2025
19 December, 2025
MBSJ2025
Tomoya Kitajima, So Shimamoto and MeiAkiko Mukose attended the 48th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ 2025) held in Yokohama from 3 to 5 December, 2025 and gave research presentations.
1 December, 2025
Celebration Party
We held a celebration party and a table tennis tournament with our lab members and their families to welcome Visiting Scientist Dr. Guo and Student Trainee Mr. Wei, celebrate the publication of our papers, and congratulate Team Director Kitajima on receiving the Osaka Science Prize.
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11 November, 2025
A researcher from CITIC–Xiangya in China visited our lab
Jing Guo from CITIC-Xiangya Reproductive and Genetic Specialty Hospital in China visited our lab. She plans to stay for a month to learn live imaging techniques.
11 November, 2025
International Young Scholars Xiangjiang Forum
Zhou Yuanzhuo attended at the International Young Scholars Xiangjiang Forum held in Changsha, China from 7 to 9 November, 2025 and presented her research.
11 November, 2025
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society
Tomoya Kitajima was invited to present our research at the 98 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society held in Kyoto from 3 to 5 November, 2025.
5 November, 2025
Preventing age-associated egg aneuploidy
As women age, the frequency of egg aneuploidy increases. This phenomenon represents one of the biggest barriers in fertility treatment. In this study, we successfully suppressed aneuploidy in eggs from aged mice. By developing a protein-based artificial kinetochore to fine-tune the pulling forces exerted by microtubules on chromosomes, we prevented premature chromosome separation, a major cause of age-associated aneuploidy. These effects facilitated the production of euploid eggs. These findings open a new avenue for future applications in infertility treatment.
Zhou Y, Asai K, Kyogoku H, Kitajima TS, "Designing protein-based artificial kinetochores as decoys to prevent meiotic errors in oocytes", Nature Cell Biology, doi: 10.1038/s41556-025-01792-w.
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