STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN 14:00-18:00 SIBE CRASH COURSE (Conference room SZN): max 70 participants (registration is mandatory), more info below 18:00-20:00 WELCOME APERITIVE (DaDoM Museum) & registration opening

AULA MAGNA MATILDE SERAO - Università Napoli Parthenope, Via Acton 38 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:30 Welcome 9:30-10:15 Congress Opening Lecture: Dario Riccardo Valenzano (Friedrich Schiller University - Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany) 10:15 Symposium 1 “Species adaptive response against climate changes”. Chairs: Gabriele Procaccini (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Salvatore Cozzolino (University of Napoli Federico II) 10:15-10:45 - Invited lecture: Lazaro Marin Guirao (IEO-CSIC, Murcia, Spain) 10:45-11:15 - Coffee break with poster session 11:15-13:00 – Symposium 1: participants’ talks (7 talks, 15 min each) 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 Symposium 2 “Development and evolution: an ecological perspective”. Chairs: Maria I. Arnone (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Salvatore D’Aniello (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Gabriele Andreatta (University of Padova, Italy) 14:30-15:15 *** THE EMBO KEYNOTE LECTURE***: Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany; Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Germany) 15:15-16:15 Symposium 2: participants’ talks (4 talks, 15 min each) 16:15-16:45 Coffee break with poster session 16:45-18:00 Symposium 2: participants’ talks (5 talks, 15 min each) 20:30-22:30 OUTREACH EVENT- SZN DaDoM Museum

AULA MAGNA MATILDE SERAO - Università Napoli Parthenope, Via Acton 38 8:30 Symposium 3 “Modern systematics: improving the way biodiversity is captured, explored and understood” Chairs: Carmelo Fruciano (National Research Council, Messina, Italy), Andrea Luchetti (University of Bologna). 8:30-9:00 Invited lecture: Daniele Silvestro (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 9:00- 10:30 Symposium 3: participants’ talks (6 talks, 15 min each) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break with poster session 11:00-11:30 Symposium 3: participants’ talks (2 talks, 15 min each) 11:30 Symposium 4 “An evolutionary approach to the biology and ecology of behaviour”. Chairs: Donato Grasso (University of Parma, Italy), Danilo Russo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 11:30-12:00 Invited lecture: Mirjam Knörnschild (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany) 12:00-13:00 Symposium 4: participants’ talks (4 talks, 15 min each) 13:00-14:00 Lunch break / meeting "Gruppo Italiano di Genetica e Genomica della Conservazione" (see parallel and social events, in ITA) 14:00-14:45 Symposium 4: participants’ talks (3 talks, 15 min each) 14:45 Symposium 5 “Phylogeography and conservation genomics” Chairs: Alessio Iannucci (University of Florence, Italy), Andrea Chiocchio (Tuscia University, Italy) 14:45-15:15 Invited lecture: Angelica Crottini (University of Porto, Portugal) 15:15- 16:00 Symposium 5: participants’ talks (3 talks, 15 min each) 16:00-16:30 Coffee break with poster session 16:30-18:00 Symposium 5: participants’ talks (6 talks, 15 min each) 20:00 SOCIAL DINNER (location to be defined)

AULA MAGNA MATILDE SERAO - Università Napoli Parthenope, Via Acton 38 9:00-9:45 Cavalli-Sforza award lecture: Tanja Stadler (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) 9:45 Symposium 6 “The wild side of population genomics” Chairs: Francesca Raffini (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy), Roberto Biello (University of Ferrara, Italy) 9:45-10:15 Invited lecture Joana Isabel Meier (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK) 10:15-11.00 Symposium 6: participants’ talks (3 talks, 15 min each) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break with poster session 11:30-12:30 Symposium 6: participants’ talks (4 talks, 15 min each) 12:30-13:15 Talks on other topics 13:15-14:15 Lunch break 14:15-16:15 Society meeting and new board election 16:15-17:00 Awards: Dr. Darwin Prize (best 2023-2024 paper on Evolutionary Medicine, short talk by the winner), SIBE prize, best poster, best talk 17:00-17:15 Concluding remarks