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Date Speaker Chair Contents Journal
08/10/02 Masami KATAKURA Usui
Requirement of Oct3/4 function for germ cell specification.
Dev.Biol. 2008 May 15;317(2):576-84.
08/10/09 Fumitake USUI Ohya Expression profiling of circulating non-red blood cells in embryonic blood. BMC Dev Biol
2008 Feb 27;8:21
08/10/16 Tomoko OHYA Teshima
08/10/23 Ayumi TESHIMA Atsumi The silver locus product (Silv/gp100/Pmel17) as a new tool for the analysis of melanosome transfer in human melanocyte-keratinocyte co-culture. Exp. Dermatol 2008 May;17(5):418-26.
08/10/30 Yusuke ATSUMI Kashiwagi Pitx2 regulates gonad morphogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.
2008 Aug 12;
105(32):11242-7.
08/11/06 Maya KASHIWAGI Sakata Reproduction of Wild Birds via Interspecies Germ Cell Transplantation. Biol Reprod. 2008 Nov;79(5):931-7.
08/11/20 Ayako SAKATA
Ohtomo

Stable integration and conditional expression of electroporated transgenes in chicken embryos.

Dev. Biol. 2007 May 15;305(2):616-24.
08/11/27 Asako OHTOMO Tominari
08/12/04 Kazue TOMINARI Katakura Characterization and localization of side population (SP) cells in zebrafish kidney hematopoietic tissue. Blood 2008 Feb 1;111(3):1131-7. .


Date Speaker Chair Contents Journal
08/04/10 Fumitake USUI Tominari


Epigenetic regulation of Nanog gene in embryonic stem and trophoblast stem cells.

Genes Cells
2007 Mar;12(3):387-96.
08/04/24 Kazue TOMINARI Teshima Genetic reduction of class IA PI-3 kinase activity alters fetal hematopoiesis and competitive repopulating ability of
hematopoietic stem cells in vivo
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Blood. 2006 Feb 15;107(4):1375-82.
08/05/08 Ayumi TESHIMA Sakata Melanocyte fate in neural crest is triggered by Myb proteins through activation of c-kit. Cell Mol Life Sci.
2007 Nov;64(22):2975-84.
08/05/15 Ayako SAKATA Ohya Production of quail (Coturnix japonica) germline chimeras derived from in vitro-cultured gonadal primordial germ cells. Mol Reprod Dev
2008 Feb;75(2):274-81.
08/05/22 Tomoko OHYA Atsumi Growth factors sustain primordial germ cell survival, proliferation and entering into meiosisin the absence of somatic cells. Dev Biol 2005 Sep 1;285(1):49-56.
08/05/29 Yusuke ATSUMI Ohtomo
08/06/05 Asako
OHTOMO
Hasizume AKT signaling promotes derivation of embryonic germ cells from primordial germ cells. Development. 2008 Mar;135(5):869-79. Epub 2008 Jan 23.
08/06/12 Yui HASIZUME Katakura Effects of 17beta-estradiol on distribution of primordial germ cell migration in male chicks Asian J Androl. 2008 Mar;10(2):243-8.
08/06/19 Masami KATAKURA Kashiwagi Nanog safeguards pluripotency and mediates germline development. Nature 2007 Dec 20;450(7173):1230-4.
08/06/26 Maya KASHIWAGI Usui Xenogenesis in teleost fish through generation of germ-line chimeras by single primordial germ cell transplantation. Biol Reprod. 2008 Jan;78(1):159-66.


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