THE 25TH CONFERENCE ON SUBTERRANEAN BIOLOGY

Looking into the past to see the future of Biospeology

18 - 22 JULY 2022

The live event has ended! The recording of the sessions is available until August 22nd. Please review them below.

Thank you for your attendance! Hope you enjoyed our hybrid event! 

All the best,
Organizing Committee! 

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 Organizing Committee

Oana Teodora Moldovan        Rodica Plăiașu         Oana Paula Popa          Cristian Sitar        Valentin Kiss        Ruxandra Năstase-Bucur     

Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu        Alexandru Petculescu            Tiziana Di Lorenzo        Catalina Haidau          Raluca Ioana Băncilă        Luchiana Faur       

Traian Brad        Ionuț Cornel Mirea        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