At the International Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), located in Rome (Italy), from September 2 to 6, 2024, Kamila Adyrbekova, Head of the Laboratory of Hydrobionts Genetics, is participating and made an oral report (in English) on the topic: “Artemia biodiversity in Kazakhstan” (genetic research) in the training seminar on the safeguarding salt lake artemia resourses for aquaculture. The training project is organized by FAO and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA), with the financial support of the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO) and the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) in cooperation with the International Artemia Aquaculture Consortium (IAAC).

Specialists from more than 15 countries are participating in the seminar and making expert presentations followed by a discussion where the main issue is the protection/preservation and characterization of the unique gene pool of Artemia from salt lakes and further genetic cataloguing of the species.