International Scientific Seminar “Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban park soils under varying degrees of disturbance”
Location: Yandex Telemost
The links to the Seminar: https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/5391882564
About the event
On May 13, 2026, the scientific center "Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the context of global changes" of ATI RUDN University will organize an international scientific seminar "Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban park soils under varying degrees of disturbance". The event will be held in a mixed format on the Yandex Telemost platform. The working language is Russian.
The seminar will be devoted to modern approaches to the study of the taxonomic and functional diversity of urban soils and their associated microbial communities under technogenic pressure. It will address the community structure and the range of functions of soil organisms in parks differing in the degree of disturbance, the potential of epiphytic microorganisms to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the urban environment as an element of surface bioremediation, as well as the mycobiota of fine dust in the “air–green vegetation–soil” system of urban ecosystems.
Event program
17.30–17:50
Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Urban Park Soils under Varying Degrees of Disturbance
Ekaterina Kozlova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Junior Research Fellow, SUN research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute, RUDN University
17.50–18:10
Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Epiphytic Microorganisms under Urban Conditions
Olesya Sazonova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Research Fellow, G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino)
18.10–18:30
Mycobiota of Fine Dust in the Air-Green Spaces-Soil System of Northern Urban Ecosystems: A Case Study of Murmansk
Maria Korneikova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Agrarian and Technological Institute, RUDN University; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems, Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
18.30–19.00
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