CSU seals partnership, discusses marine invertebrate systematics and taxonomy research with Hokkaido University

Caraga State University, through the Department of Biology, collaborates with Hokkaido University (Japan) for a Lecture-Workshop on Marine Invertebrates Systematics and Taxonomy Methods on March 15, 2024. The primary objective of this activity was to introduce various approaches to the taxonomic studies of Phylum Nemertea, Order Polycladida, and Order Isopoda, with faculty and PhD students from Hokkaido University serving as resource persons. Several participants from different SUCs, NGAs, and MS/BS Biology students actively participated in the lecture-workshop.

The Ceremonial Signing of the Collaborative Research Agreement between CSU and Hokkaido University was also made to seal the partnership between the two universities on marine invertebrate systematics and taxonomy research.

A series of sampling activities were conducted from March 13 until March 20, 2024, in selected coastal municipalities in Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Sur by CSU and Japanese researchers. ┃via jrosal/pico