INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY IN MASS MEDIA

The Laboratory of Entomology of the Institute of Zoology, in partnership with Natura magazine, carried out between February - May 2023 the competition Woodboring beetle - pests of icons. During this period, scientific articles were published on the website of magazine about the xylophagous beetles that can be found in old wooden icons in the churches and homes of Orthodox believers. The biology teachers, being tempted by the knowledge of xylophagous insects, promoted to the students in their classrooms information about the importance and role of xylophagous coleopterans in nature and in human ...

The Moldovan office of the World Federation of Scientists (WFS) recently announced the winners of the excellence scholarship for the year 2023-2024. Doctor in biological sciences Cristina Țugulea, senior scientific researcher in the Professor Boris Vereşciaghin Laboratory of Entomology, is among those 10 doctoral students and young researchers – beneficiaries of the scholarship. She will implement the project "Monitoring of lepidopteran species (Insecta: Lepidoptera) in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 'Lower Prut' in the Republic of Moldova" under the supervision of Dr.Hab. Assoc.Prof. Galina ...

Between May 14-17, 2023, young researchers Petru Ciorba, Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Ecotoxicology and Sorina Istrati, PhD student, Laboratory of Systematics and Molecular Phylogeny, participated in the GeoEcoMar Summer School, organized by the Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (GeoEcoMar) from Romania, with headquarters in Bucharest and a branch in Constanța. The main objective of the meeting was to highlight environmental and biotic changes in aquatic ecosystems. The summer school combined both theoretical and practical activities. Thus, the researchers from GeoEcoMar presented ...