The 117th JSD Meeting

The 117th The Society for Reproduction and Development (JSD) Meeting was held at Nagoya University (Aichi Pref.) from Sep.22 to 25.
The following people gave lectures and presentations.

*Educational Lectures*
Atsuo OGURA: Developmental Engineering Technology to Support Reproductive Biology Research

*Publicly solicited symposium*
SRD-JSPS/ILR-Joint Symposium
“Cutting edge-technologies for animal reproduction”
Kimiko INOUE: Development of inter(sub)species somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques for preservation of valuable wild-derived mouse genetic resources

*Poster Presentation*
Shogo MATOBA: Multiplex analysis of genes encoding the SNAT family of amino acid transporters expressed in the placenta
Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Ayumi HAEGAWA: Cryopreservation of unfertilized oocytes and sperm of wild-derived mouse JF1 strain
Keiji MOCHIDA: Investigation of sperm freezing method in the Syrian hamster
Narumi OGONUKI: Improvement of microinjection techniques using primary spermatocytes
Satoshi FUNAYA: Localization analysis of histone variant H3.3 in mouse cloned embryos
Takaki TATEBE: Analysis of the autophagy system in somatic cell nuclear transferred embryos

Dr. Satoshi FUNAYA won the JRD Outstanding Paper Award for his work at the Univ. of Tokyo.
“Involvement of linker histone variant H1a in the regulation of early preimplantation development in mice”