On September 5, the discussion of the dissertation submitted by Ayten Aghayeva, a senior researcher of the international laboratory of Molecular biotechnology of IMBB to receive a Ph.D. degree in biology in the specialties 2415.01 - "Molecular biology" and 2422.01 - "Biotechnology (including bionanotechnologies)” was held at the scientific seminar under the one-time defense council ED 1.25. Academician Irada Huseynova and Professor Vidadi Yusibov, Head of the Institute's international laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology, research director of the Indiana Biosciences Institute, are the scientific supervisors of the dissertation work on "Study of bacteria isolated from oil-contaminated soils of Azerbaijan for antibiotic activity". Dissertation work was performed at Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology. After the applicant explained in detail the main provisions of the dissertation, extensive discussions were held on the topic. Based on the voting results, a decision was made to release Ayten Aghayeva's dissertation to the main defense.