2024, 16-20 September –
IAA24 – Symposium of the International
Association of Astacology,
Zagreb, Croatia
Scientific committee member.
Co-author:
- Reassessing crayfish conservation: collaborative updates of
Austropotamobius species IUCN status
- Conservation and management strategies of the endemic idle
crayfish (Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu, 2019):
Lessons from long-term monitoring
Abstracts
2023, 2-4 November –
Ecology and Ecosystems Protection, XIV-th Edition,
”Vasile Alecsandri” University, Bacău,
Romania
Presentations:
- Towards protecting an endemic
crayfish species in Romania: distribution, conservation status and
threats
2023, 5-8 September – CrayfIT
A regional European IAA meeting,
organized by Life CLAW, Pavia, Italy
Presentations:
- Conservation genomics of endemic crayfish species
Austropotamobius bihariensis populations using reduced
representation sequencing
- Reference genomes for non-model
invertebrates: Giant genome sequencing of the endangered
Austropotamobius bihariensis
- Contrasting endemic and cosmopolitan
patterns in the evolution of Austropotamobius crayfish
lineages
- Towards protecting an endemic crayfish
species in Romania: distribution, conservation status and threats
Abstracts
2022, 12-14 October –
The International Scientific Communications
Session of the „Țării Crișurilor” Museum Complex, Oradea.
Interferences. Past, Present, Future,
Oradea, Romania
Presentation:
- Hidden in plain sight: A journey on plate tectonics of the Apuseni
Mountains revealed a new European crayfish species
Abstracts
2022, 20-25 June –
IAA23 – Symposium of the International
Association of Astacology,
Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
Presentation:
- Towards real-time global mapping of crayfish species and crayfish
plague occurrence
Co-author:
- Force and boldness a side-by-side comparison of native
narrow-clawed crayfish (Pontastacus leptodactylus) and
invasive spiny-cheek crayfish (Faxonius limosus)
- Mapping the scientific research on crayfish behaviour: A
bibliometric analysis
Abstracts
2021, 15 April –
weakly seminars,
Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology Department, University of
Debrecen, Hungary
Invited speaker:
- Hidden in plain sight
2019, 27-30 August –
IAA Gotland 2019 – Crayfish and Aquaculture Conference,
Visby, Gotland, Sweden
Presentation:
- A journey on plate tectonics sheds light on European crayfish
phylogeography
Co-author:
- Get a
grip: Unusual disturbances drive crayfish to improvise
2018, 9-13 July –
International Association of Astacology (IAA)
22th Symposium,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Presentation:
- Exploring the limit and beyond of hypoxia: Behavioural‐driven
conservation of an ancestral legacy of freshwater crayfish
Co-author:
- Are
soil properties good predictors in distribution modelling for three
European crayfish?
Abstracts
2017, 28-30 September –
Biogeography of the Carpathians,
organized by Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Presentation:
- A journey on plate tectonics sheds light on
European crayfish phylogeography
Abstracts
2016, 5-8 September –
International Association of Astacology
(IAA) 21th Symposium,
organized by Real Jardin Botanico (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Oral presentations:
- The future of endangered Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank
1803) in the light of protected areas and habitat fragmentation: a
case study from the Carpathians
Co-author:
-
Adaptive response to early dominance of invader? A case study of
native crayfish populations recovery in the Lower Danube
Abstracts
2015,
7-10 October – the 5-th Aquatic
Biodiversity International Conference,
Sibiu, organised by the ”Lucian Blaga”
University of Sibiu, Romania
Oral presentations:
- Shelter choice prevents crayfish populations
drift in streams
Co-author:
- Assessing the crayfish ability to use
anaerobic metabolism under microrefugia conditions
2015,
9-12 April – the European Crayfish Conference: Research and Management,
Landau, organised by the Koblenz-Landau University, Germany.
Scientific committee member. Author
of oral presentation:
- Females – the key of success in spiny-cheek
crayfish invasion
Co-author:
- Insights into the stone crayfish history revealed by Romanian populations: a revision of the species´ biogeography
- Crayfish distribution reflect freshwater habitat’s stability
- Narrow-clawed crayfish in the Danube Delta (Romania) and River Dniester (Republic of Moldova) may carry relic crayfish plague genotypes of older outbreaks
2014,
14-15 May – the 6-th Studiun Oecologicum student conference,
Sibiu, organised by the ”Lucian Blaga”
University of Sibiu, Romania
Scientific committee member, co-author
of oral presentation:
- Females – the key of success in spiny-cheek
crayfish invasion
2013,
20-23 November – the Annual Zoological Congress of ”Grigore
Antipa” Museum, Bucharest, organised by the ”Grigore Antipa”
National History Museum.
Co-author:
- Zoogeography of epigean freshwater Amphipoda
(Crustacea: Malacostraca) of Romania
- Comparative fecundity of coexisting amphipod species
(Crustacea: Amphipoda) in western Romania. Could distant evolutionary
relationships promote coexistence?
2013,
8-11 October – the 4-th Aquatic
Biodiversity International Conference,
Sibiu, organised by the ”Lucian Blaga”
University of Sibiu, Romania
Oral presentations:
- Distribution and ecological preferences of noble crayfish in the Carpathian Danube basin: Biogeographical insights into the species history
Co-author:
- Spatial ecology of Hydropsyche incognita (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae) suggests eastward expansion in the Carpathians
- Proposal of management measures
concerning the control of the spiny-cheek crayfish (Decapoda:
Orconectes limosus Rafinescque, 1817) potential invasion in the
lower Romanian Danube watershed
2012,
21-23 November – the Annual Zoological Congress of ”Grigore
Antipa” Museum, Bucharest, organised by the ”Grigore Antipa”
National History Museum.
Oral presentations:
- Distribution pattern of the stone crayfish in
Romania is driven by karst: A consequence of the Pleistocene
glaciations?
Co-author:
- Phylogeography of the Gammarus balcanicus species complex (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the Carpathian Arc suggests persistent effects of Tertiary sea level changes
2011,
23-25 November – the Annual Zoological Congress of ”Grigore
Antipa” Museum, Bucharest, organised by the ”Grigore Antipa”
National History Museum.
- Current threats of indigenous crayfish species
in Romania
2010,
18-20 November – the Congress Ecology and ecosystems protection,
9th edition, organised by the „Vasile Alecsandri”
University Bacău, Faculty of Sciences.
- An overview of the actual status in
Orconectes limosus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) invasion in Romania
- Current threats of indigenous crayfish species
in Romania
2010,
26-29 October – the European Congress Crayfish: food, flagships
and ecosystem services, organised by the Laboratoire d’Ecologie,
Evolution, Symbiose in Poitiers, France. Posters presented:
- The assessment of the habitat and water quality
requirements of the stone crayfish (Austropotamobius torrentium)
and noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) species in the rivers
from the Anina Mountains (SW Romania)
- The status of threatened species
Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) in Romania
Paper published in extenso in conference
special issue: Pârvulescu et al. (2011)
2009,
12-13 November – the Annual Zoological Congress of ”Grigore
Antipa” Museum, Bucharest, organised by the ”Grigore Antipa”
National History Museum.
- Abnormal colors and shapes of the body and the
appendages of Austropotamobiustorrentium (Schrank,
1803) in Romania
- Stone crayfish Austropotamobius torrentium
(Schrank, 1803) in the SW of Romania mountain and submountain
area
