The 1st International Online Conference on Biology—“Across Levels of the Biological Organization” (Biology 2025)
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 7
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Interests: genetics; biological evolution; experimental and genome evolution; philosophy of biology; study of the human and animal microbiome under an evolutionary and system biology perspective
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From 10 to 12 February 2026, we will hold the First Online Conference of the Biology journal (https://sciforum.net/event/IOCBi2026). We have named the conference “Across Levels of the Biological Organization”. We intend for it to showcase fundamental research in biological evolution, ecology, conservation biology, marine biology, zoology, and plant science.
Taking advantage of this conference, we propose publishing the results presented here in a Special Issue of the journal Biology. However, we are aware that the conference has time limitations, so we also invite other researchers who have not presented their work at the conference to also contribute to this Special Issue.
The key topics we have in mind for this Special Issue are biological complexity, climate change, global biodiversity, host-parasite interactions, and plant adaptations.
We plan to open submissions throughout 2026, once the conference has ended in February. Submitted papers will follow the usual review procedure of the journal Biology.
Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biological complexity
- climate change
- global biodiversity
- host-parasite interactions
- plant adaptations
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