Programme:
Day 1st – 20th September, 2010
08:00 – 09:30

Registration

09:30 – 10:00

Opening the Syposium

10:00 – 10:30

Key note lecture
Takeo KISHIMOTOTokyo Institute of Technology, Japan„The cell cycle control: Lessons from starfish oocytes“
10:30 – 11:00

Commemorative medal for Takeo Kishimoto
Jan MOTLIKInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic

Helena ILLNEROVA
Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

11:00 – 11:20

Coffe break

11:20 – 11:30

Opening topic 1: Oocytes
Chair‐men: Takashi MIYANO, Radek PROCHAZKA11:30 – 11:55

Jibak LEE, Tatsuya HIRANO
Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan„Regulation of chromosome dynamics by cohesins in mammalian meiosis“
11:55 – 12:20

Takashi MIYANO, Mohammad MONIRUZZAMAN
Graduate School af Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan„Activation and inactivation of primordial oocytes“
12:20 – 12:45

Koji SUGIURA1,2, You‐Qiang SU1, John J. EPPIG1
1

The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
Laboratory of Applied Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, The
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2„Oocyte control of granulosa cell function and development“
12:45 – 13:10

Yuji HIRAO, Kosuke IGA, Kenji NARUSE, Naoki TAKENOUCHINational Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region (NARCT), Morioka, Japan„In vitro growth of bovine oocyte‐granulosa cell complexes after vitrification“

13:10 – 14:10

Lunch break

14:10 – 14:35

Radek PROCHAZKA
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Regulation of pig oocyte maturation by EGF‐like peptides“14:35 – 15:00

Sugako OGUSHI1, Yasuko KATO1, Akira NAKAMURA1, Mitinori SAITOU21Laboratory for Germline Development, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University,Kyoto, Japan.
2„Functional analysis of maternal nucleolus in mouse oocytes“
15:00 – 15:25

Petr SOLC
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Aurora‐A regulates MTOCs (centrosome) biogenesis but it does not trigger
G2/M transition in mouse oocytes matured in vivo“
15:25 – 15:50

Martin ANGER
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Age‐related aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes“
15:50 – 16:10

Coffe break

16:10 – 18:30

Poster session
Poster competition: Jan MOTLIK, Kazuhiro KIKUCHI

18:30 – 19:00

Free time

19:00 – 20:30

Galla dinner

20:30 – 21:00„Baldrián“, the folklore group from Pardubice, Czech Republic

21:00

DrinksDay 2nd – 21st September, 201008:30 – 08:40

Opening topic 2: Fertilization
Chair‐men: Jiri KANKA, Naomi KASHIWAZAKI

08:40 – 09:05

Junya ITO1,2, Rafael A. FISSORE3, Naomi KASHIWAZAKI1,2
Laboratory of Animal Reproduction,
1
School of Veterinary Medicine,2
Graduate School of Veterinary Science, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan.
3
Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusets, Amherst, USA„Factors associated with calcium oscillations during fertilization in mammals“
09:05 – 09:30

Konosuke OKADA
Faculty of Applied Life Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Masashio, Japan„Vole sperm cryopreservation: assessmants of viability, sperm DNA integrity
and fertilizing capacity“
09:30 – 09:55

Tereza TORALOVA
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„The role of CENPF in bovine preimplantation development“
09:55 – 10:20

Helena FULKA
Institute of Animal Science, v.v.i., Prague‐Uhrineves, Czech Republic„From oocyte to embryo – remodeling the parental genomes“
10:20 – 10:40

Coffe break

10:40 – 10:50

Opening topic 3: Stem cells
Chair‐men: Ales HAMPL, Noboru MANABE

10:50 – 11:15

Ales HAMPL
Department of Biology, Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic„Human embryonic stem cells“
11:15 – 11:40

Zuzana KOLEDOVA
Department of Biology, Medical Fac of Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic„Centrosomal decisions on self‐renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells“
11:40 – 12:05

Petr VODICKA
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„iPS cells in miniature pigs“
12:05 – 12:30

Jana JUHASOVA‐HLUCILOVA
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Bone marrow‐derived mesenchymal stem for the regeneration of cartilage
and bone“
12:30 – 12:55

Helena SKALNIKOVA
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Proteomics of neural stem cells isolated from miniature pigs“13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:10

Opening topic 4: Genetics manipulation
Chair‐men: Josef FULKA, Takashi NAGAI

14:10 – 14:35

Atsuo OGURA, Kimiko INOUERIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan„Improvement of somatic cell nuclear transfer in mice: Genetic andepigenetic approaches“
14:35 – 15:00

Masahiro KANEDA, Tamas SOMFAI, Seiki HARAGUCHI, Satoshi AKAGI, Shinya
WATANABE, Takashi NAGAI
National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization, Tsukuba, Japan„Normal and abnormal epigenetic changes in the development of clonedcattle“
15:00 – 15:25

Noboru MANABE1, Ichiro ONOYAMA1, Junyou LI1, Yutaka SENDAI2, Yoshito
AOYAGI3
1Animal Resource Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Kasama, Japan.
Central Research Institute for Feed and Livestock, Zen‐Noh, Tsukuba, Japan.
3
Embryo Transfer Center, Zen‐Noh, Kami‐Shihoro, Japan.
2„Characteristics of prion, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) pathogen,homo‐knockout cow“
15:25 – 15:50

Michiko NAKAI1, Kazuhiro KIKUCHI1, Junya ITO2,3, Naomi KASHIWAZAKI2,3,Hiroyuki KANEKO1
1Division of Animal Sciences, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan.
Laboratory of Animal Reproduction,
2
School of Veterinary Medicine,
3Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan.

„Xenotransplantation of gonadal tissue for utilization of genetic resources inpigs“
15:50 – 16:15

Stefan JUHASInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, Libechov, Czech Republic„Miniature pig as a large animal model of Huntington disease“
16:15 – 16:30

Closing of the Symposium