Plenary lectures
Nesrine AKKARI
3rd Zoological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria
Title: Taxonomy – from an endangered discipline towards an integrative future, with emphasis on the role of natural history collections
Vlad DINCĂ
”Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania
Title: Rediscovering European butterflies: from DNA barcoding to genomics
Jean-François FLOT
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology research unit, Department of Organismal Biology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Belgium
Title: What are species and how to delineate them – a fresh new look at a long-standing issue
Daniel R. GUSTAFSSON
Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangdong, China
Title: The present and future of chewing louse diversity
Manuel ORTIZ, Ignacio WINFIELD, Sergio CHÁZARO-OLVERA
Laboratory of Crustacea, Faculty of Higher Studies Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico
Title: An overview on the taxonomy of the benthic marine amphipod (Crustacea, Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Luis Ovidiu POPA, Costică ADAM, Oana Paula POPA, Maxim-Jean BÂLCU, Modest GUȚU
“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania
Title: Famous Romanian zoologists: Mihai Băcescu (March 28, 1908 – August 6, 1999)
László RÁKOSY
Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Taxonomy, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Forestry Faculty, “Ștefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, Romania
Title: Expansion, regression and phenological shifts in butterfly species in Romania
Laurenția UNGUREANU, Victoria NISTREANU, Galina BUȘMACHIU, Dumitru BULAT, Ion TODERAȘ
Moldova State University, Institute of Zoology, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Title: Actual status and limiting factors of rare animal species in the Republic of Moldova