Short term scientific mission (STSM) in Valencia

Timi and Eszti spent 10 days at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, working with the research team of Dr. Juan Asturiano. Our stay was financed by the AQUAGAMETE COST action.

The main topic of our investigations was the comparison of protocols for European eel (Anguilla anguilla) sperm cryopreservation, furthermore new developments in this topic were also carried out. The results of these experiments are going to be published in the JoVE, for this purpose all the methods were recorded on video.

Timi injecting an eel with hormon (to induce spermiation)

Eszti and Germán during stripping

sperm stripping

recording the steps of cryopreservation

Victor evaluating the sperm motility with CASA

cryopreservation

weekend lab meeting at the central market of Valencia
(from left to right: Timi, Luz, Johnny, Laura :), Chris, Filipa)

Joint meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology (ICZ) & the 87th meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ)

Ákos has participated at the Joint meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology (ICZ) & the 87th meeting of the ZSJ that was held on 14-19th November, 2016 at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan. The meeting had more than 700 registered attendees from all over the world. A symposium on the reproduction of aquatic organisms was organized by Dr. Yoshida Manabu where representatives of the COST Action FA1205 AQUAGAMETE (including Dr. Juan F. Asturiano from Spain, Dr. Martin Pšenička from Czech Republic and Ákos) had the opportunities to present their results as well as those of the Action. A gigantic poster session of the conference with 728 posters was also organized at the Okinawa Convention Center.

The Fish Reproduction Group was represented at the meeting with the following works:

Oral presentations:

Juan F. Asturiano, María J. Bayarri, Ákos Horváth: AQUAGAMETE COST Action. Resume of activities and results 2013-2016
Akos Horvath, Eszter Kasa, Juan F Asturiano: Sperm cryopreservation and vitrification of aquatic species

Posters:

Carina Caldeira, Ákos Horváth, Dusan Jesensek, Branko Glamuzina, Carles Soler: Sperm kinetic assessment of Adriatic grayling (T. thymallus) and European flat oyster (O. edulis)
Eszter Kasa, Dusan Jesensek, Gergely Bernath, Timea Kollar, Zoltan Bokor, Bela Urbanyi, Akos Horvath: Vitrification of the sperm of salmonid species

AQUAGAMETE reunion in Okinawa: Dr. Luz Perez (Spain), Dr. Martin Pšenička (Czech Republic), Ákos, Dr. Juan F. Asturiano (Spain)

Ákos presenting a poster by the Fish Reproduction Group

A working dinner with friends

22th Conference on Animal Reproduction, 11-12. November 2016

Timi and Eszti has participated on the 22th Conference on Animal Reproduction in  Kecskemét, Hungary. The official language of the conference was Hungarian, altough we had very interesting speakers from Spain and United Arab Emirates as well.

Timi and Eszti

The new results of our research group were presented by one oral and one poster presentation:

Kollár Tímea, Cserepes Judit, Szabó Katalin, Faragó Bernadett, Budai Csilla, Pribenszky Csaba, Bernáth Gergely, Csenki Zsolt, Horváth Ákos: Storage of fish embryos on low temperatures. (oral presentation) 22th Conference on Animal Reproduction, Kecskemét, Hungary,11-12. November 2016, Book of abstracts p. 20. (In Hungarian)

KÁSA ESZTER, LUJIC JELENA, MARINOVIC ZORAN, KOLLÁR TÍMEA, URBÁNYI BÉLA, HORVÁTH ÁKOS: Opportunities of gene conservation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio): sperm- and gonadal stem cell vitrification. (poster presentation) 22th Conference on Animal Reproduction, Kecskemét, Hungary,11-12. November 2016, Book of abstracts p. 27. (In Hungarian)

Timi presenting her results

Eszti with her poster