The last meeting of the Scientific Council in 2019 was held at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies on December 20.  At the meeting reports on the leading research fellow of the Bioadaptation laboratory, PhD, associate professor Samira Rustamova’s scientific trip to the University of Bonn, Germany and junior research fellow of the Proteomics laboratory Aynura Pashayeva’s scientific trip to the Pusan National University, South Korea were listened. Some issues like holding of the 60^th anniversaries and 40^th year of scientific activities of the deputy director on scientific affairs, PhD, associate professor Alamdar Mammadov, PhD Ismayil Zulfugarov, Head of the Photobioenergetics laboratory, doctor of biological sciences Yashar Feyziyev and other organizational issues were discussed.