The International Conference of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest "Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture" June 4 - 6, 2015, Bucharest, Romania

The 4^th International Conference “Agriculture for Life, Life for Agriculture”, 4-6 June 2015, will bring the world leader publisher ELSEVIER to the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest! A signed agreement, dated April 2014, allows us to select original research papers from the conference, so as to propose their online publishing on Science.Direct.com, Elsevier’s premier online platform, in a special issue that will also be sent by Elsevier to be included in the Thomson Reuters – Web of Science Core Collection.
We invite you to celebrate together the joy of this event!
 

Conference Topics

Section 1 - Agronomy

• Soil sciences
  

Soil genesis and morphology; Physical and chemical properties of soils; Soil fertility; Soil biology; Soils and environmental quality; Soil tillage systems; Land rehabilitation.

• Crop sciences
  

Crop production; Crop ecology and physiology; Crop nutrition and fertilizers in crop production; Crop breeding; Crop protection; Yield quality and processing; Alternative crops. 

• Miscellaneous
  

Agroecosystems; Climatic changes and future challenges; Agricultural machinery and equipments in crop production; Precision farming in crop production; Crop biomass and biofuels; Organic farming in crop production.
Section 2 - Horticulture

• Fruit growing
  
• Viticulture and Oenology
  
• Vegetable growing
  
• Floriculture, Ornamental Plants, Design and Landscape Architecture
  

The four subsections above refer to the following topics: Sustainable crop production and technologies in horticulture; Biodiversity and genetic resources; Plants physiology; Genetics and breeding; Plant production systems (propagation and nursery management); Plant protection (disease and pest management, virology); Protected horticulture; Soilless culture; Postharvest and quality management of horticultural products; Landscape Planning and Design, Landscape Dendrology, Garden Architectural Design, Landscape Engineering, Landscape Art, Urban Green Space System Planning, Sustainable landscape design strategies.

• Miscellaneous
  

Climate-resilient horticulture; Ecological horticulture systems; Permaculture; Urban horticulture; Waste management and alternative energies in horticulture; New horticultural plants and crops.
Section 3 - Animal Science   

• Genetics and breeding
  

Population genetics; Quantitative genetics; Molecular genomics; Animal breeding programs.

• Nutrition
  

Forage; Nutritive value of forages; Productive effect of forage; Particularities of animal nutrition.

• Reproduction, physiology, anatomy
  

Optimizing fertility; Artificial insemination; Reproductive endocrinology; Embryo transfer; Embryology research; Mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of animal organisms; Shape and structure of animal organisms.

• Technologies of animal husbandry
  

Technologies of animal husbandry of economic interest; Animal welfare; Beekeeping; Sericiculture.

• Technologies of the agro food products processing
  

Cereals and oil processing; Livestock products processing; Fruit and vegetable processing; Traditional food processing; Food processing machinery; Preservation and Logistics; Agro-products quality and bio-safety.

• Wild life management, fishery and aquaculture
  

Wild animal populations; Relationship between the habitat and the wild animal populations; Wildlife conservation; Farming of fisheries and aquatic organisms; Fisheries management; Ecosystem based fisheries and aquatic animals; Marine protected areas.

• Miscellaneous
  

Machinery and installations for animal husbandry; Livestock building; Zoo-hygiene.
Section 4 - Veterinary Medicine

• Fundamental sciences
  

• Clinical sciences
  

• Public health and animal production
  

• Veterinary education
  

• Miscellaneous
  

Section 5 - [b][b]Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering[/b] 
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• Environmental science and engineering
  

• Sustainable development of rural area
  

Soil contamination; decontamination technology; waste treatment; composting; underground water contamination ways and decontamination methods; soil erosion; irrigation-drainage; balance of artificial and natural environment; Wind Energy; irrigation management; slope stability; underground water pollution.

• Disaster management
  

• Water resources management
  

• Pollution control, land planning
  

• Topography and cadastre
  

• Earth observation and geographic information systems
  

• Miscellaneous
  

Complementary topics.
Section 6 - Biotechnology

• Agricultural biotechnology
  
  

Plant cell culture, bioproducts  in plant protection, biostimulators, edible and medicinal mushrooms,  GMO and risk assessment, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics,  molecular markers.

• Biotechnology in veterinary medicine
  

Vaccines, protein production, probiotics, prebiotics, feed technologies, microbial genetics, molecular markers in animal breeding, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics.

• Food biotechnology
  

New food processing techniques, novel food, fermentation processes, food additives, food ingredients, functional food, food waste.

• Industrial and environmental biotechnology
  

Biopolymers, biodegradation, composting, Lyfe Cycle Assessment, ecotoxicity,  applied biotechnology, biofuel, bioremediation , process design and modelling , biopharmaceutical engineering, microbial fermentations, biorefinery, renewable energy.

• Food safety
  

Food contaminants, food pathogens, food borne illness, risk assessment, risk management, risk communication, safe food storage, food labelling, food shelf life, HACCP, food hygiene, GMP, food handling, antimicrobial treatments.

• Miscellaneous
  

Food and Biotechnology legislation, Fermentation industry equipment and installations, insurance in biotechnology, GMO-legislation
 
Section 7 - Management and Economics in Rural Areas

• Production economics
  

Agrifood economy; Financial economic analysis; The economic efficiency of agricultural production; Accounting.

• Farm management and agromarketing
  

Production Management; Financial Management; Investment Management; Human Resources Management; Business Management; Quality Management; Project management in agriculture; Agromarketing; Management of SMEs in agriculture; Rural and regional development management; Qualitative and Quantitive Marketing; Marketing Strategies.

• Agricultural policies
  

Agricultural and food policies; Community Projects.

• AgriBusiness and agricultural extension
  

Agribusiness; Business Communication and Negotiation; Financing activities in agriculture; Business management; Agricultural management consultancy; Banking; Cooperation in agriculture; Agrotouristic Services.

• Agritourism and rural development
  

Rural Development; Rural Sociology; Public food services and agrotourism; Agrotourism; Agrotouristic resource management; Touristic landscape planning.

• Environmental economics
  

Management of renewable resources; Economy; Expertise and environmental control; Green economy.

• Educational management in agronomic education
  

Educational management in agronomic education.

• Miscellaneous
  

Trade in agricultural products; Insurance and reinsurance in agriculture; Food legislation; Food industry equipment and installations; Rural Statistics.
 
The official language of the conference is English.