Dr. Sayaka Wakayama and two students from the University of Yamanashi visited Tsukuba on 30 July to share the cryopreservation technology they are jointly developing. We hope that this will help us to make progress with our new space experiment project.
The 170th RIKEN BRC Seminar was held at the RIKEN BioResource Research Center and online (Zoom). Dr. Dr. Chong Li Associate Professor, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University Title: Studies on histone modifications in somatic cell cloned embryos
The 2nd Annual Meeting ：Dynamic reproductive lifespan -Life-long changes and fluctuations in germ cell function and risk for next generation- (Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) FY 2023–2027) was held at Aichi Health Plaza Hotel (Chita County, Aichi) on July 24-26. Dr. Kimiko INOUE and Dr. Satoshi FUNAYA participated from our lab, and Dr. Inoue gave an oral presentation. Title: Manipulation of the reproductive lifespan through reproductive engineering technologies
SSR (Society for the Study of Reproduction) 57th Annual Meeting was held at Convention Centre Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) on July 15-19. Dr. Atsuo OGURA gave a lecture as an invited oral speaker. Yanagimachi Session on Assisted Reproduction Technologies Title: Assisted Reproductive Techniques in Mice and Hamsters – Past, Present, and Future Photo with Dr. Wei Xie (Tsinghua University) and Dr. Masahito Ikawa (Osaka University)
The 96th Annual Meeting of Japanese Tissue Culture Association was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center (Ibaraki, Japan) on June 27-28. Theme: “What Cells Can Do and What They Can Do in Culture”. Dr. Atsuo OGURA gave a lecture at the symposium. Symposium 2 Theme: Frontiers of Reproductive Engineering and Stem Cell Research Title: Recent advancement of somatic cell cloning technology
The 71st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JALAS) was held at Miyako Messe and Rohm Theatre Kyoto on May 29-31. *Oral Presentation* Kimiko INOUE: Establishment of ES cell lines from wild-derived mice using interspecies nuclear transfer technology. Fumio IKE: Filobacterium sp. 16S rRNA gene detected in deposited metagenome data of rhesus macaque. *Poster Session* Quoc Dinh Pham: High development efficiency of mouse embryos cloned from EB3 embryonic stem cells. Shogo MATOBA: Enhanced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in mouse TSCs derived from cloned embryos. Ayumi HASEGAWA: Cryopreservation of unfertilized oocytes and sperm of wild-derived mouse JF1 strain. Syun TOKITA: Differences in the developmental potential and gene expression in […]
The 65th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Ova Research (JSOR) was held at the Kobe Convention Center (Kobe, Hyogo) on May 18-19. Mr. Takaki TATEBE from our laboratory gave an oral presentation. Title: Autophagy activation in early mouse embryos based on transcriptome data analysis
On April 16, Dr. Aya Uchida of the Jackson Laboratory Japan, a graduate of our laboratory, visited BRC with Mr. Tomohiro Tamasato (Manager of Special Animal Services), Dr. Michael Ellis (Senior Director, Research & Development, The Jackson Laboratory, U.S.A.) and Dr. Aubrey Watkins (Vice President, Corporate Development, The Jackson Laboratory, U.S.A.). Dr. Ogura introduced our laboratory’s research/technology development and exchanged information on mouse reproductive engineering technology each other.
