Conference Chair:
Svetlana Degteva, corresponding member of the RAS, doctor of sciences, director of the Federal Research Center “Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (Syktyvkar).
Vice-Chairmen:
1. Tamara Golovko, professor, doctor of sciences, chief researcher of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Ecology of the Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar).
2. Tatiana Pystina, PhD, senior researcher of the Northern flora and vegetation department of the Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar).
Organizing Committee Secretary:
Mikhail Shelyakin, PhD., researcher of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Ecology of the Institute of Biology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar).
Programm Committee:
1. Ludmila Gagarina, PhD., deputy director for research of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg).
2. Farida Minibayeva, doctor of sciences, head of the Laboratory of Redox Metabolism, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of Kazan Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kazan).
3. Evgenia Muchnik, doctor of sciences, associate professor, leading researcher of the Laboratory of Ecology of Broadleaved Forests of the Institute of Forestry Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow Region, Uspenskoye village).
4. Alexander Paukov, PhD, associate professor of the Biodiversity and Bioecology Department of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg).
5. Angela Sonina, doctor of sciences, associate professor, head of the Botany and Plant Physiology Department of the Institute of Biology, Ecology and Agricultural Technologies of the Petrozavodsk State University (Petrozavodsk).
6. Andrei Tsurykau, doctor of sciences, associate professor, professor of the Biology Department of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University (Gomel, Republic of Belarus).
7. Richard Beckett, professor, PhD, University KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa).