8-9 MAY 2026

TOPICS: 

  • Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
  • Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 
  • Earth Sciences and Ecosystem Dynamics 

COMMUNICATION TYPES

ORAL PRESENTATIONS  (15 minutes) or POSTERS (A0 size, portrait layout) – recommended language: English

 

REGISTRATION

Registration is open from 2nd February to 31st March 2026

To register, please complete the form and upload the following documents:
– Abstract
– Proof of payment
– Proof of student status*

The registration form available HERE

Download the abstract template .doc

 

PARTICIPATION FEES

Will be paid exclusively via bank account *Students will send proof of their current status (e.g. student ID) Fees are not refundable.

  • 200 RON(PhD holders and senior researchers)
  • 75 RON (Undergraduate, Master’s and PhD students, audience members)

Included in the fee: coffee breaks, lunch and snacks, conference map, e-certificate of attendance

If you need a receipt after paying the conference fee, please email us at biota.fbg.ubb@gmail.com

 

Bank account details

  • IBAN: RO74BTRLRONCRT0297391401
  • Beneficiary: Organizația Studenților pentru Natura Address: 44, Republicii Street, Postal Code: 400015 CIF : 21422601
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Invited speakers

Dr. Anders Götherström

Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden

Anders Götherström earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Stockholm University in 2001, with a dissertation on archaeogenetics conducted within a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond that focused on the Vendel and Viking periods in the Mälaren Valley. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2001–2002), where his research centered on the domestication of horses and livestock.

For the next decade, he led a research group at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, working primarily on the archaeogenetics of prehistoric humans. The team was especially engaged in understanding the Neolithic transition, the spread of farming and animal husbandry across Europe.

In 2012, Götherström returned to the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University, where his research moved to latter periods such as the Vendel, Viking, and medieval periods. He is one of the founders of the Centre for Palaeogenetics, a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Established in 2020, the Centre has become a leading force in ancient DNA research.

Among his key scientific contributions are:

  1. being an early adopter of next-generation sequencing technologies in ancient DNA research and adapting laboratory protocols to these methods;
  2. helping to demonstrate that the Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by gene flow, through a series of publications that include Malmström et al. (2009), Skoglund et al. (2012, 2014), Omrak et al. (2016), and Kılınç et al. (2016); and
  3. leading the group that first identified the genetic diversity revealing high mobility and gene flow in the Viking world, first published in Krzewińska et al. (2018).Götherström’s current research primarily focuses on the Late Iron Age, Viking Age, and medieval periods.
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Dr. Ferenc Jordán

Dr, Institute of Biological Research in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Associated Researcher at Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy

Ferenc Jordán is Hungarian biologist, systems ecologist (PhD 1999, ELTE, Budapest). His main interest is ecological networks including food webs, animal social networks and landscape connectivity graphs, among others. He was Branco Weiss Fellow in Collegium Budapest, Principal Investigator at The Microsoft Research – COSBI in Trento, Italy and Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany. He worked also for the Center for Ecological Research in Hungary and led a project at the University of Parma in Italy. Presently he is Group Leader in Institute of Biological Research in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Associated Researcher at Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy. He serves on several panels and editorial boards and recently increasingly active in science communication.

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Dr. Roey Angel

Dr. rer. nat. Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

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Dr. György Less

Professor, University of Miskolc, Hungary

After completing his primary and secondary schools in Miskolc (Hungary), he graduated as a geologist from the Moscow Geological University in 1977. His first job was at the Geological Institute of Hungary, where he worked until 2005. He then moved to the Institute of Mineralogy and Geology of the University of Miskolc, where he became a professor in 2010. He obtained his PhD degree in 1993, from the R. Eötvös University of Science (Budapest). In 2008, he habilitated at the University of Miskolc, and in the same year he also obtained the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His professional activities are two-fold. One is geological mapping, in the framework of which he worked in Aggtelek-Rudabánya and Bükk Mts. (NE Hungary) and in Central Libya. As a result, new geological maps and explanatory booklets about these areas were published under his leadership. The other major direction is the study of Eurasian Paleogene larger foraminifera (giant unicellulars). The most outstanding achievement is the monographic revision of orthophragmines previously considered stratigraphically worthless using extensive European material. The stratigraphic subdivision he developed was incorporated into the Tethyan Paleocene-Eocene shallow benthic zonation based on larger foraminifera. He has received a total of 3103 independent citations for his 220 published publications.

 

 

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Preliminary Program
8th May – Oral Presentations and Posters
9th May – Workshop or Excursion (to be announced)

Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, 5-7 Clinicilor Street, 400 006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Partners

Sponsors

Faculty of Biology and Geology together with:

  • Centre for Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources
  • Doctoral School of Integrative Biology
  • Doctoral School of Teoretical and Aplied Geology
  • Emil G. Racoviță Institute – For the study of life in extreme conditions
  • The Research Center for Integrated Geological Studies
  • Students Organisation for Nature (OSpN)

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dorina Podar | Beatrice Kelemen | Zoltán László | Ioana Meleg | Florin Crișan | Irina Goia | Sanda Iepure | Emilia Licărete | Ioan Tanțău | Raluca Haitonic | Cristina Mircea | Cristea Adorjan | Lucian Alexandru Teodor | Abrudan Anastasia | Petrișor Alexandru | Ilie Diana | Bogyor Agota | Dobrescu Matei | Cazan Ioana | Boghean Smaranda | Bilț Daria | Oană Sergiu | Francesca Sabău 

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Horia Banciu | Beatrice Kelemen | Zoltán László | Irina Goia | Ioan Tanțău |Pap Péter-Laszlo| Anca Farkas | Rahela Carpa 

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