2018
25 December, 2018
MBSJ 2018
Shuhei Yoshida and Sui Nishiyama attended MBSJ 2018 (the 41th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan) held in Yokohama from 28-30 Nov., 2018 and presented their researches.
14 November, 2018
BDR Symposium 2019
BDR Symposium 2019 "Control and Design of Biosystems" will be held from March 25 to 27, 2019. Registration is closed.
9 October, 2018
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
Kitajima lab takes part of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Ensuring integrity in gametogenesis"
25 September, 2018
Yi Ding awarded PhD at Kyoto Univ
Yi Ding received his PhD degree in Life Sciences from the Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University on 25 Sept., 2018. Congratulations!
・Kyoto University News
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20 September, 2018
SRD Outstanding Presentation Award
Hirohisa Kyogoku attended the 111th SRD Meeting（Ueda, 13 - 15 Sept., 2018) and the 56th Annual Meeting of The Biophysical Society of Japan (Okayama, 15-17 Sept., 2018) and gave oral presentations. He won the SRD Outstanding Presentation Award!!
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20 September, 2018
Summer Internship Program
Summer internship program for undergraduate students was held from 20-24 August. Kitajima Lab welcomed 3 students. They had the opportunity to carry out experiments using live-imaging of mouse oocytes and presented their results to the other internship participants.
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29 August, 2018
We published a new paper on the oocyte nucleolus (NPB)
We found that the number and size of the NPB was scaled by the volume of NPB materials.
Kyogoku H., Wakayama T., Kitajima T.S. and Miyano T.
Single nucleolus precursor body formation in the pronucleus of mouse zygotes and SCNT embryos.
PLOS ONE 13(8): e0202663 (2018). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202663.
・Pubmed
・PLOS ONE
13 August, 2018
EMBL Workshop: Imaging Mouse Development
Hirohisa Kyogoku attended EMBL Workshop: Imaging Mouse Development, held in Heidelberg from July 24 to 27 July and gave a poster presentation.
20 July, 2018
New Publication
A protocol for live imaging of mouse oocytes is now available.
Courtois A., Solc P., and Kitajima T.S.
Triple-color live imaging of mouse oocytes. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1818:89-97. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8603-3_10.
・Pubmed
・Springer
25 June, 2018
New Publication
A protocol for micromanipulation of mouse oocytes is now available.
Kyogoku H., Yoshida S., and Kitajima T.S.
Cytoplasmic removal, enucleation, and cell fusion of mouse oocytes. Methods Cell Biol. 2018;144:459-474. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2018.03.038. Epub 2018 May 7.
・Pubmed
・Elsevier
25 June, 2018
Meiosis, Gordon Research Conference
Tomoya Kitajima was invited to present our research at Meiosis, Gordon Research Conference, held in New London, USA on 10-15 July, 2018
8 June, 2018
EMBL Microtubles: From Atoms to Complex Systems
Aurelien Courtois attended EMBL Microtubles: From Atoms to Complex Systems, held in Heidelberg from May 27 to 30 May and gave a poster presentation.
8 June, 2018
Spring Lab Excursion
We went strawberry picking and had a barbecue in the Kobe suburbs with our families and a former lab member. We also recently participated in the RIKEN Futsal competition, in which we won third place.
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11 May, 2018
Our new paper has been published. We found a new molecular pathway for the maintenance of chromosome cohesion.
Ding, Y., Kaido, M., Llano, E., Pendas, A.M., and Kitajima, T.S.
The post-anaphase SUMO pathway ensures the maintenance of centromeric cohesion through meiosis I-II transition in mammalian oocytes.
Current Biology 28(10), 1661-1669 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.019
・Pubmed
・Current Biology
・Dispatch in Current Biology
11 May, 2018
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tomoya Kitajima gave a three-day lecture at Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from May 9 to 11, 2018.
20 April, 2018
New members joined!!
Osamu Takenouchi (JSPS Research Fellow) and Tappei Mishina (JSPS Research Fellow), and Kohei Asai (Student trainee) joined our lab from April!
20 April, 2018
International Titisee Conference
Tomoya Kitajima was invited to present our research at the 117th International Titisee Conferenfe From oocyte to embryo - illuminating the origins of life, held in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany on 11-15 April.
23 March, 2018
RIKEN Research Incentive Award
The RIKEN Research Incentive Award 2017 has been awarded to Hirohisa Kyogoku. Congratulations!
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14 Febryary, 2018
Lab Ski Trip
We went skiing to Hachi-Kita Kogen Ski resort with family and friends. It was perfect weather for skiing and we had a great time.
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17 January, 2018
A review has been published. This review introduces cell biological causes of kinetochore-microtubule attachments in oocytes, a risk for aneuploidy in eggs.
Kitajima, T.S.
Mechanisms of kinetochore-microtubule attachment errors in mammalian oocytes.
Development, Growth &
Differentiatoin 2018 Jan 10. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12410.
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・Development, Growth, & Differentiation
9 January, 2018
ConBio2017
Tomoya Kitajima, Hirohisa Kyogoku, Masashi Mori and Shuhei Yoshida attended ConBio2017（The 40th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan) held in Kobe from 6-9 December, and presented their researches.
