Place:

Genome Center, University of California Davis, USA

USDA Nat'l Clonal Germplasm Repository - Tree Fruit & Nut Crops, Davis

Dates: May 27th-31th, 2019

　

We visited Genome Center at UC Davis to discuss on our collaborative projects on sex chromosome and determination systems in persimmons, with Prof. Luca Comai and Dr. Isabelle M. Henry. We also visited to USDA germplasm repository Davis, to take pictures of kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.), and to update information of their tree fruit and nut crop collections. This visiting was supported by International Activity Support Group of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "The Birth of New Plant Species".

　

The discussions with good collaborators helped us from various aspects, like to provide new genomic/transcriptomic technologies, which encouraged us powerfully. Huge germplasm collections of USDA, far beyond my expectation, reminded me the importance of plants resources, in which unfamiliar but interesting phenomena remain to be solved. This visit would certainly promote our research, and we will take care of the connections with them.

　

Kanae Masuda

Akagi Group

PhD Student, Grad. Sch. Environ. Life Sci., Okayama University

　

We had Joint Meeting for Young Researchers on "Frontiers in Imaging Probes and Technologies" on May 30th, 2019 at Okazaki conference center, Aichi, Japan.

　

This meeting was organized by KAKENHI "Resonance Bio", EMBO Practical Course "Functional live imaging of plants", and KAKENHI "The Birth of New Plant Species". Participants enjoyed interactions with each other and fermentation of research ideas like traditional foods of the venue, "Haccho-Miso". Winners of the poster awards were selected from each group. Mr. Kohdai NAKAJIMA, Nagoya University won the poster awards of our group. We also enjoyed interactions with other participants in different fields, and were encouraged to develop our studies.

　

Dr. Naoki Minamino (Ebine Group)

National Institute for Basic Biology

　

<Photo by Dr. Kazuo Ebine>

International Meeting for Young Researchers "Frontiers in Imaging Probes and Technologies"」 was held at Okazaki, Japan on May 29-30, 2019.

It was a joint meeting with EMBO Workshop "Functional Live Imaging of Plants" held at Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University on May 21-29, 2019.

Our reseach project has supported the meeting as one of co-sponsors.

Please see the detailed reports of participants.

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<Reports>

１．Dr. Hironori Takasaki（Saitama University, from Ikeda Group）

　

２．Dr. Naoki Minamino (National Institute for Basic Biology, from Ebine Group)

　

I had joind the International Meeting for Young Researchers "Frontiers in Imaging Probes and Technologies", which was held at Okazaki, Japan on May 29-30, 2019.

　

On May 29th, at the National Institute for Basic Biology, the National Institute for Physiological Science and National Institute for Molecular Science, Dr. Kamei, Dr. Murata, and Dr. Hayashi gave a lecture for their collaborative research facilities.
During the meeting on the 30th, exciting discussions were held which included invited talks, round table discussions and poster sessions.
It can be expected that it will be the start of new collaborative research for everyone who participated on both days.

　

Dr. Hironori Takasaki (Ikeda Group)

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University

　

The project meeting 2019 was held on 9-10/May/2019 at the ES Hall, Nagoya University.

In this meeting, many outstanding achievements were presented from each research groups, and we deeply discussed with the keyword of "Innovative collaboration for Interdisciplinary research".

A total of 133 people participated for two days and it became a very fruiteful meeting.