The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy
The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy
Boom Or Doom? Taxonomy In The 21st Century
Part of the International Online Conference on Taxonomy series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
7 August 2025
2 October 2025
27 November 2025
Advances in Molecular Systematics, Microbial Taxonomy, Animal Taxonomy, Plant Taxonomy, Old fossils - New Taxonomy
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
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 Chairs
Dr. Matthias Sipiczki
Department of Genetics and Applied Microbiology, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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
S2. Microbial Taxonomy
PD Dr. Davit Vasilyan
JURASSICA Museum, Route de Fontenais 21, 2900 Porrentruy, Switzerland
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
S5. "Paleotaxonomy"
Event Committee
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Snc, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
research in taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of Coleoptera Chrysomelidae; relationships leaf beetles–host plants; species distribution modelling; ecological niche modelling; conservation biology
lichenology, taxonomy, biodiversity informatics.
mycology, fungal biodiversity, fungal taxonomy, molecular systematics, DNA barcoding
Laboratory of Zoological Collections, Butantan Institute,
São Paulo, 05503-900 SP, Brazil
Herpetology; Snakes; Taxonomy; Systematic; Geographic distribution, Conservation; Morphology
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
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
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
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
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.
2. Abstract Acceptance Notification: 2 October 2025.
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.
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.
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, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- 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. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
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.
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 (to be updated), 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.
Please click HERE (to be updated) to submit your proceeding paper to the Biology and Life Sciences Forum.
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
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
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Harley Chen
Dr. Patwira Boonjing
Email: ioctx2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
