The STEM Career Choice Support Symposium was held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center (Tsukuba, Ibaraki) on Nov. 9th, and was also online. The symposium, hosted by the Ibaraki Prefecture, aimed to stimulate interest in science and engineering careers among junior high and high school students, their parents, and teachers. Dr. Kimiko Inoue delivered the keynote address. Title： What Is Developmental Engineering?

2025 RIKEN Tsukuba Open Day was held onsite. Theme: What is the Bioresource Research Center? We held Lab Tours. *The Origin of Life: A Look at the Moment Life is Created*

RIKEN Autumn School 2025 was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center (Tsukuba, Ibaraki) on Oct.14th to 15th. This event aims to provide a forum for exchange among young researchers from various research fields and countries, targeting Junior Research Associates (JRA), International Program Associates (IPA), and RIKEN Student Researchers (RSR). From our laboratory, Syun Tokita and Takaki Tatebe(JRA), Pham Dinh Quoc(IPA), and Yusuke Senda(RSR) participated. The following three members gave poster presentations. *Poster Presentation* Syun TOKITA: Overexpression of Placenta-Specific Noncanonical Imprinted Genes Causes Placental Enlargement in Intersubspecific Hybrid Mice Takaki TATEBE: Analysis of Autophagy Degradation Systems in Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Embryos Pham Dinh Quoc: Paused embryonic stem cells induced by […]

Dr. Hideyuki Tanabe, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, visited our lab and taught us how to prepare chromosome specimens. Dr. Tanabe is an expert in chromosome FISH. There were many tips at every step of the process, making it a highly educational experience. We were also amazed by Dr. Tanabe’s skilled techniques. Dr. Amano, the Next Generation Human Disease Model Research Team, Dr. Mizuno, the Experimental Animal Division, and Ms. Hirose from our lab, participated.

Dr. Shingo Miyawaki of the Joint Department of Veterinary Medicine at Gifu University, who gave a lecture at the Tsukuba Conference the previous day, came to observe our labratory.

Tsukuba Conference 2025 was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center (Tsukuba, Ibaraki) on Oct.1st to 3rd. Theme: Going into New Frontiers with Society RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC) participated in the conference and held a concurrent session on Oct 1. Dr. Kimiko INOUE, Director of our lab, joined the session. Session C-03：Sustainable Future Shaped by Diverse Epigenome and Genome Research Title: Functions of the large-scaled microRNA cluster derived from retrotransposons in rodent placentas

Dr. Atsuo Ogura from our lab participated in the 13th Symposium on Laboratory Animal Science, “New Developments in Laboratory Animal Science through DX Utilization,” held at Kyoto University, and delivered remarks as the President of the Japanese Society for Laboratory Animal Science.

Dr. Sayaka Wakayama and three students from the University of Yamanashi visited Tsukuba to share the cryopreservation technology they are jointly developing.

The 15th Asian Mouse Mutagenesis Association (AMMRA) & Asian Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (AMPC) Meeting was held at the Shimadzu Tokyo Innovation Plaza, (Kawasaki, Kanagawa) from Sep.18th to 19th. Theme: Mouse resources for illuminating the mammalian genome function   – Non-coding genome and decoding behavior – Ms. Michiko HIROSE from our lab gave a poster presentation. *Poster Presentation* Michiko HIROSE: Establishment of embryonic stem cells from wild-derived strains of mice