On September 2–5, 2025, the NSCMB FEB RAS together with the FEB RAS, the Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (FSCEATB) FEB RAS, the Far Eastern Federal University, and the Vladivostok Public Foundation for the Development of Genetics (VFDG) held the traditional (already 12th) international symposium entitled “Modern achievements in population, evolutionary and ecological genetics, MAPEEG-2025”.

The Program Organizing Committee of the Symposium consisted of such well-known representatives of the Far Eastern science as Yu.Ph. Kartavtsev (Scientific Head of the Laboratory Molecular of Systematics NSCMB FEB RAS, Prof., Dr. Sci. Biol.), E.I. Bondar (Scientific Head of the Laboratory of Genetics NSCMB FEB RAS, Cand. Sci. Biol.), D.M. Atopkin, and I.N. Sheremetieva (specialists from the FSCEATB FEB RAS).

The symposium brought together about 50 participants who attended it personally. A total of 107 participants (including co-authors) were registered at the event, 34 reports were delivered, and 20 poster papers presented. The scope of the reports and posters covered a wide range of research areas including molecular systematics, evolutionary genetics and genomics, phylogenetics, population and environmental genetics of animals and plants.

The symposium was also joined by 23 foreign participants from China, India, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. The authors from Russia represented such cities as Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Irkutsk, Saint-Petersburg, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Birobidzhan, Arkhangelsk, Magadan, Tomsk, Chita, Sevastopol, and Rostov-on-Don.

Thanks to its unique 30-year history of holding meetings in English, with dozens of young scientists and specialists from the RAS and universities of Russia and many foreign countries involved, this event has become an important achievement in the scientific, educational, and public awareness activities of the Center, which is of great importance not only for the Far East but also for all Russian science in general (https://wwwimb.dvo.ru/misc/mapeeg/index.php/en/).

The Organizing Committee is grateful to all guests and partners and looks forward to further cooperation!