Kyushu Association for Laboratory Animal Research 42nd Annual Meeting 44th Annual Meeting of the Kyushu Branch of the Japanese Association of Laboratory Animal Technicians Joint Okinawa Conference Program was held at Urasoe City Industrial Promotion Center (Okinawa Pref.) on Nov. 2. Dr. Atsuo OGURA gave a special lecture. Title: “Fundamentals and Applications of Reproductive and Developmental Engineering Techniques in Small Laboratory Animals”

2024 RIKEN Tsukuba Open Campus 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*

FY 2024 Advanced Technical Training for Faculty and Staff for Laboratory Animals was held at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Animal Experimentation Facility from Oct. 22 to 25 under the auspices of the Japanese Association of Laboratory Animal Facilities of National University Corporations. Theme: “Advanced technical training in reproductive technology for laboratory animals other than mice” Dr. Atsuo OGURA gave a lecture. Title: “Reproductive engineering techniques in the golden hamster”

Training course for cryopreservation of mouse sperm and embryos　 ~ Efficient superovulation method, point to improve fertilization and litter size rates ~

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 […]

Mr. Ken Kojima from the Tokyo Medical University Pre-clinical Research Center came to BRC to practice thawing frozen embryos. Now we can leave the thawing of frozen embryos to him at his center.

A tour of RIKEN Tsukuba branch was held for new administrative staff to be employed. They watched “real” mouse IVF and fertilized embryos in our lab.

RIKEN Summer School 2024 was held at Kobe Convention Center (Kobe, Hyogo) on Sep. 2-3. Three members of our lab gave poster presentations. *Poster Presentations* Takateru TATEBE: Analysis of autophagy degradation systems in SCNT embryos Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection Dinh Quoc PHAM: High cleavage rate and developmental efficiency of mouse embryos cloned from embryonic stem cells