2026
2 April, 2026
New members joined
Tao Pan (Postdoctoral Researcher), and Tae Akizuki and Mizuki Morihashi (Trainees; Doctoral Students in the Graduate School of Biostudies at Kyoto University), joined our team in April.
30 March, 2026
RIKEN BAIHO Award
Our team has been awarded the RIKEN BAIHO Award, which is presented to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to research and development support. Congratulations!!
Tomoya Kitajima, Yuanzhuo Zhou, Kohei Asaki, and Hirohisa Kyogoku “Development of technologies to prevent age-associated egg aneuploidy”
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24 March, 2026
PhD degree conferred
Yuanzhuo Zhou was awarded a PhD in Life Sciences at the Kyoto University Graduate School Degree Conferral Ceremony. Congratulations!!
・Kyoto University News
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24 March, 2026
Welcome and farewell party
We held a welcome/farewell party and a bowling event to celebrate Hou joining us, Asai and Zhou starting their new jobs, and Wei entering graduate school.
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6 February, 2026
MASSIV 1.0
At MASSIV 1.0, held in Vancouver, Canada, from 19 to 22 January, 2026, Tomoya Kitajima delivered an invited lecture, and Kohei Asai presented a poster.
3 February, 2026
A new member joined
Shengqun Hou (Research Associate) joined our lab in February.
23 January, 2026
"Dynamic Reproductive Lifespan" Next Generation Scientist Meeting
Tomoya Kitajima, So Shimamoto, Manami Koshiguchi, Mihoko Fushii, and Remi Kanemu attended the Next Generation Scientist Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A) "Dynamic Reproductive Lifespan" held in Kumamoto on 13 January, 2026 and presented their researches. So and Remi won the Best Poster Awards.
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23 January, 2026
SOKENDAI Life Science Retreat 2025
Tomoya Kitajima was invited to present our research at SOKENDAI Life Science Retreat 2025 held in Minamitsuru from 8 to 9 January, 2026.
Upcoming Events
12 April - 15 April, 2026
Mitotic spindle:
From living and synthetic systems to theory
Dubrovnik, CROATIA
9 June - 12 June, 2026
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
Hiroshima, JAPAN
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