Conference Agenda

Comparative landscape genetics of two partly sympatric hare species

Jeremy Larroque

CEFE, France

Epigenetic biomarkers provide a non-lethal sexing method for endangered sea turtles with temperature-dependent sex determination

Eugenie C. Yen¹, James D. Gilbert¹, Alice Balard¹, Inês O. Afonso¹, Kirsten Fairweather², Camryn D. Allen³, Gabby Carvajal⁴, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero⁵, Blair P. Bentley⁶, Sandra M. Correia⁷, Albert Taxonera², Stephen J. Rossiter¹, José M. Martín-Durán¹, Jeanette Wyneken⁴, Lisa Komoroske⁶, Christophe Eizaguirre¹

¹Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; ²Project Biodiversity, Mercado Municipal, local 22 Santa Maria, Ilha do Sal, Cabo Verde; ³Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA1845 Wasp Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii, HI 96818, USA; ⁴Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, FL 33431, USA; ⁵Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, IA 5001, USA; ⁶Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, USA; ⁷Instituto do Mar (IMar), Cova d'Ínglesa, CP132 Mindelo, Ilha do São Vicente, Cabo Verde

Phylogeography and landscape genetic analyses for the conservation of the threatened saproxylic beetle Rosalia alpina in Italy

Vincenzo Buono¹, Silvia Gisondi², Alice Lenzi², Alessandra Riccieri³, Giulia Fassio¹, Marco Alberto Bologna³, Alessio De Biase¹, Emiliano Mancini¹, Alessandro Campanaro²

¹Sapienza Univerisity of Rome, Italy; ²Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Italy; ³Roma Tre University, Italy

A Genomics approach to the study of Formica wood ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biodiversity in Italy

Giobbe Forni, Simona Corneti, Jacopo Martelossi, Fabrizio Ghiselli, Andrea Luchetti

University of Bologna, Italy

Assisted evolution techniques: a proof of concept for plant conservation under Global Change.

Alfredo García-Fernández¹, Sandra Sacristan-Bajo¹, Carlos Lara-Romero¹, Samuel Prieto-Benitez², Javier Morente-Lopez³, Elena Torres⁴, Jose María Iriondo¹

¹Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain; ²Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; ³Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, IPNA-CSIC Canary Islands, Spain; ⁴Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Conservation actions for endangered plant Eryngium alpinum L. in Eastern Alps: genotype and germination study

Riccardo Mancinelli^1,2,3, Jože Bavcon⁴, Alberto Biscontin^1,5, Francesco Boscutti^1,5, Enrico Braidot¹, Laura Della Mea⁶, Emanuele De Paoli¹, Nicoletta Felice¹, Sara Gargiulo^1,7, Fabio Marroni^1,5, Michele Morgante^1,5, Paloma Perez Bello Gil¹, Elisa Petrussa¹, Blanka Ravnjak⁴, Giacomo Trotta^1,7, Marco Vuerich^1,5, Valentino Casolo^1,5

¹Department of Agrifood, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy; ²Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; ³Centre of Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; ⁴University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Slovenia; ⁵National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy; ⁶Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Stazione Forestale di Paluzza (Udine), Italy; ⁷Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Gut microbial functions are impacted by habitat: implications for the conservation of non-human primates

Marina Bambi^1,2, Giulio Galla¹, Barbara Crestanello¹, Francesco Rovero², Heidi C. Hauffe¹, Claudia Barelli², Matthias Scholz¹

¹Conservation Genomics Research Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy; ²Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Development of novel eDNA-based tools for supporting sturgeon repopulation monitoring plans

Caterina Maria Antognazza¹, Fausto Ramazzotti², Antonella Bruno², Andrea Galimberti², Monica Di Francesco³, Serena Zaccara¹

¹Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy; ²Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, P.za Della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy; ³Settore Fauna - Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino, via Isonzo 1, 20013 Pontevecchio di Magenta (MI), Italy

Temporal changes in plant use and plant-pollinator networks revealed using pollen DNA metabarcoding

Natasha de Vere¹, Laura Jones², Abigail Lowe³

¹Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; ²National Botanic Garden of Wales, UK; ³UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK