On September  13, Habibeh Jabbari the research fellow of Maragheh University, the Islamic Republic of Iran was a guest at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies. The guest got acquainted with laboratories and researches. After receiving her bachelor's degree from Tabriz University in 1999, Habibeh Jabbari Ghazani continued her master’s degree and defended master's thesis in 2006 and doctoral thesis in 2015 at the same university. The scientist’s research is mainly in plant nematology. Habibeh Jabbari Ghazani gave a seminar on “Nematodes are useful and harmful organisms! What do we know about them?”.  She noted that nematology in the Islamic Republic of Iran is a developing field of science and noted that research in this area was more feasible with the establishment of the Iranian Nematology Society in 2016. Her report was met with great interest by seminar participants.

Then the research fellow of the laboratory of the Computational structural biology Rafiga Masmaliyeva gave information about her scientific trip to Vienna, Austria on 18-23 August. The purpose of the trip was participating in the 32^nd Europe crystallography conference held at the Vienna University. R.Masmaliyeva presented a poster on “Validation of macromolecular structures using statistical analysis and atomic displacement parameters”.

Then the 2^nd year master student Leyla Khalilova provided information about her participation in the 10^th international conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainable Development” held in Sankt Petersburg and a scientific trip to the Institute of Fundamental Problems of Biology of Russia Academy of Sciences to conduct research related to the master's thesis. The trip was carried out within the framework of the scientific research program on the development of artificial solar energy based on biometric models of the photosynthesis process, approved by the Presidium of ANAS No. 5/9 dated 15.03.2017.