General Education program for Freshmen and sophomore

Sea and Life (lecture)

　This lecture is also omnibus by some teachers and researchers.  In this lecture, diversity of fish egg and fish-egg products in Japan is introduced.  Then, diversity of early development, such as cleavage pattern, mesoderm formation and differentiation of primordial germ cells, is introduced.

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Introduction of science in Salmonid fish (lecture)

　This lecture is omnibus by some teachers, researchers and artist.  The educational staff of Nanae Lab. introduces about embryology and developmental technology in teleost fish.  In this lecture, history of analyzing the mechanism of early development of fish, and its application for recent developmental technology, such as induction of chimeric animals, are introduced.

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Field training I & II

　In this field training, students moved between Sapporo and Hakodate campus by bus or training vessel, Oshoro-maru.  When students visit to the Nanae Station, some lectures about aquaculture of teleost fish and field experiments are performed.

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Education in the Faculty of Fisheries

Lecture: Functional Biology in the Northern Biosphere.

　In this lecture, two teachers, Prof. H. Ueda and Prof. E. Yamaha belonging to Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere conduct this lecture to the third-year students in Faculty of Fisheries.  In the part by Prof. Yamaha, technology of aquaculture is firstly introduced, and then future prospect of aquaculture is discussed in recent study of fisheries science associated with the current technology in agriculture and livestock science.

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Student experiment: Practice of General Aquaculture

　In this practice, students study about general aquaculture in Hokkaido at local stations in FSC, namely Usujiri Fisheries Station, Toya Lake Station and Nanae Fresh-Water Station, and other facilities about aquaculture around seashore of Hokkaido Prefecture.  Students also try to experiment about reproduction, development and growth in algea and fish, physiological differentiation concerned with migration of salmonid species, studying several techniques of aquaculture and interaction between environment and organisms.
　In the Nanae Fresh-Water Station, students try artificial fertilization, chromosome set manipulation and cryopreservation of sperm.  Students also study otolith marking and its detection.

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Student experiment: Laboratory Works on Aquatic Biology

　In this student experiment, several teachers conduct several kinds of biological experiments associated with aquaculture of fisheries science, such as histology, genomic analysis, pathology, physiology, reproductive biology, developmental biology and so on, using teleost fish, invertebrate animals and marine algae.  In the part by Prof. Yamaha, students observe normal development of cyprinid species from fertilization to hatching.  Students also try to manipulate fish embryo and learn the mechanism of development in teleost fish.

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Education in Graduate School

Lecture: Fundamental Lecture in Biomass Production

　In this lecture, students study recent biomass and food production by plant agriculture, forestry, stockbreeding and aquaculture, and their fundamental biological and ecological system.  Students will realize balanced biomass production between human activity and nature conservation on the earth.
Prof. Tsutomu Hiura:
1) Biomass & productivity of natural vegetation. 2) Forestry & forest products.

Prof. Hajime Araki
1) Nursery production. 2) Cropping system & land management. 3) Plant resource & its utilization.

Associate Prof. Hiroshi Hata
1) Major livestock in stockbreeding.  2) Livestock production.

Prof. Etsuro Yamaha
1) Fish-seed & control of reproduction.  2) Fish feed. 3) Biotechnology for fish breeding.