Laboratory of Wildlife Population Demography,
Mountain science center Sugadaira research station,
University of Tsukuba
Welcome to TsudaLAB
In my laboratory, We study about wildlife population demography of various species distributed from mountains to the sea on various spatiotemporal scales and applying them to ecosystem management, conservation, assessment of global warming impact, etc...
It covers a wide range of species from fish, insects, mammals, fungi, trees, aquatic plants, etc.
＊Our laboratory is essentially one of the laboratories at Sugadaira Research Station, but it belongs to the Department of Regional Resource Conservation, Forestry and Nature Conservation Laboratory at Tsukuba Campus.
About Tsuda Laboratory
About research themes
How to decide research theme?
1. We propose some topics and you select what you are interested in.
2. You can bring in target theme/species that the you are interested in.
3. These two intermediate patterns.
We specialize in population dynamics evaluation using molecular ecological methods, but we also support research that does not involve genetic analysis.
We welcome the theoretical research that does not deal with actual biological data (I would like to do it recently).
About research schedule, internationalization.
It's depend on the target species but annual laboratory schedule's example is below.
April to June
: consult research plan, apply research grants and get permissions to collect samples in various places.
July to beginning of October
: busy with Field trip, sampling all over Japan(My car mileage is about 35000km/yr！).
From the end of Summer
:Start genetic experiment.
After Autumn
:Analyze genetic data.
In addition, my laboratory is also focusing on internationalization and globalization of research and education. Fortunately, I could get a research network all over the world in my 5 years of research life in Sweden and Italy, and I actually saw the educational research sites of overseas universities such as Europe, and I strongly feel that internationalization and globalization are essential for the Japanese universities. Therefore, I encourage student to get overseas experience. By not only going abroad, but also by accepting visits from overseas students and researchers, I would like to give the laboratory members more opportunities to improve these skills.
We welcome students, researchers, etc.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact us.
Our laboratory is located at Sugadaira Research station, Mountain Science Center, and there is a dormitory where students and researchers can stay (about 2 km from the laboratory). We basically ask our students to live in around Sugadaira.
We are open a gate to bachelor students in the Department of Bioresources. In the Master's program, I am mainly in charge of the mountain science degree program, but it is also possible to accept from the bioscience degree program and the bioresource science degree program. The Doctoral Program mainly accept from the agricultural degree program, but the bioscience degree program is also acceptable.
I hope you will come with a degree program that suits you.
If you would like to go on to a university, we welcome you to visit our laboratory.
