Dr. María José (Pepa) Bayarri has officially joined the Grupo de Acuicultura y Biodiversidad in the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). By the moment, her main task will be to assist in managing the AQUAGAMETE COST Action (2012-2016), which involves researchers from 20 different countries.

You can contact her in aquagamete@gmail.com

Welcome, Pepa.

AQUAGAMETE COST Action will fund the attendance of a total of 20 students from 10 different countries (Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia and Turkey) to the 1^st AQUAGAMETE Training School, entitled “Techniques for fish germline cryobanking”,which will be held in the Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC, Cádiz, Spain) from 13^th to 17^th of May.

Students will learn the use of several techniques related to gamete cryopreservation and their application, pots-thaw quality evaluation and germline biotechnology.