Happy Holidays!

The end of the year is nearing. It has been a very exciting one for our group with successes, exciting travels, lots of work, nice publications but also sad losses. We are looking forward to the new year with hope for more interesting discoveries, meetings with fellow scientists and friends and new collaborations. We wish everyone Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year of 2017!

Colleagues from Slovenia visited our lab

Dr Simona Sušnik-Bajec and Dr Aleš Snoj from the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, spent one week in our as a part of our join project regarding transplantation of  spermatogonia among salmonid species. This time we checked success of transplantation which we did during autumn. 

Simona preparing everything for work

Preparing the sample for checking

Aleš collecting samples for molecular analysis 

Team work

Cute company

Broodstock review

On Friday December 9th, we reviewed our common carp broodstock. Fish were harvested from their tank, anesthetized, their PIT tags were scanned and then their standard length and weight was measured and their sex determined. The goal of this review was to check their growth since June as well as to determine which individual is ready for spawning. Most fish have doubled their size and males already have sperm. We hope to attempt the first spawning in February.

Our colleague Balázs and Zoran are harvesting fish from the tank

The sex of fish was checked by the presence of sperm

All fish are weighed and measured before sex determination

Colleagues from Vodnany visited our lab

Dr Vojtěch Kašpar and Roman Franěk from the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, spent one week in our lab for joint research on carp testis cryopreservation.  

 preparing cryomedia

 cutting tissue

more cutting

weighting of tissue pieces

one happy bunch with controlled rate freezer

filtering

Interreg-IPA CBC Hungary-Serbia

Jelena and Zoran participated in Info Day for Interreg-IPA CBC Hungary-Serbia Programme which was organized in Subotica (Serbia). There were representatives of Joint and national Secretariats who explained details regarding the programme, project call and application process.

representative of the Serbian Secretariat from Subotica

representative of the Joint Secretariat from Budapest

explaining application process