All Icelandic partners (Ingi Rúnar Jónsson, Dr., Jón S. Ólafsson, Vaiva Čypaitė and David Finger) participated in the IceBio2015 (Biology Iceland) conference, which was held between 5^th and 7^th November 2015 in Iceland.

The conference is biannual conference on biology in Iceland, organised by the Icelandic Biology Society, the Institute of Biology at University of Iceland, Biomedical Center at the University of Iceland, with special support from multiple other institutes and Universities in Iceland. Twelve different topic sessions were open with 106 talks in total, covering developmental and molecular biology, ecology and evolution, environment and diseases.

The Icelandic partners jointly presented the ESENIAS-TOOLS project concept and preliminary results of Case study 2: Comparative study on the effect of hydrological regime on the distribution of the invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata in extreme environments (Icelandic rivers and lakes, and Bulgarian high-mountain lakes). The contribution is entitled: The dissemination of the invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata in subpolar oceanic climate – a case study from Iceland.

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Abstract:

Čypaitė V., I. R. Jónsson, J. S. Ólafsson, N. Ognjanova, D. Finger 2015. The dissemination of the invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata in subpolar oceanic climate – a case study from Iceland. >>>

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