CONGRESSO SIBE 2010
Milano, 2-4 settembre

Organizzazione e ringraziamenti

Giovedì 2 settembre
Aula Magna Università degli Studi di Milano

	8:00-9:15	Registrazione dei partecipanti
Marco Ferraguti (Presidente SIBE)	9:15-9:30	Introduzione ai lavori
Frantisek Marec (invited speaker)	9:30-10:30	Sex chromosome evolution in organisms with female heterogamety and holokinetic structure of chromosomes: moths and butterflies (3,9 MB)
	10:30-11:00	Coffee break

11:00-13:00
Session 1 - Molecular evolution
Chairman: Mauro Mandrioli

Stefano Castellana	11:00-11:15	Exploring the role of mutation and selection on synonymous variability in metazoan mitochondrial genomes
Andrea Luchetti	11:15-11:30	Short Interspersed Elements activity, adaptation and genomic distribution in termite genome
Federica Tammaro	11:30-11:45	Molecular evolution of a gene cluster of female serine proteases involved in post-mating mechanisms of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae
Isabel Maida	11:45-12:00	The evolutionary dynamics of plasmids and chromosomes inhabiting the same bacterial cytoplasm
Renato Lupi	12:00-12:15	A survey of mitochondrial evolution in Metazoa: large variability in little genomes
Martina Lari	12:15-12:30	Mithocondrial DNA (mtDNA) temporal variation in wild and domestic pigs from a North-Eastern Italian site
Paolo Innocenti	12:30-12:45	The sexually antagonistic genes of Drosophila melanogaster
Davide Sassera	12:45-13:00	The Midichloria mitochondrii genome project
	13:00-14:30	Pausa pranzo

14:30-16:30
Simposio - L'evoluzione a scuola
Moderatrice: Alessandra Magistrelli

Alessandra Magistrelli, ANISN	14:30-14:45	La ‘riforma’ Gelmini: contenuti, problemi, qualche suggerimento
Franca Lasagna, Scienza Under 18	14:45-15:10	La scienza degli studenti
Massimo Esposti e Valentina Murelli	15:10-15:35	Comunicare la scienza a scuola. Linx Edizioni oltre i manuali
Ilaria Guaraldi Vinassa de Regny	15:35-16:00	Diversi ma uguali. Nuove esperienze didattiche al Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano
	16:00-16:30	Coffee break

16:30-18:00
Session 2 - Biodiversity and Evolution
Chairman: Ivan Scotti

Francesco Santini	16:30-16:45	Origin ad evolution of the modern coral reef fish fauna
Gentile Francesco Ficetola	16:45-17:00	Ecogeographical variation in amphibian body size: from patterns to processes
Michele Cesari	17:00-17:15	Barcoding meiofauna: the MoDNA (Morphology and DNA) project on DNA barcoding and phylogeny of Tardigrada
Marco Trizzino	17:15-17:30	A multigenic molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the “Haenydra” lineage (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, genus Hydraena)
Anna Fabiani	17:30-17:45	Conservation of Galápagos land iguanas: genetic monitoring and predictions of a long-term program on the island of Santa Cruz
Andrea Galimberti	17:45-18:00	Molecular tools help resolving a taxonomic enigma: the case of Paradoxornis webbianus and P. alphonsianus (Aves: Paradoxornithidae)
	18:00-19:00	Trasporto con autobus dei partecipanti ai Giardini di Porta Venezia
	19:00-19:55	Aperitivo al Biolab
	19:55-20:00	Trasferimento all'adiacente Aula Magna del Museo di Storia Naturale
Biodiversità, fra natura e cultura: l’importanza della divulgazione scientifica. Tavola rotonda	20:00-21:00	Introduzione: Giancarlo Lombardi, Presidente Fondazione Collegio delle Università Milanesi Discussants: Telmo Pievani, Filosofia della Scienza, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Maurizio Casiraghi, Biologia degli Invertebrati, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Francesco Rovero, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali e responsabile del progetto Udzungwa Monitoring Ecological Centre Damiano Di Simine, Presidente di Legambiente Lombardia Moderatore: Salvatore Carrubba – Il Sole24ore Segue la premiazione dello studente vincitore del concorso indetto dal Collegio di Milano l’anno internazionale della biodiversità: fra natura e cultura
Una notte al museo - Night at the Museum	21:00-22:00	Saluti iniziali di Stefano Mazzotti per l’Associazione Nazionele Musei Scientifici Cena tra le sale del Museo offerta dal Collegio di Milano e visita tra le sale e nelle collezioni guidata dai conservatori del Museo.

Venerdì 3 settembre
Aula Magna Università degli Studi di Milano

Claudio Bandi (invited speaker)	9:30-10:30	Lateral gene transfer and the origin of eukaryotic cells
	10:30-11:30	Coffee break
Simposio: Comunicare l’evoluzione	11:30-13:00	Introduce e modera Chiara Ceci
Nico Pitrelli	11:30-12:00	Scienziati e giornalisti: mondi a parte? No, mondi diversi
Marco Ferrari	12:00-12:30	L’evoluzione in redazione
Telmo Pievani	12:30-13:00	I giochi sleali dell’antidarwinismo
	13:00-14:30	Pausa pranzo

14:30-16:30
Session 3 - Phylogenesis
Chairman: Francesco Santini

Angelica Crottini	14:30-14:45	Disentangling the evolutionary history of the Tubifex species complex (Annelida, Clitellata): a comparison between molecular phylogeny and cytogenetics
Emiliano Trucchi	14:45-15:00	Re-framing model choice in phylogeographic Approximate Bayesian Computation
Omar Rota Stabelli	15:00-15:15	Dating arthropod relationships using soft constrains and phylogenomic datasets: methodological and paleoecological implications
Federico Plazzi	15:15-15:30	Phylogenetic representativeness: a new method for evaluating taxon sampling in evolutionary studies
Francesco Nardi	15:30-15:45	One tree with many dates: assessing the variation of time estimates across different datasets
Luca Pozzi	15:45-16:00	Assessing molecular divergence time estimates and the placement of alternative calibration points in the primate tree
Simonetta A. Angioi	16:00-16:15	Population structure and gene flow of European landraces of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Roberto Feuda	16.15-16:30	The origin of retinal binding domain. A phylogenomics investigation of the origin of vision in Metazoa
	16:30-17:00	Coffee break
Poster session	17:00-18:30	A. Bellati, D. Pellitteri-Rosa, R. Sacchi, A. Galimberti, M. Casiraghi, A. Nistri, M. Fasola, P. Galeotti, Comparing morphological variability and molecular divergence: a preliminary study in Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768) from the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy) M. Bellone, F. Mignone, F. Rapallo, S.R. Stürzenbaum, S. Swain, S. Rudzok, M. Bauer, A. Viarengo, F. Dondero, Transcriptomics assessment of evolutionary conserved response to toxicants across different species A. Benazzo, G. Bertorelle, How the temporal sampling scheme affects genetic inferences on population demography: a simulation study B. Bertolasi, L. Zago, I. Vanetti, G. Binelli, F. Sebastiani, G.G. Vendramin, F. Gorian, Occurrence of hybridization between Ulmus minor and Ulmus pumila in northern Italy E. Carnieri, The missing link in human evolution: an old but evergreen mith E. Carnieri, M. Balestri, Human evolution, Charles Darwin, the origin of human mind and religious beliefs: high schools student point of view E. Carnieri, M. Bisconti, Teaching palaeoanthropology at the natural history museum of the Mediterranean (2002-2010): eight years of changing in human evolution didactical experiences M. Cesari, T. Altiero, L. Rebecchi, Analysis of the TPS gene and anhydrobiosis in Tardigrades M. Fondi, G. Emiliani, E. Rizzi, G. Corti, M.C. Papaleo, E. Perrin, I. Maida, F. Baldi, G. De Bellis, R. Fani, The genome and the evolution of the hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium Acinetobacter venetianus VE-C3 A. Gambini, Biodiversity at school: educational objective and reference framework S. Ghirotto, L. Penso-Dolfin, V. Colonna, G. Barbujani, Testing for a southern route of early human dispersal from Africa D. Goretti, E. Bitocchi, E. Bellucci, M. Rossi, L. Nanni, G. Attene, R. Papa, Nucleotide diversity analysis in Mesoamerican wild and domesticated Phaseolus vulgaris L. P. Gratton, A. Gandolfi, Evolutionary relationships and origins of the critically endangered endemic Salmo carpio G. Libertini, Comparison between two paradigms about aging (+ link to poster) G. Libertini, Are C. elegans and D. melanogaster valid animal models for studies on aging? (+ link to poster) G. Libertini, Evolutionary definition of “normality” (+ link to poster and slides) E. Mancini, F. Tammaro, F. Baldini, A. Serrao, D. Rogers, P. George, I. Sharakhov, F. Catteruccia, A. Della Torre, Adaptive evolution of male accessory gland proteins involved in post-mating reproductive mechanisms of the African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae M. Mandrioli, Exogenous, non pathogenic, bacteria enhance the Drosophila melanogaster lifespan: when holobiont is more evolvable than individual organism R. Manenti, S. Candiani, M. Pestarino, A. Pasini, R. Pennati, F. De Bernardi, R. De Santis, R. Corti, G. Zega, Expression and role of the transcription factor POU IV in the differentiation of neurons originating from placodal areas in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis (Tunicata, Chordata) P. Martellini, Charles Darwin’s girlfriend G. Massamba-N’Siala, P. Calosi, D.T. Bilton, J.I. Spicer, D. Prevedelli, R. Simonini, Are there trade-offs between thermal tolerance and life-history performances in the marine polychaete Ophryotrocha labronica (Polychaeta, Dorvilleidae)? V. Milana, L. Sola, E. Angiulli, A.R. Rossi, Genetic structure in lagoon samples of A. boyeri: effects of habitat discontinuity and low dispersal ability L. Milani, F. Ghiselli, G. Maurizii, M. Passamonti, Mitochondrial inheritance and germline determination in a bivalve species with doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) L. Ometto, L. Bresadola, M. Li, C. Varotto, Altitude adaptation in Cardamine F. Paparazzo, Drosophila melanogaster as model species for studying host defense in invertebrates A. Pederzoli, R. Guidetti, C. Fioroni, P. Fregni, L. Pini, S. Sinceri, P. Veronesi, Evolution as a unifying concept in natural science D. Porretta, V. Mastrantonio, S. Epis, C. Bandi, D. Sassera, D. Pistone, L. Kramer, L. Rinaldi, C. Genchi, S. Urbanelli, Influence of the cellular endoparasite Midichloria mitocondrii on the mitochondrial genetic diversity in Ixodes ricinus tick G. Riccioni, Modelling Bluefin Tuna Mediterranean sea colonization through ABC D. Sanna, F. Biagi, B. Alaya Hayer, A. Romero, J. De Juan, J.-P. Quignard, P. Franzoi, P. Torricelli, M. Carcupino, P. Francalacci, Mitochondrial DNA variability of the black-striped pipefish Syngnathus abaster in the Mediterranean sea F. Scalfari, E. Caprio, G. Baldizzone, Education and research activities in biodiversity and evolution at WWF environmental education center “Villa Paolina” of Asti D. Schleicherova, M.C. Lorenzi, G. Sella, Alternative reproductive strategies and fitness in hermaphrodites T. Tanto Hadado, D. Rau, E. Bitocchi, R. Papa, Adaptation and diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Ethiopian barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) landraces revealed by molecular analysis S.T. Vilaça, F.R. Santos, Biogeographic history of the species complex Basileuterus culicivorus (Aves, Parulidae) in the neotropics
	18:30-20:30	Trasferimento presso l’Orto Botanico Cascina Rosa dell’Università degli Studi di Milano
	20:30-21:00	Cena sociale - Social Dinner

Sabato 4 settembre
Aula Magna del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano

Menno Schilthuizen (invited speaker)	9:30-10:30	Through the Looking Glass: Mirror Images in Animal Form
	10:30-11:00	Coffee break

11:00-13:00
Session 4 - Organism evolution
Chairman: Lino Ometto

Roberta Pennati	11:00-11:15	Comparative neuroanatomy of ascidian and amphioxus larvae: inferences on the nervous system of the chordate ancestor
Roberto Guidetti	11:15-11:30	Dormancy strategies in tardigrades: evolutionary aspects and ecological meanings
Fabrizio Ghiselli	11:30-11:45	The mitochondrial bottleneck: strict sex-specific mtDNA segregation in the germline of the DUI species Venerupis philippinarum (Bivalvia Veneridae)
Alessandro Dell’Anna	11:45-12:00	The early emergence of a central nervous system in basal metazoans
Luca Cornetti	12:00-12:15	Evolutionary relationships between Zootoca vivipara subspecies as inferred from patterns of genetic variation in Alpine populations
Elena Bitocchi	12:15-12:30	Origin and domestication of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Isabella D’Anna	12:30-12:45	Pristionchus uniformis, should I stay or should I go. Host switching in a nematode
Matteo Montagna	12:45-13:00	DNA barcoding a tool to detect cryptic species? Amblyomma cajennense, a case of study
	13:00-13:10	Premiazioni (premio Canestrini, miglior poster e miglior essay divulgativa)
	13:00-14:30	Pausa pranzo

14:30-15:45
Session 5 - Human Evolution
Chairman: David Caramelli

Valeria Montano	14:30-14:45	Pre-Neolithic signals of population expansion in Bantu speakers detected by high resolution analysis of Y-chromosome lineages
Frederick T. Wehrle	14:45-15:00	Sensory drive of colour signals in humans
Silvia Ghirotto	15:00-15:15	No evidence of Neandertal admixture in Cro-Magnoid and modern European mitochondrial genomes
Silvia Fuselli	15:15-15:30	Humans and their environment: the evolution of loci involved in metabolism of exogenous molecules in globally diverse populations
Caterina Chianella	15:30-15:45	Identifying genetic bases of human adaptation to high altitude
	15:45-16:30	Coffee break

16:30-17:30
Session 6 - Evolutionary Theory
Chairman: Francesco Frati

Emanuele Serrelli	16:30-16:45	Fitness landscapes and surfaces of selective Value
Giuseppe Damiani	16:45-17:00	Development of a new evolutionary theory
Stefano Mona	17:00-17:15	Genetic consequence of habitat fragmentation during a range expansion
Telmo Pievani	17:15-17:30	"Extended synthesis": a progressive shift of research program
	17:30-19:00	Assemblea generale SIBE ed elezione nuovo direttivo
	19:00-20:30	Cena
	20:30-21:30	Proiezione del film Creation al Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano. Projection of the movie Creation, at the Natural History Museum