Newsletter of INRA Bordeaux, UMR 1332 Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie reports on the work of a young scientist of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies. A former PhD student of the University of Bordeaux, and currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies of ANAS Gulnara Balakishieva is on a scientific trip and conducts a research at INRA Bordeaux, UMR 1332 Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie within the framework of the “Mobility-8” grant program of the Science Development Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.