Jelena spent six weeks at the Marine Biological
Laboratory (University of Chicago) participating in the course Frontires in
Reproduction: Molecular and Cellular Concepts and Applications (FIR). During
that time, she had lectures in all relevant methods in reproductive biology
such as endocrinology, stem cells, gametogenesis, fertilization, sex
determination etc. Most of the time was devoted to laboratory practice and
performing experiments regarding signalling, CRISPR Cas9, epigenetics, in
situ hybridization, tissue and oocyte culture, germ cell transplantation,
oocyte maturation, ICSI, IVF, embryo transfer, ESC microinjection, reproductive
immunology, placentation etc.
Beside
the educational part, this was the perfect opportunity for networking. The course
itself has a very long tradition (since 1998) and the FIR community is very significant
in the area of reproductive biology and includes scientists from around the
world (circa 400 people).
Jelena can now
proudly say that she is a FIRbee 😊
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| FIRbees 2019 |
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| FIRbees 2019 with section directors and organizers |
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| Working mode |
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| Mission accomplished - sperm lab |
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| Science is exciting |
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| Chalk talk about fish surrogate production |
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| Wrap up of the labs from the Section 1 |
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| Jelena`s presentation at FIR symposium 2019 |
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| FIRbees 2019 at the sunset in the Woods Hole |
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| FIRbees 2019 at the closing reception |
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| FIRbees 2019 at the closing reception |
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| FIRbees during the weekend |
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| It is written in stone, no, in the tissue |
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| Grill party and fun |
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| We are big happy family now |
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| Present from dear colleague Augustin |
