Bilateral project with Serbian colleagues

In the period between 20^th and 25^th May we hosted dr Nada Tokodi and dr Damjana Drobac from the Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad (Serbia). They were in Gödöllő as a part of the bilateral project TÉT_16-1-2016-0176 (NKFI Hivatal) "Invasive and blooming cyanobacteria in Serbian and Hungarian waters". The main activity during their stay was field trip to two lakes which we use for examination of presence of cyanobacteria in water and cyanotoxins in water and fish tissue. We also collected fish various tissues in order to analyze them for potential histopathological effects. Beside this, Nada and Damjana joined us in our current experiments regarding gonad cryopreservation and visited our zebrafish facilities. Since we spent such a good time together, we are looking forward to hosting them again in July.

We would like to thank our dear colleagues Dr. Árpád Ferincz,  Dr. Ádám Staszny, Vera Juhás and Bence Ivanovics for their precious help and collaboration.

Start of fishing with Árpi and Ádám

Vera collecting water samples

Vera checking physicochemical properties of the water

Sampling of the fish tissue

Whole team for field work (except Nada who took the picture)

Team work

Posing during work (special friend in the background)

Special friend smelling food

With Bence in zebrafish facilities

With Bence in zebrafish facilities

Bence showing zebrafish spawning

With Zoran during cryopreservation experiment

With Zoran and Ilija during preparation for tissue dissociation

Ilija i Damjana during tissue vitrification experiment

Zoran and Damjana during checking the viability of cells

Nada and Damjana during presentation of their previous work to our colleagues from the Department

Nada and Damjana during presentation of their previous work to our colleagues from the Department

We also had some discussion after their presentation