The 172nd BRC Seminar was held in the Moriwaki Kazuo Hall, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, and Zoom hybrid. Dr. Fumitoshi ISHINO Professor Emeritus, Institute of Science Tokyo Title: Impact of “gene acquisition” from viruses on the establishment of mammalian ontogeny

Dr. Masashi Hada, the University of Tokyo, visited our lab. He shared the samples given by Dr. Sankai of the Tsukuba Primate Research Center with Ogonuki-san and took them back to his laboratory.

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Practice for Graduate Students “Developmental engineering technologies for mouse embryos at RIKEN BRC” Instructor: Dr. Shogo MATOBA Lecturer: Dr. Shinya AYABE (Experimental Animal Division) Lecturer: Dr. Tamio FURUSE (Mouse Phenotype Analysis Division)

TMI Associates (law firm) visited the BioResource Research Center (BRC) for a legal consultation service and laboratory tours. We introduced our research in our laboratory.

University of Tsukuba Doctoral Student Support Project (SPRING & BOOST) AY2024 Research Presentations was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center (Ibaraki, Japan) on Dec. 5-6. ★Poster Presentation★ Takaki TATEBE: Analysis of the autophagy system in somatic cell nuclear transferred embryos Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ 2024) was held Nov. 26 with an online poster presentation and onsite on November 27-28 at Fukuoka International Congress Center, Marine Messe Fukuoka. Dr. Kimiko INOUE gave an oral presentation. Open-call Symposium Session： [1AS-17] Higher order genome regulation and function mediated by the transposable element code (TEC) Title: Functions of large-scaled microRNA cluster derived from retrotransposon and their aberrations observed in nuclear transferred mice

The 34th Molossinus Research Meeting (sponsored by RIKEN Symposium) was held at Moriwaki Hall (RIKEN Tsukuba) and Hotel Lake Side Tsukuba (Ibaraki Pref.) on Nov. 22 -23. Theme: New Trends in Disease Research Using Mouse Genetics and AI Technology The following members gave presentations. ★Oral Preentation★ Fumio IKE: Pathology and Hosts of Filobacterium species Narumi OGONUKI: Improvement of microinjection techniques using primary spermatocytes ★Poster Presentation★ Kimiko INOUE: Development of inter(sub)species somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques for preservation of valuable wild-derived mouse genetic resources Ayumi HASEGAWA: Cryopreservation of gametes from the JF1 strain of wild-derived mice Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by […]

The 11th Wakate BRC Conference (WBC) was held at Moriwaki Hall (RIKEN Tsukuba) and Zoom (Hybrid) on Nov. 20. Joint plans were also made with the RIKEN Mutual Benefit Society Tsukuba Division: donuts and coffee were provided during breaks, and a social event was held in the evening with drinks and food. Dr. Satoshi FUNAYA introduced himself as a new member, and the following members gave presentations. ★Poster Presentation★ Michiko HIROSE: Generation and analysis of IRS2 KO Hamster Satoshi FUNAYA: Genome-wide analysis of histone variant H3.3 in mouse cloned embryo Dinh Quoc PHAM: High cleavage rate and developmental efficiency of mouse embryos cloned from embryonic stem cells High cleavage rate […]

RIKEN International Symposium “The 3D genome” was held at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research(BDR)(Kobe City, Hyogo Pref.) from Nov.11 to 12. The following members gave presentations. ★Oral Presentation★ Atsuo OGURA: Abnormal genomic reprogramming by somatic cell nuclear transfer ★Poster Presentation★ Satoshi FUNAYA: Genome-wide analysis of histone variant H3.3 in mouse cloned embryo