The conference is scheduled for December 4-5, 2025. It will be held at the IEE RAS Conference Hall (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Participation will be conducted in person and remotely (via videoconference). The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.
The Conference Co-Chairs are Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences A.V. Surov (IEE RAS), and Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences V.A. Belyaev (All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography VNIRO).
Conference Topics:
- Impacts of Microplastics on Aquatic Vertebrates in Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems
- Impact of Microplastics on the Biology of Terrestrial Vertebrates: Research and Observations
- Mechanisms of Microplastic Impact on Animals: Toxicity, Bioaccumulation, and Other Effects
- Risk Assessment of Microplastic Impacts on Vertebrate Ecology
- Impact of Microplastics on Food Chains and Biodiversity
- Methods for Detecting and Quantifying Microplastics in Various Environments
A collection of abstracts based on the conference proceedings will be published, indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), and individual papers may be recommended for publication in Russian specialized journals.
There is no registration fee for participation.
Those who have already registered their paper for the Conference are requested to send a one-page abstract of their paper, in accordance with the Abstract Rules, by November 1, 2025, to the Secretary of the Conference Organizing Committee, Igor Vladimirovich Sedletskiy (VNIRO), at sedletskiy@vniro.ru.