Program Overview
Program Overview
IOCDV2026 Program DAY 1
Session 1. Animal Diversity
Date: 4 November
Time: 08:30 (CET, Basel) | 02:30 (EST, New York) | 15:30 (CST, Beijing)
CET Time |
Speakers |
Titles |
| 8:30-8:40 | Prof. Dr. Michael Wink | Opening Speech |
| Event Chair | ||
| 8:40-8:50 | Prof. Dr. Luc Legal | Welcome from the Session Chairs |
| Prof. Dr. Łukasz Kaczmarek | ||
| Session Chair | ||
| 8:50-9:10 | Prof. Dr. Jeffrey L. Ram | Discovering the "dark matter" of aquatic invertebrates through molecular studies of the diets of water mites. |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 9:10-9:25 | Martina Segovia | Taxonomic diversity and temporal dynamics of termites (Blattodea): a comprehensive analysis of the FACENAC biological collection. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:25-9:40 | Eleonora Cresta | Saproxylic beetle communities in beech forests with differing degrees of naturalness in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park (Central Italy): a preliminary study. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:40-9:55 | Joel Benjamin Johnson | Some notes on Doratifera quadriguttata (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) larvae and their leaf consumption. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:55-10:10 | Hector Douglas | Does the structure of tropical forests shape bird song? |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:10-10:25 | Camila Cramer Filgueiras | New approaches to understanding soil biodiversity with the Smart Soil Organism Detector. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:25-10:40 | Serban M Sarbu | Sulfidic caves in Albania – hotspots of subterranean biodiversity. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:40-10:55 | Peter Uetz | Can AI read (biodiversity) papers ... and understand its contents? |
| Selected Speaker |
Session 3. Marine Diversity
Date: 4 November
Time: 13:00 (CET, Basel) | 07:00 (EST, New York) | 20:00 (CST, Beijing)
CET Time |
Speakers |
Titles |
| 13:00-13:10 | Dr. Stuart Kininmonth | Welcome from the Session Chair |
| Session Chair | ||
| 13:10-13:30 | Prof. Dr. Frithjof C. Küpper | Seawater desalination and the marine environment: What have we learned from Cyprus and Kuwait? |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 13:30-13:45 | Francesca Neri | Long-term integrated monitoring (microscopy & metabarcoding) of phytoplankton communities at an eLTER coastal station in the northern Adriatic Sea (2018–2024). |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 13:45-14:00 | Hector Douglas | Tropical seabird response to record ocean heat at Culebra, Puerto Rico. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 14:00-14:15 | M. Paula V-Boada | False corals (Anthozoa: Corallimorpharia) from a South Caribbean upwelling area: taxonomy, microhabitat, and associated fauna. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 14:15-14:30 | Jesús Fernández-Gutiérrez | Factors affecting the distribution of fouling assemblages in seawalls of a recreational marina of northern Portugal. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 14:30-14:45 | Agostina Blanco de las Heras | Lithophytic algal diversity in a coastal supralittoral zone of Argentina: effects of rock orientation, roughness, and light exposure. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 14:45-15:00 | Airam N. Sarmiento-Lezcano | Seasonal shifts in meso- and bathypelagic fish assemblages of the Northeast Atlantic: linking biodiversity patterns to environmental gradients. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Giorgio Leonardi | Diversity and distribution patterns of ichthyoplankton assemblages in the subtropical northeastern Atlantic Ocean. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Nicolás Larrumbide-Zúñiga | Community patterns of meso- and bathypelagic marine gelatinous in the Northeast Atlantic. |
| Selected Speaker |
IOCDV2026 Program DAY 2
Session 2. Biodiversity Conservation
Date: 5 November
Time: 08:30 (CET, Basel) | 02:30 (EST, New York) | 15:30 (CST, Beijing)
CET Time |
Speakers |
Titles |
| 8:30-8:40 | Prof. Dr. Antonio Todaro | Welcome from the Session Chairs |
| Prof. Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione | ||
| Session Chair | ||
| 8:40-9:00 | Assoc. Prof. Stefano Canessa | Decision science and the conservation of biological diversity. |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 9:00-9:15 | Ilea Dubard | Study of visual responses of insect to artificial light at night. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:15-9:30 | María Margarita Arrieta-García | Do urban green areas work as biodiversity refuges? Assessing urban wildlife in a neotropical coastal city (Cartagena, Colombia). |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:30-9:45 | Matteo Dal Zotto | Conserving Emys orbicularis in the face of biological invasions: an integrated approach to freshwater turtle monitoring and management. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:45-10:00 | Maria Julia Vellasco Judson | Wildlife roadkill on Brazilian highways: ecological and human costs: evidence from DNIT's 2026 road safety and wildlife conservation report. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Małgorzata Magdalena Śliż | Annual bird diversity in a riparian forest–agricultural landscape mosaic in the Raba River valley, southern Poland. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:15-10:30 | Sofía Vargas Gómez | Irreplaceable lineages in antpittas: an integrative approach to the conservation of Grallariidae (Aves) through evolutionary diversity. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | Enrico Vito Perrino | Glasswort habitats useful as edible species in the Gargano (Southern Italy) according to Directive 92/43 EEC: management and valorization. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:45-11:00 | Khaoula Khaya | Seasonal dynamics of associated epifaunal families with the endangered fucoid Gongolaria nodicaulis along the Atlantic coast of Morocco. |
| Selected Speaker |
Session 6. Plant Diversity
Date: 5 November
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 21:00 (CST, Beijing)
| CET Time | Speakers | Titles |
| 14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pagnotta | Welcome from the Session Chairs |
| Prof. Panayiotis Dimitrakopoulos | ||
| Session Chair | ||
| 14:10-14:30 | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 14:30-14:45 | Bilal Zulfiqar | Legume-based cropping systems for biodiversity enhancement: a review of functional mechanisms for life cycle sustainability assessment. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 14:45-15:00 | Giovanni Zecca | Accounting for phylogenetic node support in medicinal plant bioprospecting. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Laura María Califano | Impact of degradation and fragmentation in plant diversity of native vegetation in agricultural matrices: a case in the Argentine Dry Chaco. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Yan Tomason | Integrating morphological diversity and machine learning-based phenotyping to advance melon (Cucumis melo L.) classification and management. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:30-15:45 | MARIA ALEJANDRA PELAEZ-MARTINEZ | Population structure and mortality of Espeletia hartwegiana Sch.Bip. ex Wedd. in the El Campanario páramo, Colombia. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 15:45-16:00 | Tyson Tebogo Mokgalabone | Morphotype-specific metabolomic signatures and trait associations in 32 accessions of underutilized African Strychnos spinosa (monkey orange) fruit. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 16:00-16:15 | Amal Abouel-Fetouh Mohamed Aly Badr | Genetic diversity of sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) genotypes revealed by simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers |
| Selected Speaker |
IOCDV2026 Program DAY 3
Session 4. Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections
Session 5. Phylogeny and Evolution
Date: 6 November
Time: 08:30 (CET, Basel) | 02:30 (EST, New York) | 15:30 (CST, Beijing)
CET Time |
Speakers |
Titles |
Session 4. Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections |
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| 8:30-8:40 | Prof. Dr. Michael Wink | Welcome from the Event Chair |
| Event Chair | ||
| 8:40-9:00 | Dr. Sarma Nandini | The importance of cultures in applied zooplankton research. |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 9:00-9:15 | Savanah Senn | Carbon utilization profiles and Nanopore 16S sequencing reveal functional divergence among strawberry rhizosphere microbiomes under alternative ground covers vs. polyethylene mulch. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 9:15-9:30 | Marek Bartoszewicz | Ecological origin rather than phylogeny shapes antimicrobial resistance in Bacillus cereus sensu lato. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
Session 5. Phylogeny and Evolution |
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| 9:30-9:40 | Prof. Dr. Matjaž Kuntner | Welcome from the Session Chair |
| Session Chair | ||
| 9:40-10:00 | Prof. Ingi Agnarsson | Stealing from giants - kleptoparasitic spiders in webs of sexually dimorphic hosts. |
| Invited Speaker | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Jürgen Kriwet | The first 50 million years of neoselachian (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) evolution. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
| 10:15-10:30 | Andrey Gabriel Santiago Souza | Biogeographic history of Serrapinnus piaba (Lütken) (Characiformes: Characidae) in the Northeastern Mata Atlântica and São Francisco freshwater ecoregions. |
| Selected Speaker | ||
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