Studying cetaceans using high-tech instruments and machine learning approaches
Invited speaker – Francesco Caruso

Genetic manipulation of the silkworm Bombyx mori: from basic science to biotechnological applications
Daniel J. Brady, Alessio Saviane, Matteo Battistolli, Irene Varponi, Federica Barca, Silvia Cappellozza, Federica Sandrelli

Il microbioma intestinale delle larve di mosca soldato nera come strumento per lo sviluppo di strategie innovative di bioconversione
Silvia Caccia, Morena Casartelli, Gianluca Tettamanti

Insect functional morphology: from basic research to biomimetics
Manuela Rebora, Silvana Piersanti, Gianandrea Salerno, Stanislav Gorb

Nuove tecnologie a supporto della zoologia per il monitoraggio e lo studio del comportamento animale: dai droni e l’intelligenza artificiale alla stampa 3D
Daniele Giannetti, Donato A. Grasso

The evolutionary neuroanatomy of blood feeding in mosquitoes revealed by X-ray tomography
Paolo Gabrieli, Irene Arnoldi, Marta Villa, Soresinetti Laura, Leah Houri-zeevi

Machine learning applications for animal behavior studies: the case of automatic discrimination of voiced and unvoiced primate faces
Filippo Carugati, Olivier Fiard, Elisa Protopapa, Camilla Mancassola, Emanuela Rabajoli, Chiara De Gregorio, Daria Valente, Valeria Torti, Teresa Raimondi, Valeria Ferrario, Walter Cristiano, Marco Gamba

Motility from shape control: from biophysics to biorobotics
Invited speaker – Antonio De Simone

The zoological contribution to the multidisciplinary study of two shipwrecks off Tuscany coasts (Italy, western mediterranean)
Jonathan Tempesti, Domingo Belcari, Valeria Croce, Gabriella Caroti, Simonetta Menchelli, Ferruccio Maltagliati

Crematogaster scutellaris e Vicia faba: mutualismo manipolativo?
Giulia Magoga, Giobbe Forni, Daniele Giannetti, Matteo Brunetti, Valentina Picchi, Elia Russo, Nadia Bazihizina, Morena Casartelli, Alberto Spada, Massimo Nepi, Stefano Mancuso, Franco Faoro, Donato Grasso, Matteo Montagna

Under pressure: understanding the impact of air pollution on pollinators and pollination
Irene Piccini

Genomic investigations indicate a novel evolutionary scenario for a bacterial lineage associated with Ecdysozoa
Michele Castelli, Leandro Gammuto, Diona Podushkina, Matteo Vecchi, Tiziana Altiero, Emanuela Clementi, Roberto Guidetti, Lorena Rebecchi, Davide Sassera

Impiego di una combinazione di tratti morfo-funzionali come metodo alternativo per l’analisi della struttura della nematofauna marina e terricola
Federica Semprucci, Eleonora Grassi

From zoology to tissue engineering: the second life of sea urchin wastes
Michela Sugni, Giordana Martinelli, Margherita Roncoroni, Tamara  Chwojnik, Luca Melotti, Anna Carolo, Giulia Zivelonghi, Marco Patruno, Stefania Marzorati

Lo stato di conservazione del gambero nativo di fiume Austropotamobius pallipes complex (Decapoda: Astacidae) nel parco delle foreste Casentinesi
Elena Tricarico, Sara Forni, Beatrice Melone, Matteo Orlando, Asia Rossi, Marco Morbidelli

Struttura genetica della trota fario (S. ghigii Pomini, 1941): nuove evidenze dalle popolazioni native sarde e peninsulari tramite approccio genomico (GBS)
Tommaso Righi, Andrea Splendiani, Tatiana Fioravanti, Francesco Palmas, Andrea Sabatini, Diego Micheletti, Andrea Gandolfi, Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi

Do faunal bioinvasions pass trough marine litter pollution? the case of a brackish coastal lagoon in the central mediterranean sea
Gioele Capillo, Claudio D’iglio, Dario Di Fresco, Nunziacarla Spano’, Marco Albano, Serena Savoca

Honeybees impacts on wild bees biodiversity in a small and protected island through exploitative competition: the case study of Giannutri
Lorenzo Pasquali, Alessandro Cini, Giorgio Vicari,claudia Bruschini, Leonardo Dapporto

Paraleucilla magna (Porifera, Calcarea): il contributo di una spugna aliena in un mare di cambiamenti
Roberta Trani, Caterina Longo

Bathymetric distribution and co-presence in coralligenous community of Eunicella cavolini (Koch, 1887) and Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1827)
Federica Ferrigno, Luca Appolloni, Luigia Donnarumma, Francesco Rendina, Roberto Sandulli, Giovanni F. Russo

Valutazione in campo dei possibili effetti dell'olio essenziale di Ocimum basilicum L. sulle comunità di nematodi a vita libera del suolo
Eleonora Grassi, Linda Catani, Loretta Guidi, Priscilla Farina, Camilla Tani, Barbara Conti, Anna Annibaldi, Federico Girolametti, Roberta Ascrizzi, Guido Flamini, Luana Da Costa Monteiro, Federica Semprucci

QBS-ar VS QBS-e: a comparison of their performance on arable land under different management practices
Marco Monticelli, Martina Coletta, Alessandro Mascaretti, Leonardo Salvatori, Aurora Torresi, Mario Marconi, Antonietta La Terza

Notes on the use of Artemia salina (Linnaeus, 1758) and congeners in scientific research
Marco Albano, Claudio D’iglio, Serena Savoca, Nunziacarla Spano’, Gioele Capillo

Histopathological abnormalities in zebrafish liver induced by dimoxystrobin, a synthetic strobilurin fungicide
Rachele Macirella, Abdalmoiz I.M. Ahmed, Federica Talarico, Marcello Mezzasalma, Elvira Brunelli

Clearwing moths (Lepidoptera : Sesiidae) as effective models for studying the efficiency of mimicry in predator-prey interactions
Marta Skowron Volponi, Leonardo Dapporto, Luca P. Casacci, Francesca Barbero, Elena Chiesa, Paolo Volponi

Genus Lepidurus (Crustacea, Notostraca) as a model for study the biological rhythms
Vittorio Pasquali

Olfaction in the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens
Silvana Piersanti, Manuela Rebora, Giorgia Carboni Marri, Gianandrea Salerno

Dall’ etologia all’ecotossicologia: le vespe cartonaie come organismi modello nella ricerca scientifica
Federico Cappa, Livia De Fazi, David Baracchi, Rita Cervo

L’uso delle telecamere temporizzate nello studio della dimensione temporale delle comunità marine
Marzia Bo, Federico Betti, Francesco Enrichetti, Andrea Rivela, Giorgio Bavestrello

Killer whales formation swimming: relative energetic costs and group geometry
Federica Spina, Michael N. Weiss, Darren P. Croft, Paolo Luschi, Alessandro Massolo, Paolo Domenici

Yawn contagion in zebrafish (Danio rerio): preliminary data from a multidisciplinary approach
Alice Galotti, Gianluca Manduca, Matteo Digregorio, Sara Ambrosini, Donato Romano, Massimiliano Andreazzoli, Elisabetta Palagi

Individual personality affects the behavioural response of free-flying homing pigeons to an artificial predator
Luca Marinoni, Giulia Cerritelli, Claudio Carere, Robert Musters, Diego Rubolini, Irene Vertua, Lorenzo Vanni, Anna Gagliardo, Dimitri Giunchi

Qualitative and quantitative sampling of epigeal soil macroarthropods: different methods for different objectives
Gianluca Polgar, Paolo Iezzi, Marzio Zapparoli, Romolo Fochetti, Anna Maria Fausto

Application of innovative imaging techniques to the study of the proboscis of Aedes albopictus (Culicidae)
Irene Arnoldi, Marta Villa, Laura Soresinetti, Paolo Gabrieli

An ecologist-friendly R workflow for expediting species-level classification of camera trap images
Luca Petroni, Luca Natucci, Alessandro Massolo

Integrating fossil data into ecological niche models to forecast the effect of climate change on mammal biodiversity
Mirko Di Febbraro, Arianna Morena Belfiore, Silvia Castiglione, Marina Melchionna, Giorgia Girardi, Alessandro Mondanaro, Pasquale Raia

Urban biodiversity and applied zoology: a marriage of forensic interest
Paolo Bonivento, Emiliana Minenna

The Arthropod-based Biological Soil Quality index (QBS-Ar): three-year application in the Sentina reserve (Italy)
Martina Coletta, Aurora Torresi, Marco Monticelli, Aldo D’alessandro, Antonietta La Terza

Symbiotic peritrichs (Ciliophora: Oligohymenophorea) of the okavango panhandle, Botswana
Gerhard De Jager, Linda Basson, Liesl Van As, Valentina Serra, Giulio Petroni

Analisi del microbioma intestinale e dei parassiti gastrointestinali in Lepus corsicanus (De Winton, 1898)
Martina Tenuzzo, Flavio Vallone, Claudia Vannini, Valter Trocchi, Giorgia Romeo, Fabio Macchioni

Playful packs: facial expressions and mimicry in wild Canis lupus italicus
Veronica Maglieri, Alice Galotti, Alessio Garzelli, Marco Apollonio, Chiara Benedetta Boni, Nadia Cappai, Francesca Coppola, Marco Del Frate, Alessia Di Rosso, Arianna Dissegna, Paola Fazzi, Antonio Felicioli, Andrea Gennai, Marco Lucchesi, Alessandro Massolo, Luca Petroni, Elisabetta Palagi

Primates extract social information from vocal interactions: a playback experiment in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)
Luca Pedruzzi, Martina Francesconi, Alice Galotti, Bezawork Afework Bogale, Elisabetta Palagi, Alban Lemasson

Can sea urchin waste be used as a valuable source of calcium for laying hens?
Francesca Leone, Michela Sugni, Stefania Marzorati, Lorenzo Ferrari, Valentina Ferrante

When zoology meets design: the sea urchin as a model for biomimetics
Mirko Di Febbraro, Arianna Morena Belfiore, Silvia Castiglione, Marina Melchionna, Giorgia Girardi, Alessandro Mondanaro, Pasquale Raia

Plasticity in behavioural responses to predator recolonisation: ungulates, foxes Vulpes vulpes and wolves Canis lupus in a Mediterranean area
Invited speaker – Francesco Ferretti

The selection of thermal refugia is the main driver of behavioural choices in alpine ibex (Capra ibex) responding to global warming
Stefano Grignolio, Francesca Brivio, Francesco Sganzerla, Bruno Bassano, Cristiano Bertolucci, Marco Apollonio

On the wings through the streets: a solitary bee shows morphological, physiological and behavioural shifts in heavily urbanised area
Carlo Polidori, Andrea Ferrari

Effects of tire particles and associated-chemicals on the pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas physiology, reproduction and next-generation
Bernardini Ilaria, Tallec Kevin,, Paul-Pont Ika, Peruzza Luca, Dalla Rovere Giulia, Huber Matthias, Di Poi Carole, Koechlin Hugo, Quéré Claudie, Quillien Virgile, Le Grand Jacqueline, Le Goïc Nelly, Lambert Christophe, Lagarde Fabienne, Détrée Camille, Rafael Trevisan, Charlotte Corporeau, Tomaso Patarnello, Huvet Arnaud, Milan Massimo

Ecotoxicological effects of tyre wear road particles: metal accumulation and physiological response in Tenebrio Molitor
Maria Luigia Vommaro, Attilio Naccarato, Rosangela Elliani, Piero Giulio Giulianini, Antonio Tagarelli, Anita Giglio

A multidisciplinary approach unveils the resilient behavior of Chamelea gallina, a case study
Federica Carducci, Elisa Carotti, Maria Assunta Biscotti, Adriana Canapa, Marco Barucca

Living in a contaminated environment: the role of the midgut in black soldier fly larvae
Daniele Bruno, Jeroen De Smet, Martina Marzari, Dries Vandeweyer, Dario Lachi, Morena Casartelli, Gianluca Tettamanti

Giornalismo scientifico: sfide vecchie e nuove
Invited speaker – Nicla Panciera

Bestie del Web: social e zoologia
Invited speaker – Willy Guasti

An Italian zoologist abroad: personal experience, myths and reality
Marco Musiani

The role of zoologists in INTEREG projects through selected examples
Manuela Mauro, Hornsby Lucie Branwen, Francesco Longo, Aiti Vizzini, Claudio Gargano, Mirella Vazzana, Vincenzo Arizza

MSCA Individual fellowships (and similar grants): a personal experience in “POLLINATORS ET AL.” project
Irene Piccini

Mattei Plan and Institute of European Studies "De Gasperi" as new opportunities for international employment in training and applied research for young zoologists: the example in Angola and Mauritania with studies on Hippotragus niger variani (Thomas, 1916) for the management and protection of an important bioindicator of water and environmental quality
Antonio Sabbatella, Francesco Napolitano, Emiliana Minenna, Edna Carmelino Do Nascimento, Paolo Bonivento

A zoologist in a multidisciplinary context of international cooperation: a personal experience
Alessandra Bardi

Behind the scenes: the evaluation steps for the advanced ERC projects
Elisabetta Palagi

EU Project pitfalls: when everything goes wrong (not only) on Friday the 13^th
Mascha Stroobant

General concluding remarks and question time
Cristina Giacoma, Giulio Petroni

Culturing, single cell sequencing and phylogenomics: advancing our understanding of the diversity and evolution of eukaryotes
Invited speaker - Martin Kolisko

We can’t change who they are: integrating public and new COI, NADH2 and 12S sequences to build reference libraries for cartilaginous fish species
Simone Di Crescenzo, Cariani Alessia, Valentina Crobe, Alice Ferrari, Martina Spiga, Riccardo Melis, Andrea Bellodi, Antonello Mulas, Maria Cristina Follesa, Rita Cannas

Essere o non essere Raja L. 1758: quando e quanto tassonomia e sistematica molecolare sono necessarie per la biodiversità delle razze
Fausto Tinti, Alice Ferrari, Valentina Crobe, Alessia Cariani

Population genetics of a habitat-forming scleractinian coral in the mesophotic and deep-sea of the Red Sea
Roberto Arrigoni, Tullia I Terraneo, Fabio Marchese, Chakkiath P Antony, Nicolas Oury, Federica Barreca, Silvia Vimercati, Giovanni Chimienti, Sam J Purkis, Carlos M Duarte, Mohammad A Qurban, Mattie Rodrigue, Ameer A Eweida, Francesca Benzoni

Pleiotropy drives the cryptic persistance of male reproduction in parthenogenetic stick insects
Giobbe Forni, Barbara Mantovani, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Andrea Luchetti

Multiple receptors for multiple vitellogenin forms?
Marco Barucca, Chiara Spinsante, Federica Carducci, Elisa Carotti, Adriana Canapa, Davide Bizzaro, Maria Assunta Biscotti

The water-borne protein pheromone families of the ciliate Euplotes: an improved view of their structural evolution
Claudio Alimenti, Bill Pedrini, Pierangelo Luporini, Adriana Vallesi

Diversity and similarity of cilia tips across the evolution
Invited speaker - Ewa Joachimiak

An endosymbiosis that got stuck? observations of genome evolution in the mixotrophic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum
Invited speaker - Estienne Swart

Caratterizzazione molecolare delle risposte delle larve di zanzara Aedes albopictus all’entomopatogeno Bacillus thuringiensis
Maria Carmen Valoroso, Monica Vaghi, Gaetano Aufiero, Nunzio D’agostino, Silvia Caccia

Genetic basis of reproductive host plant preferences in Cacopsylla melanoneura (Hemiptera, Psyllidae)
Lapo Ragionieri,Erika Corretto, Christian Stauffer, Jeffrey Feder; Hannes Schuler

Rediscovering the Alectoris partridges (Phasianidae): advances and perspectives in the genomic era
Giovanni Forcina, Kritika Garg, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Tang Qian, Abdellah Ichen, José Antonio Blanco-aguiar, Fabián Casas, Sen Song, Tamer Albayrak, Monica Guerrini, Frank Erwin Rheindt, José Antonio Davila, Filippo Barbanera

Evidence of convergent evolution in the nuclear and mitochondrial oxphos genes across Squamata deep lineages
Oscar Wallnoefer, Alessandro Formaggioni, Federico Plazzi, Marco Passamonti

Molecular architecture and gene rearrangement in the mitochondrial genomes of gastrotrichs
Anush Kosakyan, Agata Cesaretti, Francesco Saponi, Leandro Gammuto, Valentina Serra, Giulio Petroni, M. Antonio Todaro

Advancing tardigrade biodiversity monitoring in leaf litter: the potential of eDNA metabarcoding
Federica Frigieri, Elia Lo Parrino, Michele Cesari, Ilaria Giovannini, Elisa Vandelli, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Lorena Rebecchi, Roberto Guidetti

Tardigrades biodiversity in Italian rock pools revealed trought metabarcoding
Matteo Vecchi, Jakub Godziek, Claudio Ferrari, Diego Fontaneto, Daniel Stec

A full raft: the nudibranch fauna (Mollusca, Gastropoda) traveling on board the bryozoan Amathia verticillata (Delle Chiaje, 1822)
Giulia Furfaro, Egidio Trainito, Michele Solca, Alessio Mauro, Emanuele Mancini

Il delfino comune del mediterraneo: ricostruzione della storia ecologica ed evolutiva attraverso i reperti osteologici
Pasino Martina, Cilli Elisabetta, Gnone Guido, Iacovelli Maria Vittoria, Iacumin Paola, Podestà Michela, Tinti Fausto

Using thermal priming to mitigate the lethal effects of marine heatwaves on the manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum
Luca Peruzza, Carmen Tucci, Giulia Dalla Rovere, Ilaria Bernardini, Serena Ferraresso, Rafaella Franch, Massimiliano Babbucci, Mattia Panin, Tomaso Patarnello, Massimo Milan, Luca Bargelloni

Cambiamenti climatici e variazioni nella diversità genetica della trota fario (Salmo trutta complex) in Italia meridionale: evidenze dal DNA antico (aDNA)
Andrea Splendiani, Tatiana Fioravanti, Tommaso Righi, Daniele Albertini, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi

Comparative head morphology in adult of tiger beetles of the genus Calomera by geometric morphometrics
Yavuz Koçak, Asli Doğan Sarikaya, Federica Talarico, Elvira Brunelli

Chemical and vibrational cues involved in the host location of Sclerodermus cereicollis and Sclerodermus domesticus (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Paolo Masini, Lorenzo Austeri, Manuela Rebora, Silvana Piersanti, Gianandrea Salerno

Ibridazione naturale ed antropogenica, e potenziale adattativo nel caribù (Rangifer tarandus) e in altre specie
Marco Musiani

Intra-guild competition and ecosystem services of mammal scavengers in a new colonized wolf landscape
Rudy Brogi, Paolo Bongi, Marco Del Frate, Sara Sieni, Anna Cavallera, Marco Apollonio

Symbioses between prokaryotes and ciliates in the natural environment: distribution, patterns, and glimpses into evolutionary dynamics
Vittorio Boscaro, Vittoria Manassero, Patrick J. Keeling, Claudia Vannini

Predator-prey interaction between the freshwater ciliated protist Coleps hirtus and the microturbellarian flatworm Stenostomum sphagnetorum
Federico Buonanno, Gabriele Achille, Santosh Kumar, Daizy Bharti, Graziano Guella, Claudio Ortenzi

Understanding ecological adaptation in the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis through the lens of energy allocation
Andrea Perna, Enrico Rivoli, Daniel Perkins

Systematic review of genus Lacrymaria with morphology-based identification key
Alessandro Allievi, Giulio Petroni, Valentina Serra

Multidisciplinary description of a new species of ciliate, Frontonia moderata sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from Italy and South Africa
Andrea Lenti, Alessandro Allievi, Giulio Petroni, Valentina Serra