EVOLUTION AND PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY
16 June
- 9:00 Accreditation and registration
Chairs: Giulia Petroni, Lorenzo Giulivi
9:15 Jeffrey Tomberlin (Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University)
“Generalist v Specialist in Decomposition Ecology Reveal Unique Evolutionary Stable Strategies Allowing for Niche Partitioning "
9:55 M. Olalla Lorenzo-Carballa (CRETUS, Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology,University of Santiago de Compostela)
“Alternative reproductive strategies in insects: Ecological and genetical correlates of parthenogenesis in the damselfly Ischnura hastata”
- 10.35 coffee break
Chairs: Asmita Baral, Sara Futia
11:00 Matthew Peirce (Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Perugia)
“Stress management in mosquitoes: Resolving the tension between survival and reproduction in the malaria vector ”
11:40 Benedetto Morandi (Osservatorio Epidemiologico, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche "Togo Rosati”)
“National Arbovirus Plan 2020-2025: Surveillance and Control”
- 12.30 Lunch
Chairs: Maria Vittoria Leonardi, Agnese Carnevali, Giada Sgaravizzi
14:30 Fabrizio Carletti (Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive L. Spallanzani I.R.C.C.S.)
“Molecular Evolution and adaptive Dynamics of Viruses”
15.10 Piotr Koper (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
“Genome plasticity in : the role of plasmids and replicon diversity”
15.50 Stefano Fiorucci (Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Perugia)
“Structure and functions of the human microbiota”
- 16:30 Closure of works
17 June
- 9.00 Accreditation and registration
Chairs: Maurizio Gildo Cavaliere, Davide Perrone
09:15 Salvatore Tomasello (Department of Systematic Botany, University of Gottingen)
“Molecular methods for species delimitation, phylogenetic and biogeographic inference. Examples from the Asteraceae”
09:55 Emanuele De Paoli (Dep. of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine)
“From Individual Responses to Evolutionary Adaptation: Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Plant Phenology”
- 10:35 coffee break
Chairs: Alessandra Maganza, Maria Vittoria Leonardi, Camilla Mossotto
11:00 Giulia Margaritelli (Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, University of Perugia)
“Foraminifera as Ecological Indicators: Modifications and Adaptations”
11:40 Irene Cardinali (Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia)
"Tracing maternal histories with DNA: from macro to micro phylogeographic evolutions"
12:20 Silvia Crotti (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche “Togo Rosati”)
“Dermatophytoses from a one health perspective: what can and should we do?”
- 13:00 Lunch
14.30 PhD students’ presentations
- 17:00 Closure of Summer School works

