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On 13 November 2025, a ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of understanding for cooperation and mutual interest in the development of citizen science in the Czech Republic and Slovakia took place at Arnold Villa in Brno. The document is considered as an initial step toward the establishment of the Czech and Slovak Citizen Science Platform….
The Centre opened its doors to visitors before nine in the morning. The chilly November weather on Thursday, 13 November 2025, brought the first guests straight into the brightly lit meeting room, which soon filled with students from St. Ursula Grammar School – St. Ursula United School in Bratislava. Guided by their teachers, the students…
The International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR 2025), held from 16–20 June 2025 in Ghent, Belgium, ranks among the world’s most prestigious events in the field of plant biology. Slovakia was successfully represented by researchers from the Plant Biology and Biodiversity Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) – Dr Jozef Mravec, Assoc. Prof….
After almost forty years since the last edition of the Slovak botanical nomenclature, a new, updated, and substantially expanded edition is being published. It is the result of long-term collaboration among distinguished experts from the following institutions: The publication provides Slovak names for 5,700 genera, 21 sections (within the genera Rubus and Taraxacum), 16,314 species,…
On Saturday, 11 October 2025, a small group of nine botany enthusiasts gathered in Rusovce, a borough of Bratislava. The Slovak Botanical Society and the Plant Biology and Biodiversity Centre (CBRB) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) invited them on an excursion that revealed how new, uninvited guests are establishing themselves in our nature.The…
Hybrid zones are areas where related species come into contact and interbreed. Hybridisation is often associated with natural or anthropogenic disturbances of the environment, as such conditions promote secondary contact between originally isolated species. For biologists, these zones provide an exceptional opportunity to observe processes directly linked to the origin of new species, including interspecific…
The largest science popularisation event in Slovakia – Science Night 2025 – offered a day filled with discovery, curiosity, and inspiring encounters. Among dozens of stands, the CBRB SAV team drew attention with their project, Who does not belong here and who lives here: Invasive species and DNA analysis of biodiversity. Visitors learned how modern…
On 8 September 2025, a ceremony was held in the lecture hall of the Institute of Virology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAV) to present congratulatory letters to sixteen prominent members of the Slovak Academy of Sciences who are celebrating significant birthdays this year. The awards were presented by Martin Venhart, President of…
Olha Lakhneko, a Young Principal Investigator of the Plant Stress Group at the Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, recently participated in the 2nd Annual Meeting of the RECROP COST Action CA22157, “Climate-Proof Crop Reproduction: From Lab to Farm”, held from 13 to 15 May 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece. During the conference, Olha: The RECROP…
From 28 April to 2 May 2025, scientists from all over Europe met for the annual conference of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS), which this time took place in Perugia in the heart of Italy. Around 150 experts were in attendance. The event brought together researchers from different parts of Europe to discuss the latest…