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