Dr博士. Shin Kubota University of Mississippi.pptxVIP

Dr. Shin Kubota and the immortal jellyfish Who is Dr. Shin Kubota? Professor of marine biology at Kyoto University. Born and still has a home in Shirahama Japan. Author of 12 books on various subjects (4 of which are on jellyfish). Self described “avid jellyfish karaoke singer”, and owner of an outstanding jellyfish hat. His webpage listing his books and latest research (although his English isn’t the best) http://www.seto.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/shinkubo/shinkubo_home/index_en.html Scarlett Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) Approximately 3-4mm in diameter. Young specimens 1 mm in diameter have only eight tentacles evenly spaced out along the edge, while adult specimens have 80-90 tentacles. Thought to have originated in the Caribbean they now span all over the world. Can regenerate itself back through its entire life cycle in about two months. 100% of specimens have successfully regenerated in a controlled environment. The Hundred Year Study Kubota’s “teacher’s teacher” as he worded it began researching these jellyfish with no idea of its regenerative properties. Kubota’s teacher focused the study more in 1971 looking to decipher why the population was experiencing rapid growth. Shin Kubota himself has been studying the Scarlet Jellyfish since 1976. He noted during an interview however that the Scarlet Jellyfish had actually hidden this ability since the late 1800s when Showa Emperor Hirohito began a study on local jellyfish. How This Discovery Was Made? One day in my plankton net, there was a small scarlet jellyfish from the south, which had many sharp sticks stuck into its body, I thought poor thing and removed all of the sticks, hoping it may become better and swim again. But it didnt and shrunk. However, it rejuvenated!“ - Dr. Shin Kubota. Miracle? A wounded or diseased medusa Scarlett Jellyfish can revert itself back into a polyp and restart its own life cycle. It does this by: First going into a “meatball” type form in which a Scarlet Jellyfish d