Carmelo at the 2024 SIBE conference

Carmelo has partecipated to the 2024 meeting of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE/ISEB). The meeting has taken place in beautiful Naples, from September 8th to 11th, and Carmelo has both given a talk and co-organised a symposium.

Specifically, Carmelo has co-organised with Andrea Luchetti (University of Bologna) – a symposium on “Modern systematics: improving the way biodiversity is captured, explored and understood“, focusing on topics such as taxonomy and trait evolution (the full description of the symposium is available on the official website). The symposium invited speaker was Daniele Silvestro (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and all talks were well received, with many questions from an extremely engaged audience.

At the conference, Carmelo has also presented a talk on “Heterogeneous relationship between rates of speciation and rates of phenotypic evolution in a hyperdiverse fish clade”. The talk presented yet unpublished results from the lab on variation in evolutionary rates in wrasses.

Photo: Carmelo Fruciano and Andrea Luchetti just before starting the symposium on modern systematics. Photo courtesy of Francesca Raffini (Naples Zoological Station).