A scientific seminar was held at the Institute of Botany of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly organized by the Seminar Council and the Council of Young Scientists and Experts. Yagut Yusifova, a junior researcher of the Department of Mycology, a 1st-year doctoral student of the Doctor of Philosophy program, spoke at the seminar. She gave detailed information about the 8-month research she conducted at the University of Karachi, Pakistan under the COMSTECH Consortium Excellence Scholarship on "Research on Xylotrophic Medicinal Fungi". Y. Yusifova said that during her mission, she worked in the Biotransformation laboratory under the leadership of Dr. Prof. Atia Tul-Wahab, and during the research period, she mastered the methods of thin layer chromatography (TLC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), NMR and Mass chromatography, biologically active substances of mushroom origin and their investigated its antifungal and antimicrobial effects.

In the seminar, the importance of xylotrophic fungi, the researches currently being conducted in this direction were widely discussed, and the young researcher was given new suggestions and advice for her scientific activity.