Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

CV:
2021 present: Research Fellow (RTDA), BIO/05 Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IT
2018 2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2018: Training Fellowship, Muséum National d Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FR
2017: Training Fellowship, City University of New York, USA
2017: Training Fellowship, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2017: PhD in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology (curriculum Animal Biology), Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2015: Tutoring Fellowship, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2012: MSc in Ecobiology, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
2010: BSc in Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, IT

Research activities:
my researches concerns two main aspects of evolutionary biology, both having marine gastropods as study model: (i) pattern and dynamics of biodiversity, which includes integrative taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics, and correlation between different larval development strategies and species genetic connectivity, with a focus on morphologically cryptic neglected groups; (ii) macroevolution of phenotypic traits, especially in host-parasite systems and in prey-predator interactions, with a particular interest in trophic ecology and predation-related toxins diversity. Among my target groups there are Capulidae, a marine gastropods family of kleptoparasite that undergo a host-driven limpetization process, the family Velutinidae for which a molecular based species delimitation approach revealed a hidden species diversity, and Conoidea, a neogastropod superfamily that developed venom as a defensive/predatory strategy.

Selected publications:
Fassio, G., Stefani, M., Russini, V., Buge, B., Bouchet, P., Treneman, N., E. Malaquias, M.A., Schiaparelli, S., Modica, M.V., Oliverio, M. 2022. Neither slugs nor snails: a molecular reappraisal of the gastropod family Velutinidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1 41. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac091.
Fassio, G., Russo, P., Bonomolo, G., Fedosov, A.E., Modica, M.V., Nocella, E., Oliverio, M.2022. A molecular framework for the systematics of the Mediterranean spindle-shells (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae, Fusininae). Mediterranean Marine Science, 23(3), 623-636. DOI:10.12681/mms.29935
Fassio, G., Bouchet, P., Oliverio, M., Strong, E. E. (2022). Re-evaluating the case for poecilogony in the gastropod Planaxis sulcatus (Cerithioidea, Planaxidae). BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22:13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01961-7
Gorson, J. & Fassio, G., Lau, E., Holford, M. (2021). Diet Diversity in Carnivorous Terebridae Snails is Tied to the Presence and Absence of a Venom Gland. Toxins, 13(2), 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins13020108
Fassio, G., Bouchet, P., Lozouet, P., Modica, M.V., Russini, V., Schiaparelli, S., Oliverio, M. (2021). Becoming a limpet: an 'intermittent limpetization' process driven by host features in the kleptoparasitic gastropod family Capulidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 155: 107014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107014
Fassio, G., Russini, V., Buge, B., Schiaparelli, S., Modica, M.V., Bouchet, P., Oliverio, M. (2020). High cryptic diversity in the kleptoparasitic genus Hyalorisia Dall, 1889 (Littorinimorpha: Capulidae) with the description of nine new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 86: 401 421. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa028
Russini, V., Giannuzzi-Savelli, R., Pusateri, F., Prkic, J., Fassio, G., Modica, M.V., Oliverio, M., (2020). Candidate cases of poecilogony in Neogastropoda: implications for the systematics of the genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847. Invertebrate Systematics, 34: 293 318. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS19039
Fassio, G., Modica, M.V., Mary, L., Zaharias, P., Fedosov, A., Gorson, J., Kantor, Y.I., Holford, M., & Puillandre, N. (2019). Venom diversity and evolution of the most divergent cone snail genus Profundiconus. Toxins, 11: 623 https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11110623