Farewell to Ági

Ági is leaving our group and will continue to pursue her scientific carreer at a Lendület group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences coordinated by Dr. Balázs Győrffy as of November 2nd, 2016. It was great to work with you, Ági, we will miss you a lot. We wish you a lot of success in your work!

Austrian-Hungarian Joint Project

Ákos and Ági from the group and Kovács Balázs and Guti Csaba from the Fish Genetics Group of our Department have been participating in an Austrian-Hungarian Joint Project entilted to genetic analyses of brown trout populations in Danube region. The collaboration partner are Steven Weiss an d his group in University of Graz.

All of us visited their lab in this October. Ági and Csaba have spent there two weeks to extend their analyses for their doctoral research. Ákos and Balázs have visited them for two days to discuss about more collaboration.

University of Graz

Visiting of fish rooms

At the beautiful Mur river

After the nice paprika chicken dinner (thanks to Csaba)

7th AQUAGAMETE Training School: Fish proteomics

Two members of our group, Timi and Gergő have participated as trainees at the 7th AQUAGAMETE Training School entitled "Fish proteomics" from 26/09/16 to 30/09/16 in Olsztyn, Poland. Training School was organized by Professor Andrzej Ciereszko (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polsih Academy of Sciences) and supported by COST Action FA1205: AQUAGAMETE.

The participants of the Training School

Beside the very interesting lectures, which were held by Professor Ciereszko, Professor Serhiy Souchelnytskyi (College of Medicine, Qatar University) and Dr. Thomas Fröhlich (Laboratory of Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center of the University of Munich), we have gained experience in protein sample preparations from different fish tissue, electrophoresis, computer analysis of gels and mass spectrometry identification of proteins by the help of the Training Team (Dr. Mariola Dietrich, Dr. Joanna Nynca, Dr. Mariola Słowińska, M.Sc. Agnieszka Mostek and M.Sc. Błażej Westfalewicz). On the last day of the Training School, each trainees have reported their results, experiences and conclusions.

Starting electrophoresis in the first dimension (isoelectrofocusing)

Preparation SDS-gels for the second dimension 

SDS-gel

Mass spectrometry identification of proteins

During lecture

STSM in Santander

Last week, Ákos has participated at a Short-term Scientific Mission (STSM) of the COST Action FA 1205 AQUAGAMETE at the "El Bocal" Research Facility of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Santander, Spain. The objective of the STSM was to carry out experiments on the sperm of the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis), test cryopreservation methods developed for other marine fish species. The host of the STSM was Dr. Vanesa Robles and Ákos had the opportunity to meet the investigators working at the facility. During the stay, a meeting of five scientists working in the area of fish reproduction was held in order to plan a project proposal for funding by the EU. We all thank Vanesa for the wonderful organization and hospitality!

Dr. Olvido Chereguini introducing Ákos to the work with the Senegalese sole

Sperm cryopreservation in the lab

Participants of the project meeting: Dr. Catherine Labbé (INRA, Rennes, France), Ákos, Dr. Vanesa Robles (IEO, Santander, Spain), Dr. Ignacio Giménez (Rara Avis Biotec, Valencia, Spain), Dr. Juan F. Asturiano (UVP, Valencia, Spain)