The evolution of animal body plans: insights from development, genomes and morphology

The evolution of animal body plans: insights from development, genomes and morphology

Symposium
Monday Octobe r27th 2025, at 14.30
Aula Magna Felice Azzone, Polo multifunzionale Vallisneri
Università degli Studi di Padova

The evolution of animal body plans: insights from development, genomes and morphology Lecturesin evolutionaryand developmentalbiologyfor the award of the Kowalevsky Medal 2024 to Alessandro Minelli

LINK ZOOM per il simposio:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/84320938872?pwd=JcCdVlfmK7fytRT7IrLNKv1hLwus80.1

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Programme
14:30 Luigi Bubacco (Head of DiBio) Welcome address
14:45 Alexander Ereskovsky(Aix Marseille Université)
Different ways for body plan development in non-bilaterian animals: sponges as an example
15:20 Peter Holland (University of Oxford)
The genomic basis of developmental evolution: a problem solved or an elusive dream?
15:55 Alessandro Minelli (University of Padova)
Constructing animals, deconstructing rules: a place for comparative morphology in evo-devo
16:30 General discussion and Q&A
17:00 Kowalevsky Award presentation and Medal awarding ceremony
17:30 Light refreshments

All interested people are invited to attend

LINK ZOOM per il simposio:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/84320938872?pwd=JcCdVlfmK7fytRT7IrLNKv1hLwus80.1

ID riunione: 843 2093 8872
Codice d’accesso: 163995
 
For information:
loriano.ballarin@unipd.it
giuseppe.fusco@unipd.it
lucia.manni@unipd.it