The Doctoral Conference of the Department of Botany was held on 6th November. All 2nd and 3rd year PhD students had a chance to present their recent findings to other members of the department. From our workgroup, Bruno and Slendy gave excellent presentations. Bruno talked about the relationship between alien species and dark diversity and Slendy talked about her recent greenhouse experiment where she compares plant functional traits and functional diversity in different soil moisture conditions. All PhD students did an amazing job and we look forward to their next findings during their studies.