Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: A Trento, congresso sull'Evoluzione

 
 
Dear friends and colleagues,
 
EVOLUZIONE2013, the Biennial congress of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE), will be held at the end of August (28-31) in the historical town of Trento, in the heart of the Italian Alps, a region renowned for its excellent wine, castles, and the beautiful dolomite mountains.The congress covers various exiting topics and aims to be extremely interdisciplinary and targeted not only to evolutionists, but also to other scientists willing to get in touch with evolution. There will be plenty of space to present your research as a talk or as a poster. We especially welcome contributions from PhD students, for which there is a specially-reduced 70 € congress fee, a dedicated “PhD symposium” for off topic abstracts, and awards for the best talk. The official language of the congress will be English, and we encourage the participation of researchers and students from outside Italy.
 
Symposia include:
 
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS FOR BIOSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURE
 
Chairs: Gianfranco Anfora and Claudio Varotto (FEM)
 
    Andres Moya (Universitat de València): Symbionts as natural synthetic biology engines
    Elisa Frasnelli (CIMEC, University of Trento): Linking the evolution of brain asymmetries and social behaviour in honeybees 
    Alessandro Cini (University of Firenze. Paris University): Insects social networks: from pure to applied ethology 
    Giuseppe Vendramin (CNR Firenze): Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climatic gradients: a forest genetic perspective 
    Roberto Papa (CRA Foggia): TBA
 
EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS
 
Chairs: Manuela Sironi (IRCCS E. MEDEA) and Dan Sargent (FEM)
 
    Francois Balloux (UCL) : Reconstructing human genetic diversity in space and time
    Christian Schlötterer (University of Vienna): Drosophila population genomics
 
EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE AND HEALTH
 
Chairs: Carlotta de Filippo and Heidi Hauffe (FEM)
 
    Eugene Rosemberg & Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg (TelAviv): Variation and Evolution of Holobionts
    Duccio Cavalieri (FEM): Systems level analysis of human fungal populations: passengers colonizers and invaders
 
LIFE THROUGH TIME: PALEOBIOLOGY AND PALEOBIODIVERSITY
 
Chairs: Silvio Renesto and Giorgio Binelli (University of Insubria)
 
    Mike Benton (University of Bristol): Origin of biodiversity
    Davide Pisani (University of Bristol) : Comparative genomics, elucidate the origin of vision and early animal evolution
    Evelyn Kustatscher (Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, LMU München) : From the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic - how did the flora change?
    Massimo Delfino (University of Torino): Developmental palaeontology from an Italian perspective
    Giorgio Carnevale (University of Torino): Ophidiiform fish from the Cretaceous of North-Eastern Italy: systematics and evolutionary implications
    Stefano Dominici (Museo Storia Naturale, University of Firenze): Macroevolutionary emergence of onshore-offshore gradients in community turnover
    Giuseppe Fusco (University of Padova): Fossilized ontogenies in evo-devo: the case of trilobites
    Silvio Renesto (University of Insubria): Diversity of Late Triassic Reptiles of Northern Italy
 
BIODIVERSITY 3D: THE INTERRELATIONS AMONG GENES, SPECIES, AND ECOSYSTEMS
 
Chairs: Cristiano Vernesi (FEM) and Ivan Scotti (INRA)
 
    Mike Bruford (University of Cardiff): Genes, species and ecosystem services: do we have the tools to pursue the paradigm?
    Krystal Tolley (South African National Biodiversity Institute): Exploring the history of Chameleons
 
The congress is the result of a collaboration between SIBE, Fondazione Edmund Mach, MUSE Trento Science Museum, and the University of Trento. The congress dinner will be held on Friday 30 August at the new Science Museum MUSE designed by Renzo Piano. On Saturday 30, we will host the The Wallace Day at MUSE, a day dedicated to communicating evolution and science to the public.

Dear friends and colleagues,
 
I froci non sono un'evoluzione ma un'aberrazione.