Selected Papers from PROTIST-2016
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2016)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The international forum, “Protist-2016”, will take place in Moscow, Russia, from 6–10 June, 2016.
Four international events will be held within the framework of the forum:
- Annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists (ISOP)
- 21st meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP)
- 1st International Symposium on Soil Protistology
- 5th Russian conference on the ecology of free-living protists in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Please find all the programme details, registration and abstract submission on the congress website at http://onlinereg.ru/protist-2016
The conference will cover a range of fundamental and applied topics in Protistology.
Major focuses:
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Taxonomy, systematics and DNA barcoding
- Genomics and molecular biology
- Cell biology
- Organismal biology
- Parasitology
- Diversity and biogeography
- Ecology of soil protists
- Ecology of aquatic protists
- Bioindicators and Palaeoecology
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Moscow Forum, "PROTIST–2016", in Russia in 2016!
Prof. Igor V. Dovgal
Guest Editor
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