Report from the business trip, Dublin, B. Dzyuba, Sotnikov

Borys Dzyuba and Anatolii Sotnikov participated in an international conference CRYO 2022 of the Society for Cryobiology and Society for Low Temperature Biology held in Ireland, Dublin, 19-22 July 2022. They have presented three oral presentations (Anatolii as a speaker and Borys as an invited speaker). Presentations were about post-thaw sperm subpopulations in fishes, a new method of carp sperm cryopreservation, and international cooperation in fish sperm cryobanking. The conference has followed by a meeting with representatives of ISIS Facility, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) and Health Economics and Outcomes Research Ltd (UK). The possibilities of applying neutron scattering to study ice formation during cryopreservation and statistical methods of data analysis for multi-variate evaluation of sperm subpopulation appeared after cryopreservation in fishes were discussed. The future joint project with ISIS was drafted. The travel was performed in the frame of realization of the GACR project N 22-14069S.