THE 25TH CONFERENCE ON SUBTERRANEAN BIOLOGY
18 - 22 JULY 2022, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
LOOKING INTO THE PAST TO SEE THE FUTURE OF BIOSPEOLOGY
100 years of Biospeology at the 1st Institute of Speleology in the world
In 1920, Emil Racovitza was invited by the Transylvanian authorities to be a professor at the newly reorganized University in Cluj. He accepted with several conditions, one of which was the founding of an Institute of Speleology under his supervision in Cluj and with its own budget. The speleological enterprise started in 1920. After 100 years we are happy to invite you to Romania to show where we are, as an Institute, in 2020, although during the communist period the Institute changed its headquarter in București.
The conference has many facets, one encompasses the scientific and the historical dimensions and others are about the beauties of karst and caves in Transylvania, our traditions, food, and wines.
THE ORGANIZERS
International Society for Subterranean Biology
Cluj, Romania
Emil Racovitza Institute of Speleology
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Oana Teodora Moldovan Ruxandra Năstase-Bucur Raluca Ioana Băncilă
Rodica Plăiașu Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu Luchiana Faur
Oana Paula Popa Alexandru Petculescu Traian Brad
Cristian Sitar Tiziana Di Lorenzo Ionuț Cornel Mirea Valentin Kiss Catalina Haidau Mihail Theodorescu
THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Jana Bedek
Elina Bichuette
Ana Isabel Camacho
David Culver
Elżbieta Dumnicka
Annette Summers Engel
Arnaud Faille
Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
Cene Fišer
Stuart Halse
Francis Howarth
William Jeffery
Ľubomír Kováč
Stefano Mammola
Meredith Protas
Alberto Sendra
José G. Palacios-Vargas