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The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Diversity
Biodiversity of Animals, Plants and Microorganisms
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Diversity series
15–17 Oct 2024
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Animal Diversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Marine Diversity, Microbial Diversity, Culture Collections, Phylogeny, Evolution, Plant Diversity
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Abstract submission is closed, but registrations are still open. Register now and join us for insightful discussions and valuable networking opportunities.
IECD 2024 is free to participate, so take advantage and secure your spot today!
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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
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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
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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
Interests: molecular evolution; dynamic of communities and populations; plant–insect interactions, ecology; tools: mitochondrial DNA; ISSR; cuticular hydrocarbons; field ecology; model organisms: lepidoptera; diptera; spiders
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Prof. Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarek
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Interests: tardigrade taxonomy; diversity; ecology and physiology; anhydrobiosis; integrative taxonomy; tardigrade microbiome; astrobiology
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Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione
ICL, Junia, Université Catholique de Lille, LITL, F-59000 Lille, France
Interests: plant biology; ecological, biological and chemical traits; vegetation; ecosystems analysis and dynamics; conservation; restoration ecology; land and natural resources management; traditional uses and new applications
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Dr. Paulo Vale
Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Sea and Marine Resources Department (DMRM), Lisbon, Portugal
Researcher specialized in marine toxinology, mainly resorting to liquid chromatography for detection of marine biotoxins in both microalgae and bivalve molluscs. Detection techniques involve diode array, fluorescence and mass spectrometry coupling. Additional techniques include immunoassays (ELISA, LFIC) and enzyme inhibition assays. Toxins studied: dinophysistoxins, pectenotoxins, azaspiracids, domoic acid and saxitoxins. Area of study: Portugal. Other research areas include: Microalgae culture; Cytotoxicity assays; Monitoring programmes; Food Safety; Public Health; Photobiology; Bioelectromagnetism; Heliobiology
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Dr. Gioele Capillo
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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Prof. Dr. Xiaoyulong Chen
College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
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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
Samantha Chandranath Karunarathna works at the Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P.R. China as a professor. Samantha has vast experience in fungal taxonomy, phylogeny, and their economic importance. Samantha has published over 200 SCI publications (h-index = 44, Citations= 12,000) related to fungal taxonomy and phylogeny. Samantha received the Yunnan Talent and Friendship Awards in 2022, and he was recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists in 2022 and 2023, according to the rankings by Stanford University.
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Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pagnotta
Department of Sciences and Technology for Agriculture, Forest, Environment and Energy - Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy.
Event Committee Members
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Département de Biologie, Laboratoire Ecodiv - Université de Rouen Normandie, F-76821, Mont Saint Aignan cedex, France.
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Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers, State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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School of Biology and Environmental Sciences and UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Laboratory of Mammalian ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Department of Biology, Science and Art Faculty, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.
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Institute of Research for Agriculture Economy and Rural Development, Bucharest, Romania.
National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
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Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems – Area of Zoology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
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Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Arcavacata CS, Italia.
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A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Russia.
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National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP), CONICET, IIMyC Benthos, Mar del Plata, Argentina
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Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia.
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CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy
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Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy
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Departamento de Ecologia Evolutiva, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Museo National de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) , Madrid, Spain.
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University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
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Center for Biological Data Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
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Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Department of Animal Biology, Parasitology, Ecology, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
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Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, USDA-ARS, Griffin, USA.
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Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
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Center for Climate Change Research, University of Toronto (ONRamp at UTE), Toronto, Canada
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Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
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Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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Laboratory of Algology, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Biology, Espinardo Campus, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Department of Mycology and Genetics, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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Ecology and Environment Research Centre and Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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Department of Clothing Technology and Garment Engineering, Berlin University of Applied Sciences-HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco
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Department of Chemistry, Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), München, Germany
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas/Institute of Geoenergy (FORTH/IG), Greece
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MSCA Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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Laboratory of Human Microbiota–Xenobiotics Interactions, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Sanda University, Shanghai, China
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Department of Ecology and Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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Department of Marine Biology, Institute of Biology, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Keynote Speakers
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Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy,
Competence Center for Economic, Ecological and Social Sustainability, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Camilla Wellstein holds a PhD in natural sciences and is head of the research area Analysis and Management of Mountain Ecosystems and member of the governing body of the Competence Center for Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. Her research results are published in over 100 academic publications. Currently she is studying biodiversity and vegetation dynamics in the Italian Alps under the impact of climate and land-use change with a focus on endemic species, forests, high mountain ecosystems and biodiversity conservation.
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Comparative theoretical analysis of chemical reactivity properties and potential for new drugs of some marine toxins
Materials Science PhD Norma Rosario Flores-Holguín is a researcher for the Advanced Materials Research Center in Chihuahua, México. She has more than 100 papers in Scientific Journals. 12 chapters in diverse editorials and more than 40 International Congress contributions. She is manager of the Molecular Modelling and Computational Chemistry Laboratory, where there are carried out projects with theoretical methods of design of nanocarriers for drugs. Searching for compounds with potential as precursors for novel drugs and design of molecular systems for photovoltaic solar cells. Currently her research group has theoretically explored some marine toxins, in an attempt to find a relationship between reactivity properties and potential of these compounds as new drugs.
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: 1̶5̶ ̶J̶u̶n̶e̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶4̶ 31 July 2024.
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 1̶5̶ ̶J̶u̶l̶y̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶4̶ 10 September 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 abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
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.
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.
Publication Opportunities
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Diversity in Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
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.
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
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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.
S1. Animal Diversity
We welcome researches with all aspects of animal diversity, from evolution, to phylogeny, adaptation, and conservation, from the species up to community interactions with ecosystems to participate in the conference. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to:
- Animal Diversity and Diversity Preservation
- Systematics, taxonomy and phylogeny
- Evolution and Ecology
- Population genetics and ecology
- General Aspects of Animal Diversity Assessment
- Freshwater Animal Diversity
- Environmental DNA
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. Łukasz Kaczmarek, Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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S2. Biodiversity Conservation
The purpose of this session is to discuss recent advances and weaknesses in the study of ecosystems, environments and biodiversity as applied to human impact, conservation and other types of management.
We welcome the contributions of researchers who study all aspects related to scientific methodologies, description, observation, experimentation, modeling and analysis, as well as contributions regarding ethics, the management of conflicts in the use of natural resources, principles and theory.
Session Chair
Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione, ICL, Junia, Université Catholique de Lille, LITL, F-59000 Lille, France
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S3. Marine Diversity
The aim of this session is to discuss recent advances in the exploration of Marine Diversity, from intertidal to deep Sea environments. The session will focus on different aspects of Marine Diversity, from species to their potential sustainable and innovative uses.
We welcome contributions from researchers studying all aspects of Marine Diversity, including but not limiting to:
- Taxonomy
- Alien and/or Invasive Species
- Intraspecific variability
- Interspecific relationships
- Morpho-functional adaptation of marine species to peculiar environments
- Methodological approaches to the study of Marine Diversity
- Effects of pollution on Marine Diversity
- Identification of bioactive compounds from marine organisms
- Marine-derived ingredients for cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, marine-derived functional foods and nutritional supplements
- Marine natural products with activity against human, animal and plant diseases
- Marine natural products with insecticidal or herbicidal activities
- Biomaterials of marine origin
Keywords: Biodiversity; morphology; taxonomy; behavior; systematics; adaptation; bioactive compounds; biomaterials
Session Chairs
Dr. Paulo Vale, Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Sea and Marine Resources Department (DMRM), Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Gioele Capillo, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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S4. Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections
In view of the pressures of climate change, questions on how microbial diversity might be affected are timely and persistent. Predictions regarding the loss of microbial diversity are difficult to make, as the evidence and data on the true existence of microorganisms at different niches are patchy. If microorganisms cannot adapt to new environmental conditions, they will be replaced with ones that can. Microorganisms that cannot alter their metabolisms are susceptible to habitat disturbances. The impact of geographical, environmental, geological and climate changes on microflora can only be understood with continuous surveys using modern molecular tools, as well as by culturing the key representatives of microbial diversity and preserving them in culture collections, which play a key role in the preservation of new representatives from these changing ecosystems.
We welcome researchers to share more opinions on microbial diversity and culture collections.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Xiaoyulong Chen, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
S5. Phylogeny and Evolution
Phylogeny, the evolution history of a species or group, is a crucial concept, especially the lines of ancestry and relationships among broad organism groups. It reveals the profound truth that different plant or animal species, despite their apparent differences, are all descended from common ancestors. However, the evidence for such relationships is often incomplete. Most species that have ever lived are extinct, and only a fraction of their remains have been preserved in the fossil record. This leads to the emergence of multiple phylogenies, all based on indirect evidence. However, there is a universal agreement on the significance of the tree of life, which results from the descendants of earlier ancestors. This understanding underscores the paramount importance of accurate phylogenies, which are discoverable and essential for our comprehensive understanding of the tree of life.
This section focuses on the phylogeny and evolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Keywords: animal evolution and phylogeny; bacteria; evolution and phylogeny of microorganisms; fungi; plant evolution; plant phylogeny.
Session Chair
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
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S6. Plant Diversity
Plant diversity is a fundamental characteristic of life on Earth, encompassing a vast range of plant species with unique shapes, sizes and functions. Plants provide oxygen, food and habitat for many life forms, playing a crucial role in Earth's ecosystems. Plant diversity is the result of millions of years of evolution and adaptation to environmental conditions, which have produced an extraordinary variety of species.
This section focuses on the plant diversity issues which include, the evaluation of plant diversity (at the three levels: morphological, biochemical, and molecular), its conservation (in situ and/or ex situ); aspects related to population genetics and genotype by environmental interaction, the plant adaptation to climatic changes, the interactions among plants and ecosystems.
Keywords: Plant Diversity; germplasm; assessment of genetic diversity; Ecology; climatic changes.
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Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pagnotta, Department of Sciences and Technology for Agriculture, Forest, Environment and Energy - Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy. orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5436-3478
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