The 12th WBC

The 12th Wakate BRC Conference (WBC) was held at Moriwaki Hall (RIKEN Tsukuba) and Zoom (Hybrid) on Jul. 11th.
Joint plans were also made with the RIKEN Mutual Benefit Society Tsukuba Division: donuts and coffee were provided during breaks. In the evening, a social event was held with drinks and food (hosted by the Life Science Research Promotion Division).
Dr. Kohtaro MORITA introduced himself as a new member, and the following members gave presentations.

*Poster Presentation*
Kohtaro MORITA: Development of a method for rat sperm cryopreservation using a chemically defined solution
Dinh Quoc Pham: High cleavage rate and developmental efficiency of mouse embryos cloned from embryonic stem cells
Takaki TATEBE: Analysis of autophagy degradation systems in somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos