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The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy

Boom Or Doom? Taxonomy In The 21st Century

Part of the International Online Conference on Taxonomy series
3–4 December 2025
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
Abstract Submission Deadline
7 August 2025
Abstract Acceptance Notification
2 October 2025

Registration Deadline
27 November 2025

Advances in Molecular Systematics, Microbial Taxonomy, Animal Taxonomy, Plant Taxonomy, Old fossils - New Taxonomy
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Welcome from the Chair

Dear colleagues,

It is a pleasure to announce the 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy (IOCTX 2025), proudly organized by the MDPI open-access journal Taxonomy. The IOCTX2025 will be held online from 3–4 December 2025. 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 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 - Sessions of the conference will be organized around the following topics:

  • Advances in Molecular Systematics;
  • Microbial Taxonomy;
  • Animal Taxonomy;
  • Plant Taxonomy;
  • "Paleotaxonomy".

Conference Format: our conference will exclusively accept abstract submissions. Upon acceptance, we will notify you before the conference via a separate email regarding whether there will be the opportunity to be the selected speaker to give an oral presentation. In addition, we strongly encourage all authors to upload and display their posters on the conference website, enabling attendees to share their insights and feedback with other participants through the Comments Section provided at the bottom of each page.

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.

Awards and Opportunities: participants who win the best oral presentation award or best poster award will receive a prize of CHF 200, along with an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Taxonomy.

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.

I hope you will join this e-conference to exchange ideas, begin fruitful collaborations, and make the IOCTX2025 a great success.

Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Mathias Harzhauser
Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Chair of the 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy

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Event Chair

Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Introduction
Bio
Mathias Harzhauser is a Professor at the Geological-Paleontological Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD from the University of Graz and specializes in mollusca, paleobiogeography, paleogeography, and stratigraphy. His research focuses on fossil mollusks to reconstruct ancient environments and biogeographical patterns. Prof. Harzhauser is the Chair of the IUGS Subcommission on GeoCollections and received the 2024 Science Award of Lower Austria for his contributions to paleontology. He is affiliated with the Natural History Museum Vienna, where he continues his research and academic work in geosciences.

Session Chair

Dr. Matthias Sipiczki

Department of Genetics and Applied Microbiology, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary

Introduction
Bio
Professor of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Founder and head (for 25 years) of the Department of Genetics and Applied Microbiology of the University. Dean and vicechancellor of the University. In the meantime: visiting professor of the Chiba University (Japan) and the Bordeaux University (France). Honorary member of the Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology. Member of organising committees of numerous ISSY and other international scientific meetings. Research interest: genetics, molecular taxonomy, diversity and phylogenesis of yeasts; wine yeasts and antimicrobial antagonism of yeasts. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthias-Sipiczki
Session
S2. Microbial Taxonomy

PD Dr. Davit Vasilyan

JURASSICA Museum, Route de Fontenais 21, 2900 Porrentruy, Switzerland

Introduction
Bio
Davit Vasilyan is a senior lecturer and researcher at the JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland. His research focuses on different aspects of the Cenozoic continental ectothermic vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles), such as taxonomy, paleoecology, palaeobiogeographic patterns and their paleoclimatic applications. https://www.jurassica.ch/en/Science/Scientific-team/PD-Dr-DV/PD-Dr-Davit-Vasilyan.html
Session
S5. "Paleotaxonomy"

Event Committee

Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Snc, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
research in taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Coleoptera Chrysomelidae; relationships leaf beetles–host plants; species distribution modelling; ecological niche modelling; conservation biology

Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
lichenology, taxonomy, biodiversity informatics.

Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Introduction
Research Keywords
mycology, fungal biodiversity, fungal taxonomy, molecular systematics, DNA barcoding

Laboratory of Zoological Collections, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, 05503-900 SP, Brazil

Introduction
Research Keywords
Herpetology; Snakes; Taxonomy; Systematic; Geographic distribution, Conservation; Morphology

Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
taxonomy; systematics; vertebrate biology; herpetology; comparative anatomy; conservation biology; biodiversity

Department of Biology and Geobiotec–Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Centre, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Introduction
Research Keywords
diatom ecology and taxonomy; community structure diversity and individual valve teratologies; freshwater quality assessment

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA,
Honorary Research Associate, South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda 6139, South Africa

Introduction
Bio
I am a Distinguished Professor of Ichthyology and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. My research centers on the alpha taxonomy of freshwater fishes from Africa, Central America, and North America. Since 2021, I have described 4 species in the genus Serranochromis from Angola Stauffer, et al 2021), two species of bubble-nesting fishes from Angola (Skelton et al 2021), two new shell-dwelling fishes from Lake Malawi (Miller et al. 2021), an elongate species from Lake Malawi (Stauffer and Konings 2023), a rock-dwelling cichlid that reinvaded the sand in Lake Malawi ( Konings et el. 2024), and a new species of bass from Lake Erie (Ross and Stauffer 2024). I continued my work on the native fauna of Pennsylvania (Clark et al 2021, Clark et al, 2022, Stauffer et al. 2023). Additionally, I have published reviews of schistosomiasis (Madsen et al 2022, Madsen and Stauffer 2022, Madsen and Stauffer 2024). I provided tools to assess the sustainability of biodiversity (Hanson and Stauffer 2024) and provided commentaries on the determination of value of endangered fishes (Stauffer and Morgan 2022, Fischer et al. 2024), the threat of invasive fishes to native ones (Stauffer et al 2022), and the difficulties that would ensue if you changed scientific names (Stauffer 2024). https://ecosystems.psu.edu/directory/vc5
Research Keywords
Endangered fishes; freshwater fish behavior; impact of introduced fishes; systematics and zoogeography of freshwater fishes

Registration


Registration for IOCTX 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at 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 27 November 2025.

Instructions for Authors

Procedure for Submission

The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

Important Deadlines
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 7 August 2025.
2. Abstract Acceptance Notification: 2 October 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.

Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.
Abstract Submission
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 in the conference report of The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy 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.
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.
5. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the 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.
Oral Presentation and Slides Submission
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software.
Poster Gallery
Poster:
a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M
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.

All accepted submissions will be permanently displayed online in the Poster Gallery. Once your submission is accepted, you can upload your poster in the "My submission" section. Simply select the correct conference and submission, then click the upload button.
Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the authors' 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.

Copyright

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

Taxonomy Journal Publication

Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Taxonomy (ISSN: 2673-6500), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Details of the special issue will be announced here later. Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.

Proceeding Paper Publication

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCTX 2025 in Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal (ISSN: 2673-9976) after a quality check. If you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCTX 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 20 January 2026

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.

Biology and Life Sciences Forum Template

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 six awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.

The Awards
Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award

Number of Awards Available: 6

The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission 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 six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each, along with an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Taxonomy.

Sponsors and Partners

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Organizers


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Conference Secretariat

Ms. Harley Chen
Dr. Patwira Boonjing
Email: ioctx2025@mdpi.com

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