Abstract_PCE_2843_2022 Abstract PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2022 Drăgușin, V., Vlaicu, M., Balan, S.V., M. Baciu, M.M. Pop, O. Sambor, 2023. Characteristics of submerged and partially submerged caves (habitat type 8330) in Romania. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12137-1 Iepure S., Wysocka A., S. M. Sarbu, M. Kijowska, T, Namiotko, 2023. A new extremophile ostracod crustacean from the chemoautotrophic sulphidic ecosystem of the Movile Cave (Romania), Scientific Reports, 13, 6112. Di Lorenzo, T., Galassi, D.M.P., T. Di Camillo, A., Pop, M.M., Iepure, S., Piccini, L. 2023. Life-History Traits and Acclimation Ability of a Copepod Species from the Dripping Waters of the Corchia Cave (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy). Water, 15, 1356. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071356 Rodas, L. R., S. M. Sarbu, R. Bancila, D. Price, Ž. Fišer, M. Protas, 2023. Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. Evolution & Development, doi/10.1111/ede.12428 Pop, M. M., T. di Lorenzo, S. Iepure, 2023. Living on the edge – an overview of invertebrates from groundwater habitats prone to extreme environmental conditions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 - 2022. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1054841 Di Lorenzo, T., A.S. Reboleira, D. Galassi, F. Hervant, M. Avramov, S. Iepure, S. Mammola. 2023. Physiological tolerance among groundwater organisms. In: Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Eds.: Florian Malard, Christian Griebler, Sylvie Rétaux, Academic Press, 457-479, ISBN 9780128191194 Abstract_PCE_2843_2022 Abstract PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2023 Research report PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2022 Drăgușin, V., Vlaicu, M., Balan, S.V., M. Baciu, M.M. Pop, O. Sambor, 2023. Characteristics of submerged and partially submerged caves (habitat type 8330) in Romania. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12137-1 Iepure S., Wysocka A., S. M. Sarbu, M. Kijowska, T, Namiotko, 2023. A new extremophile ostracod crustacean from the chemoautotrophic sulphidic ecosystem of the Movile Cave (Romania), Scientific Reports, 13, 6112. Di Lorenzo, T., Galassi, D.M.P., T. Di Camillo, A., Pop, M.M., Iepure, S., Piccini, L. 2023. Life-History Traits and Acclimation Ability of a Copepod Species from the Dripping Waters of the Corchia Cave (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy). Water, 15, 1356. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071356 Rodas, L. R., S. M. Sarbu, R. Bancila, D. Price, Ž. Fišer, M. Protas, 2023. Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. Evolution & Development, doi/10.1111/ede.12428 Pop, M. M., T. di Lorenzo, S. Iepure, 2023. Living on the edge – an overview of invertebrates from groundwater habitats prone to extreme environmental conditions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 - 2022. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1054841 Di Lorenzo, T., A.S. Reboleira, D. Galassi, F. Hervant, M. Avramov, S. Iepure, S. Mammola. 2023. Physiological tolerance among groundwater organisms. In: Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Eds.: Florian Malard, Christian Griebler, Sylvie Rétaux, Academic Press, 457-479, ISBN 9780128191194 Abstract_PCE_2843_2022 Abstract PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2023 Research report PCE_2843_2021 Research report PCE_2843_2022 Drăgușin, V., Vlaicu, M., Balan, S.V., M. Baciu, M.M. Pop, O. Sambor, 2023. Characteristics of submerged and partially submerged caves (habitat type 8330) in Romania. Environ Monit Assess 195, 1520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-12137-1 Iepure S., Wysocka A., S. M. Sarbu, M. Kijowska, T, Namiotko, 2023. A new extremophile ostracod crustacean from the chemoautotrophic sulphidic ecosystem of the Movile Cave (Romania), Scientific Reports, 13, 6112. Di Lorenzo, T., Galassi, D.M.P., T. Di Camillo, A., Pop, M.M., Iepure, S., Piccini, L. 2023. Life-History Traits and Acclimation Ability of a Copepod Species from the Dripping Waters of the Corchia Cave (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy). Water, 15, 1356. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071356 Rodas, L. R., S. M. Sarbu, R. Bancila, D. Price, Ž. Fišer, M. Protas, 2023. Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. Evolution & Development, doi/10.1111/ede.12428 Pop, M. M., T. di Lorenzo, S. Iepure, 2023. Living on the edge – an overview of invertebrates from groundwater habitats prone to extreme environmental conditions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 - 2022. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1054841 Di Lorenzo, T., A.S. Reboleira, D. Galassi, F. Hervant, M. Avramov, S. Iepure, S. Mammola. 2023. Physiological tolerance among groundwater organisms. In: Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Eds.: Florian Malard, Christian Griebler, Sylvie Rétaux, Academic Press, 457-479, ISBN 9780128191194 Bizic, M., T. Brad, D. Ionescu, L. Barbu-Tudoran, L. Zoccarato, J. W. Aerts, P. E. Contarini, O. Gros, J. M. Volland, R. Popa, J. Ody, D. Vellone, J. F. Flot, S. Tighe, S. M. Sarbu, 2022. Cave Thiovulum (Candidatus Thiovulum stygium) differs metabolically and genomically from marine species. ISME J (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01350-4. Szederjesi, T., D.F. Marchán, C. Csuzdi, S.M. Sarbu, T. Pavlíček, V. Krízsik, P. Martin, J. Domínguez, 2022. Three in one: molecular phylogeny of the genus Helodrilus (Crassiclitellata: Lumbricidae) with a description of two new genera and two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlac069, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac069 Iepure, S., C. Badaluta, O.T. Moldovan. 2021. An annotated checklist of groundwater Copepoda (Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida) from Romania with notes on their distribution and ecology. Subterranean Biology, 41: 87–108 Brad T., Iepure S., Sarbu S. M. 2021. The Chemoautotrophically Based Movile Cave Groundwater Ecosystem, a Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity. Diversity, 13, 128. Weiss, I. & Sarbu, S. M. 2021. Porrhomma frasassianum spec. nov. from a sulfidic cave, Italy (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen / Arachnology Letters 61: 73-76. 2021 – 2024 Maria Mirabela Pop. Evolutionary and adaptation aspects of groundwater crustaceans from the sulfidic meso-thermal aquifer of Mangalia (Dobrogea de Sud, south-eastern Romania). PhD Thesis at the Romanian Academy. Supervisor: Oana T. Moldovan. Co-supervisor: Sanda Iepure. MSc Filip Boanca 2021 – 2022. Investigating the presence of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria on microcrustaceans from the groundwater system of Mangalia (Romania), University Babes Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania Master program: Systemic Ecology and Conservation. Supervisor: Sanda Iepure (ISER, Cluj Napoca, Romania), Rahela Carpa (UBB, Cluj Napoca, Romania), Jean-François Flot, Claire Chaveau (ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium) MSc Sanziana Grapa 2021 – 2022 Hydrogeochemistry of the mesothermal sulfide aquifer from South Dobrogea (Romania) - determinant for spatial structure of groundwater cyclopoid and ostracod crustaceans metacommunities. University Babes Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania, Master program: Systemic Ecology and Conservation. Supervisor: Sanda Iepure Pop, M.M., F.P. Boanca, A. Stefan, F. Stoch, S. Iepure. 2022. Insights into the Eucyclops graeteri species complex (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) — The case of sulphidic groundwaters of Mangalia (Southern Dobrogea, Romania). The 25th Conference on Subterranean Biology, 18 – 22 July Cluj Napoca, Romania. Boancă, F.P., C. Chauveau, J.F. Flot, M.M. Pop, S. Iepure. 2022. Identification of sulfur – oxidizing Thiothrix bacteria on microcrustaceans from the sulfidic groundwaters of Mangalia (Southeastern Romania). The 25th Conference on Subterranean Biology, 18 – 22 July Cluj Napoca, Romania. Ștefan, A., J.F. Flot, E.I. Iorgu, L.O. Popa, S. Keffer, F. Stoch, Ș. Sârbu. 2022. Phylogenetic diversity of water scorpions (Nepa sp.). 2022. The 25th Conference on Subterranean Biology, 18 – 22 July Cluj Napoca, Romania. Sarbu, S., T. Brad, C. Chaveau, J.F. Flot, S. Galdenzi, D.M.P. Galassi, G. Gentile, S. Iepure, D. Jones, P.J. Martin, A. Montanari, F. Stoch, 2022. Biodiversity in the sulfidic sections of the Frasassi caves, Italy. The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes, 15 - 31 March 2022, Biodiversity in the sulfidic sections of the Frasassi caves, Italy. The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes, 15 - 31 March 2022. Kijowska, M., Iepure, S., Radja, T., Namiotko, T., Wysocka, A. 2021. Molecular insight into taxonomy of the genus Typhlocypris Vejdovský, 1882 (Ostracoda: Candoninae). Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, SEFS 12, 25 – 30 Iulie 2021 (virtual conference). Sarbu, S. M., Brad, T., Chaveau C., Flot J. F., Galdenzi, S., Galassi D.M.P., Gentile G., Iepure, S., Jones D. S., Martin P., Montanari A., Stoch F. 2021. Biodiversity in the sulfidic sections of the Frasassi caves, Italy. 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022) — New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes has been updated. While the conference will still be held on 15–31 March 2022 (https://iecd2022.sciforum.net/). GIGA IV: Fourth international meeting of the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (eveniment online, 16-18 November 2021) (Stud. Maria Mirabela Pop).