The Forum was held at the campus of Seoul National University, South Korea, on 25-28 October in 2013.
Professor Jae Yong Han invited 2 researchers of the Research Group for Genetic and Reproduction Biology – Judit Barna and Eszter Patakiné Várkonyi - as speakers for the Forum.
Judit Barna was asked to be one of the Section leaders of „Bio-banking for Biodiversity management” as well.
Two PhD students of the same research group – Éva Váradi and Nikoletta Sztán – also took part at the Forum with oral presentations and posters as well.
Altogether 36 oral and 6 posters presentations were introduced at the conference, mostly about the various manipulations of the avian PGCs.
The titles of the Hungarian presentations:
- Dr. Barna Judit: Present situation in bio-banking management of indigenous poultry species in Hungary
- Patakiné Dr. Várkonyi Eszter: Efforts to conserve poultry genome by various treatments of early blastodermal cells
- Sztán Nikoletta: Preliminary study on intra-cardiac blastodermal cell transfer in goose species
- Váradi Éva: Studies on deep freezing of domestic and guinea fowl spermatozoa
