 2, 2018)
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			Symposium on "Urushi" (September 29, 2018)
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			Book published (September 13, 2018)
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			Meeting at Tokyo (August 22, 2018)
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			Sampling at Kyoto (August 16, 2018)
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			An intense week with 6 Barcelona students ended (July 18, 2018)
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			Annual Meeting of JSDB+JSCB (June 8, 2018)
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			Talk on development of beetle's horn (June 4, 2018)
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			Capsaspora transformation paper published (May 12, 2018)
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			Meeting at National Institute of Genetics (April 15, 2018)
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			Paper published in J Life Environ Sci (Mar 31, 2018)
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			Paper published in Scientific Reports (Mar 29, 2018)
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			Moving on (Mar 23, 2018)
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			Catalan independence (Mar 17, 2018)
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			Ceremony awarding the support from Novartis (March 9, 2018)
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			Presentation of graduation projects (February 7, 2018)