NordGen Farm Animals has assisted FAO with the new FAO Guidelines “Innovations in cryoconservation of animal genetic resources”. During the year, a series of ten webinars based on the chapters in the draft FAO Guidelines will be arranged by FAO in collaboration with NordGen Farm Animals.

On this website, the recorded webinars will be available. The first webinar (held on May 18^th) was titled “Building a gene bank strategy”. This webinar addressed section 1 and was presented by the lead authors, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Sipke Hiemstra and Harvey Blackburn.

The recording of webinar 1 (sec1) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 1 (sec 1) is available here. 

The recording of webinar 1 (sec 1) in French (part 1) is available here.

The recording of webinar 1 (sec 1) in French (part 2) is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 1 can be found below:

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations 1

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations 1 French

The second webinar (held on May 24^th) was presented by Dr Phil Purdy and was titled “Choice of biological material to be preserved”. This webinar addressed section 3 in the FAO guidelines.

The recording of webinar 2 (sec 3) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 2 (sec 3) is available here.

The presentation files from webinar 2 can be found below:

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations2

The third webinar (held on June 1^th) was presented by Dominic Moran, Rafael De Oliveria Silva och Carl Lessard and was titled “Economics of gene banking”. This webinar addressed section 4 in the FAO guidelines.

The recording of webinar 3 (sec 4) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 3 (sec 4) is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 3 can be found below:

Cryoconservation Webinar Presentations 3

The fourth webinar (held on June 15^th) was presented by Alessandra Stella and Yang Hongjie. The webinar was titled “Databases and documentation” and addressed section 8 in the FAO guidelines.

The recording of webinar 4 (sec 8) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 4 (sec 8) is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 4 can be found below:

Cryoconservation Webinar Presentations 4

The fifth webinar (held on June 28th) addressed section 5 in the guidelines (titled “Developing and using gene bank collections”) and section 2 (“Implementation and organization in FAO”).

The recording of webinar 5 part 1 (sec. 5) is available here.

The recording of webinar 5 part 2 (sec. 2) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 5 is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 5 can be found here:

Cryoconservation Webinar Presentation 5 part 1 (sec5)

Cryoconservation Webinar Presentation 5 part 2 (sec2)

The sixth webinar (held on July 5th) addressed section 7 in the guidelines (titled “Sanitary Issues and Recommendations”) and was presented by Beate Berger.

The recording of webinar 6 (sec 7) is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 6 is available here. 

The recording of webinar 6 (sec 7) in Spanish is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 6 can be found here:

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations 6

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations 6 Spanish

The seventh webinar (held on December 1th) addressed section 9 in the guidelines (titled “Legal issues: acquisition, storage and transfer of gene bank material”) and was presented by Harvey D. Blackburn, Dayo G. Kossigan, Elzbieta Martyniuk, Vera Matlova and Fernando Tejerina Ampudia.

The recording of webinar 7 is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 7 is available here.

The presentation files from webinar 7 can be found here:

Cryconservation Webinar Presentations 7

The eight webinar (held on December 12th) addressed section 6 in the guidelines (titled “Collection and cryopreservation of germ plasm and tissues”) and was presented by Jon Oatley (Washington State University) and Phil Purdy (National Animal Germplasm Program, USDA-ARS) from the United States and Kriszti Liptói (Institute for Small AnimaI Research and Co-ordination Centre for Gene Conservation) from Hungary.

The recording of webinar 8 is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 8 is available here.

The presentation files from webinar 8 can be found here:

Cryconservation Webinar 8 Presentation files.

The ninth webinar (held on February 28th) adressed section 10 in the guidelines (titled “Capacity building and training in FAO Guidelines: Innovations in cryoconservation of animal genetic resources”). The webinar included the following speakers: Paul Boettcher (FAO), Michèle Boichard (France), Badr Benjelloun (Morocco), Lilian Vilamoor (Philippines – recording), Samuel Paiva (Brazil) and Harvey Blackburn (USA).

The recording of webinar 9, part 1, is available here.

The recording of webinar 9, part 2, is available here.

The Q&A from webinar 9 is available here. 

The presentation files from webinar 8 can be found here:

Cryoconservation Webinar 9 Presentation files. 

The following topics will be covered in the ten webinars on cryoconservation:

1. Building a gene bank strategy
2. Implementation and organization
3. Choice of biological material to be preserved
4. Economics of gene banking
5. Developing and using gene bank collections
6. Collection and cryopreservation of germ plasm and tissues
7. Sanitary issues and recommendations
8. Databases and documentation
9. Legal issues: acquisition, storage and transfer of gene bank material
10. Capacity building and training

See Calendar for current webinars with links. For more information, please contact NordGen Farm Animal’s Section Leader, Mervi Honkatukia at mervi.honkatukia@nordgen.org.