The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Diversity
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Diversity
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Diversity series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
15th June 2024
15th July 2024
10th October 2024
Animal Diversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Marine Diversity, Microbial Diversity, Culture Collections, Phylogeny, Evolution, Plant Diversity
IECD 2024 will be FREE for Participation!
Join us today to register and submit your abstract, and be part of cutting-edge discussions and networking opportunities!
Welcome from the Chair
Dear colleagues,
We are thrilled to extend a warm welcome to you for the upcoming third International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2024), proudly sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Diversity. In line with our commitment to fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, this electronic conference provides a unique platform for researchers to showcase their work, discuss groundbreaking findings, and engage in meaningful conversations with fellow experts.
Conference Overview: This will be a virtual conference held at sciforum.net, a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize and provide technical support for electronic conferences. The virtual format offers the distinct advantage of eliminating the need for travel and its associated expenses, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the conference without any logistical constraints.
Key Themes: The conference will span various key themes, including the following:
- Animal diversity;
- Biodiversity conservation;
- Marine diversity;
- Microbial diversity and culture collections;
- Phylogeny and evolution;
- Plant diversity.
Conference Format: After abstract acceptance, authors are invited to submit a pre-recorded video presentation or a series of narrated slides. These materials will be accessible online, and open for discussion, comments, and questions during the entire conference. Additionally, presentations will remain available after the e-conference concludes. Authors are encouraged to submit a full description of their work in a conference paper, which will undergo peer review. The accepted papers will likely be published in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal. However, paper submission is not a requirement for active conference participation.
Free of Charge Participation: We are pleased to inform you that participation in this conference is entirely free of charge for both authors and attendees. The accepted proceedings papers will likely be published in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal, available online on the MDPI website. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in a Special Issue of the journal Diversity with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (ISSN 1424-2818; Diversity).
Awards and Opportunities: The best oral presentation awards and best poster awards will receive an award of CHF 200, along with an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Diversity.
We encourage you to explore the conference platform and guidelines provided in advance for a seamless experience. Should you have any queries or require assistance, our dedicated support team is available to ensure your participation is smooth and rewarding.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference and contribute to the vibrant intellectual exchange that makes events like IECD 2024 truly exceptional.
Event Chair
Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink completed his PhD in 1980 at Technische Universität Braunschweig. He is currently a senior professor at Heidelberg University, within the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and is a visiting professor at CEPROBI, the Prince of Songkla University and Northeast Forestry University. He works in the areas of natural products, chemical ecology, medicinal and poisonous plants, molecular pharmacology, biotechnology, evolution (molecular systematics, phylogeny, phylogeography of plants and animals), and ornithology. To date, he has authored or coauthored more than 1200 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in Chief of Diversity.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Luc Legal
Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, UMR 5245 (CNRS-UPS-INPT) Batiment IVR1/Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, CEDEX 9, F-31062 Toulouse, France
Prof. Dr. Xiaoyulong Chen
College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pagnotta
Department of Sciences and Technology for Agriculture, Forest, Environment and Energy - Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy.
Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione
Faculté de Gestion, Economie et Sciences, Université Catholique de Lille, France.
Prof. Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarek
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Prof. Dr. Nigel Barker
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Dr. Samantha C. Karunarathna
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
Event Committee Members
Département de Biologie, Laboratoire Ecodiv - Université de Rouen Normandie, F-76821, Mont Saint Aignan cedex, France.
Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers, State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
School of Biology and Environmental Sciences and UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Laboratory of Mammalian ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
Department of Biology, Science and Art Faculty, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.
Institute of Research for Agriculture Economy and Rural Development, Bucharest, Romania.
National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems – Area of Zoology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Arcavacata CS, Italia.
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Russia.
National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP), CONICET, IIMyC Benthos, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia.
CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy
Departamento de Ecologia Evolutiva, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Museo National de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) , Madrid, Spain.
University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Department of Animal Biology, Parasitology, Ecology, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, USDA-ARS, Griffin, USA.
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
Center for Climate Change Research, University of Toronto (ONRamp at UTE), Toronto, Canada
Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
Registration
The registration for IECD 2024 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 10 October 2024.
Instructions for Authors
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 June 2024.
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 15 July 2024. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI’s Proceedings series journals (ISSN: 2504-3900) after quality check. If you wish to publish a research article in the journal, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
3. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
4. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
- You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
You are welcome to submit a proceeding paper (4-8 pages) to MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976) after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.
Proceedings submission deadline: 1 December 2024
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title.
Full author names.
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
Abstract.
Keywords.
Introduction.
Methods.
Results and Discussion.
Conclusions.
Acknowledgements.
References.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 4 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be four winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive an award of CHF 200, along with an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Diversity.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Mejoe Wang
Ms. Adelina Platon
Email: iecd2024@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
