XVI European Congress of Ichthyology

The 16th European Congress of Ichthyology is organised by the European Ichthyological Society from 2 to 6 September 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. One hundred thirty participants will present 94 oral communications and 56 posters in five thematic areas: (1) Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography; (2) Morphology, ontogeny and palaeontology; (3) Genetics, genomics and physiology; (4) Ecology and life cycles; and (5) Threats and conservation. Besides, four symposia are organised: (1) Otoliths as a tool to study fish life cycles; (2) Gayling (genus Thymallus): evolution, systematics, management and conservation; (3) Evolutionary genomics of fishes; and (4) Evolution and ecology of fish with asexual reproduction, hybrid complexes, and polyploidy, with special focus on loaches (Cobitoidei). Five plenary and three keynotes lectures will address selected issues in these topics.