Registration is now open for *EVOLUZIONE2103* (www.evoluzione2013.it
http://www.evoluzione2013.it), the biennial congress of the
*Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE)*. The congress will
be held at the end of *August (28-31)* in the historical town of
*Trento*, in the heart of the Italian Alps, a region renowned for its
excellent wine, castles, and the beautiful dolomite mountains.

The congress covers various exiting topics and aims to be extremely
interdisciplinary and targeted not only to evolutionists, but also to
other scientists willing to get in touch with evolution. There will be
plenty of space to present your research as a talk or as a poster. We
especially welcome contributions from PhD students, for which there is
a specially-reduced 70 euros congress fee, a dedicated “PhD symposium”
for off topic abstracts, and awards for the best talk, poster and
contribution on "Evolutionary Medicine". The official language of the
congress will be English, and we encourage the participation of
researchers and students from outside Italy.

*Symposia include:
*
- *EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS FOR BIOSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURE*: Chairs:
Gianfranco Anfora and Claudio Varotto (FEM). Confirmed speakers:
Andres Moya (Universitat de València), Carlo Soave (University of
Milano), Giuseppe Vendramin (CNR), Roberto Papa (Cereal Research
Centre Foggia), Elisa Frasnelli (CIMEC, University of Trento) and
Alessandro Cini (University of Firenze and Paris University).

- *EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS*: Chairs: Manuela Sironi
(IRCCS E. MEDEA) and Dan Sargent (FEM). Confirmed speakers: Francois
Balloux (UCL), Christian Schlötterer (University of Vienna).

-* EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE AND HEALTH*: Chairs: Carlotta de Filippo and
Heidi Hauffe (FEM). Confirmed speakers: Duccio Cavalieri and Kieran
Tuohy (FEM).

- *LIFE THROUGH TIME: PALEOBIOLOGY AND PALEOBIODIVERSITY*: Chairs:
Silvio Renesto and Giorgio Binelli (University of Insubria). Confirmed
speakers: Mike Benton (University of Bristol), Evelyn Kustatscher
(Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige, LMU München), Cristina
Lombardo (University of Milano), Massimo Delfino and Giorgio Carnevale
(University of Torino), Stefano Dominici (Museo Storia Naturale and
University of Firenze) and Silvio Renesto (University of Insubria).

- *BIODIVERSITY 3D: THE INTERRELATIONS AMONG GENES, SPECIES, AND
ECOSYSTEMS*: Chairs: Cristiano Vernesi (FEM) and Ivan Scotti (INRA).
Confirmed speakers: Mike Bruford (University of Cardiff), Krystal
Tolley (South African National Biodiversity Institute).


The congress is the result of a collaboration between SIBE, Fondazione
Edmund Mach, MUSE Trento Science Museum, and the University of Trento.

Trento is easy accessible by train from Verona (1 hour), south Germany
(4 hours), Austria (3 hours), Milan (3 hours), and from the rest of
Europe with Verona and Milan airports. For more information on the
location, please visit http://www.visittrentino.it/en.

The congress dinner will be held on Friday 30th August at the new
Science Museum MUSE designed by Renzo Piano
(http://www.muse2012.eu/en/index.html).

Registration and abstract submission are open until 23rd June, and
shortly after we will communicate the decision on which abstracts will
be presented as talks.

For any query, please visit www.evoluzione2013.it
http://www.evoluzione2013.it/ or contact one of the chairs:
omar.rota@fmach.it, lino.ometto@fmach.it


Looking forward to see you in Trento!