FY2017 Annual Report

Physics and Biology Unit 
Associate Professor Jonathan Miller

1. Staff

• Dr. Michael Kuba, Staff Scentist 
• Dr. Tamar Gutnick, Postdoctoral Scholar 
• Dr. Iglesias Teresa, Postdoctoral Scholar 
• Dr. Zdenek Lajbner, Technician
• Dr. Reuven Pnini, Technician
• Dr. Fabienne Ziadi, Technician 
• Keishu Asada, Technician
• Takahiro Nishibayashi, Technician
• Midori Tanahara Administrative Assistant

2. Publications

2.1 Journals

Dornburg, A. et al. Testing ontogenetic patterns of sexual size dimorphism against expectations of the expensive tissue hypothesis, an intraspecific example using oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau). Ecology and Evolution, 1–8, doi:10.1002/ece3.3835 (2018).

2.2 Books and other one-time publications

Nothing to report

2.3 Oral and Poster Presentations

Lajbner, Z., Gordon, J., Timmons, C., Kuba, M., Gutnick, T., Edsinger, E. & Miller, J.  Octopus hatchlings flash red when exposed to ketamine, in The 39th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 2017, Fukuoka, Japan (November 25, 2017).

Iglesias, T., Gutnick, T., Lajbner, Z., Miller, J. & Kuba, M.  Preliminary observations of the ‘sleep-like’ resting state in the broadclub cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus, in The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 2017, Fukuoka, Japan (November 25, 2017).

Gutnick, T., Lajbner, Z., Iglesias, T., Nakajima, R., Miller, J. & Kuba, M.  Predatory behavior in the Broadclub Cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus),  Fukuoka, Japan (November 25, 2017).

Ziadi-Kuenzli, F., Sakurai, M. & Tachihara, K.  Incremental analysis of vertebral centra in wild and captive-bred bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) through micro-computed tomography, in The 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Tahiti (October 5 2017).

3. Meetings and Events

3.1 Seminar "Social reward: basic mechanisms in mouse and octopus"

• Date: March 6th, 2017
• Venue: OIST Campus Lab1
• Speaker: Prof. Gül Dölen, Johns Hopkins University