A meeting between IRRI and Q-quatics was held on 15 January 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the IRRI Khush Hall conference room in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines to discuss and initiate possible collaborations in the area of rice-cum-fish.
At the meeting, Q-quatics was represented by Cornelia Nauen (Chair of the Board of Trustees), Ma. Lourdes Palomares (Scientific Director and Board of Trustee), Mary Ann Bimbao (Executive Director), Emily Capuli (Taxonomy Theme Lead), Josephine Barile (IT Theme Lead), and Susan Luna (Assistant to the Executive Director and Team Lead for Traits). On the other hand, representatives from IRRI include Romeo Recide (IRRI Philippines Country Representative), Sudhir Yadav (IRRI Cluster Leader for Water, Soil and Environment), Oliver Frith (Head of Business Development) and Grant Singleton (IRRI Consultant and former IRRI Cluster Leader of Adaptive Agronomy and Pest Ecology).