Themes

• Adaptation
  Chairs: Luigi Musco, Marco Passamonti
  This theme encompasses research on molecular, anatomical, behavioral, and physiological adaptations in the marine environment, including the effects of sexually selected traits
• Biodiversity
  Chairs: Luca Mirimin, Paolo Sordino
  This theme encompasses studies about the variety of co-evolving life, including all genes, species and ecosystems and the ecological processes which they are part of

• Conservation
  Chairs: Lucia Bongiorni, Emiliano Trucchi
  This theme addresses the estimation and preservation of the evolutionary potential of marine ecosystems to face current and future environmental challenges, with a focus on genetic and genomic approaches
• Macroevolution
  Chairs: Maria Vittoria Modica, Sergio Stefanni
  This theme focuses on major evolutionary patterns and processes affecting the diversity of marine clades, above the species level, including phenotypic evolutionary trends over extended timescales
• Populations and Species
  Chairs: Francesca Leasi, Emanuela Dattolo
  This theme focuses on studies exploring the evolutionary dynamics of variations observed in populations and species across spatial and temporal scales, including, ecological, phenotypic and genetic features