Past Meetings
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto: The conference will highlight key advances in a DNA barcode-based approach to biodiversity recognition, including recent bioinformatic developments. Taking place over two days, the conference will address what is known of barcodes for both Canadian and global biodiversity. The impacts of this knowledge will be examined in terms of both technology development and the implications for scientific and public policy.
Keynote speakers:
Daniel H. Janzen, DiMaura Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Scott E. Miller, Office of the Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution: With special Network research theme presentations by:
Spencer Barrett (University of Toronto) - Plants
Brian Golding (McMaster University) - Informatics
Paul Hebert (University of Guelph) - Animals
Donal Hickey (Concordia University) - Fungi
Gary Saunders (University of New Brunswick) - Protists
Registration will include access to all sessions on April 28th and 29th, after-hours admission to Darwin: the Evolution Revolution, reception and dinner April 28th at the ROM, and refreshments at all breaks and lunches on both days. Abstract submission deadline has been extended until March 28th. For more information, read the Call for Abstracts (http://www.bolnet.ca/Announcement%20-%20Call%20for%20abstracts.pdf). Please register for the conference using this form. (http://www.bolnet.ca/registration.pdf) Thank you to everyone who has already registered. If you wish to assist in spreading the word about the conference, please print this poster (http://www.bolnet.ca/bolnet-poster.pdf) for distribution.
Please contact Sue-Ann Connolly (sujohnst@uoguelph.ca) with questions.
The 2nd Scientific Symposium of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network will take place April 28-29, 2008 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Save the dates, and note a reception and dinner are planned for the evening of the 28th. Registration details will be posted on www.bolnet.ca in January of 2008.
EDIT, the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, is organizing a meeting on DNA Barcoding in Europe from 3-5 October in Leiden, the Netherlands. Researchers from EDIT and non-EDIT-organizations and stakeholders are invited to join in.
The goal of the meeting is to provide a platform for European researchers working on DNA barcoding and other DNA sequence-based species identification systems to meet and exchange. To coordinate research efforts in Europe we are proposing to initiate working groups on topics of shared interest that should then carry on after the meeting. One important issue will be how to explore funding options, particularly with view to the 7th framework.
Researchers who would like to take the lead in one of the aforementioned working groups or researchers looking for additional partners in proposals are very welcome to contact the organizers. We will try to accommodate your interests in the meeting.
For more information about the conference click here or go to http://www.ecbol.org/index.php?/pa/ge/welcome
Download the First Circular by clicking here.
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and Academia Sinica invite you to join us in Taipei, Taiwan during the week of 17 September 2007 for the Second International Barcode of Life Conference. It has now been more than two years since the first conference was held in London and the Barcode of Life Initiative has gained great momentum since that time.
There are now more than 200,000 DNA barcode records representing about 25,000 species and data are accumulating at an accelerating pace. Please join us at Academia Sinica in September to learn the latest developments.
There will also be a marine-focused side meeting on 17 September 2007 sponsored by the Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL).
In addition to the conference's three days of technical sessions, a number of technical meetings, workshops, and a short course will take place on the days immediately before and after the conference.
CONFERENCE TOPICS:
-Global Activities of the Barcode of Life Initiative (BOLI)
-Diverse Applications of DNA Barcoding
-How Does Barcoding Work and How Well Does it Work?
-Managing Barcode Data
-Analytical Methods for Barcode Data
-Integrative taxonomic studies using DNA barcoding
-Barcoding with non-CO1 gene regions
-DNA Barcoding in Developing Countries
-Barcoding in the Wider Evolutionary Context
-Goals for 2009
SIDE EVENTS
Monday, 17 September:
Friday, 21 September:
- Regional Barcode Meeting East, Southeast and South Asia
- Marine Barcode of Life Meeting
- Meeting of CBOL Plant Working Group
WEBSITE AND SECOND CIRCULAR:
www.dnabarcodes2007.org
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) convened a 2-day workshop designed to bring together lab managers and data managers involved in DNA barcoding from across the globe. The workshop was devoted to discussions of barcoding lab protocols and data management, and to creating a global cooperative network of barcoding labs. By creating and supporting this network of “Leading Labs,” CBOL hopes to help overcome the technical obstacles encountered by barcoding projects, increasing the flow of high-quality barcode data into the public domain.
This workshop, held at the University of Guelph from June 17-20, seeks to establish the International Barcode of Life Initiative (iBOL) as a formal, multi-national research enterprise. It is hoped that the research coalition will gain activation by January 2009. If so, within five years of that date, iBOL's work will have created a barcode reference library with 5M specimen records from 500K species. It will, as well, have simplified the protocols for barcode acquisition and analysis. Clear scientific plans, the mobilization of a broad community of researchers and the acquisition of funding will all be required to achieve iBOL's goals.
Further detailed information on both the workshop and ICI in general can be found at www.dnabacoding.org.
"DNA Barcoding" is a technique that uses genetic material from microgram samples to identify species of origin. It can identify parts of organisms and processed products such as bushmeat. The Consortium for the Barcode of Life is promoting tests of barcoding by parties to CITES, IGOs and NGOs.
Biodiversity Informatics and the Barcode of Life, May 29-30, 2007, at the Aarhus University, Denmark
Organisers: DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility; Aarhus University; The Natural History Museum of Denmark.
DNA BARCODING AND TAXONOMY
• The Use of DNA Barcoding in Taxonomy
• A New Paradigm for Natural History Collections
DNA BARCODING, APPLICATIONS AND THE NORDIC PERSPECTIVE
• DNA Barcoding and GBIF – Linking Barcode Information to Specimen Data
• Possible applications of DNA Barcoding in nature management
The conference is open to all. Anyone with interest in biodiversity, barcoding, taxonomy and related subjects is welcome.
For more information: www.danbif.dk/conference2007/
The EMBO Workshop, entitled "Molecular Biodiversity and DNA Barcode", will be held in Rome on May 17th-20th 2007.
The workshop will concentrate on the following:
1. Molecular Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics
2. DNA Barcode
3. Molecular Biodiversity in different lineages
4. Methodology and Computational Biology
5. Applications
To learn more please visit the conference website: http://cwp.embo.org/w07-28/
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) along with the USDA and Rutgers will convene the All-Fungi Barcode initiative workshop at the Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia on 13-15 May, 2007. The workshop is designed to bring together approximately 40 researchers from around the world to facilitate discussion on identifying universally applicable barcode gene regions and to plan a barcode initiative devoted to fungi. The workshop is being supported by a grant to Rutgers University by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
View pictures from the meeting.
The Canadian Barcode of Life Science Symposium took place May 10-11, 2007 at the University of Guelph.
The symposium followed the Opening of the Biodiversity Institute, the home of the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding and headquarters of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network. The conference showcased talks and posters from all Network participants on their current results in an open scientific Symposium. There were 120 registered participants, 50 posters, and best student posters were awarded to Gregg Robideau, Elizabeth Clare, Muhammad Setiadi, and Hana Kucera.
Additional Sessions to Include Discussions of Framing issues in Scientific Explanations, Launch of Online Encyclopedia of Life.
Program, Registration, Posters Online:
This first "Leading Lab" meeting is designed to bring together the lab and IT managers from the four leading barcoding centers: Guelph, SI-LAB, STRI, and BioCode. The meeting will be held at the University of Guelph.
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) held a regional meeting in Campinas, Brazil from 19-21 March 2007 to discuss the potential uses of “DNA barcoding” in the several areas related to Biodiversity in the Neo-tropical region. The meeting was co-sponsored by BioNET INTERNATIONAL, the Brazilian Ministry for Science and Technology (MCT/PPBio), the Brazilian Society for Progress of Science (SBPC), and the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN).
This meeting provided a unique opportunity to survey the DNA technology capacities of South American countries, and helped to determine the different needs and bottlenecks faced by each of the participant institutions. The experiences of each institution were shared through open discussions and helped to strengthen the South-South collaborative initiatives in DNA sequencing, biological collections, and database management.The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) supported the first meeting of the Neotropical working groups for the two main global barcoding projects, the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) and the Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL). The meeting was held at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires from 14-16 March 2007 and was co-sponsored by MACN, CONICET, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Census of Marine Life South America. During the meeting, the advances of each groups’ projects were presented, and the regional strategies for both initiatives were planned and discussed. Participants included researchers from the Neotropics and from other regions of the world with a strong interest and active involvement in the Neotropical birds and fishes.
Attendees:
Steve Newmaster - University of Guelph
Brian Husband - University of Guelph
Aron Fazekas - University of Guelph
Spencer Barrett - University of Toronto
Sean Graham - University of British Columbia (via telephone)
Diana Percy (via telephone)
Topics of Discussion:
1) Which gene regions are we to use?
2) Collaboration with Kew
3) New York plant barcoding meeting in January
4) Hiring the two remaining PDFs.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation held a Protist Barcoding Workshop in Portland, Maine, on 6-7 November 2006 (see Agenda links to presentations and Meeting Report)
CBOL held a successful second regional barcoding meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 16-17 October 2006. Future regional meetings are planned for Brazil in March 2007 and to be determined location in South Asia Spring 2007.
On October 16th, 2006, the Science Advisory Board for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network met at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), at the University of Guelph.
On October 16th, 2006, the Board of Directors for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network met at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), at the University of Guelph.
Site visit from Federal Biodiversity Information Partnership
CBOL's Data Analysis Working Group held an international workshop at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris on 6-8 July 2006 (see Meeting Report; pdf, 484Kb)
The Census of Marine Life held a DNA Barcoding Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 15-17 May 2006 (see Meeting Report (pdf, 194Kb) and agenda with links to presentations).
The National Research Council has released the pre-publication report (pdf, 486Kb) of a workshop on "the formalin problem". The workshop was organized by CBOL and was co-sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture, the US Environmental Protection Agency, New England Biolabs, Sigma-Aldrich Corp., the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCENT) at Duke University, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
The first meeting of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network was held at the Chateau Cartier in Gatineau, Quebec on May 4th, 2006.
CBOL held a regional barcode meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on 7-8 April 2006 (see Meeting Report; pdf, 377Kb). Future regional meetings are planned for southern Asia, eastern Africa and South America.
Researchers from the Canadian Barcode of Life Network involved in the insect research programs met at the University of Guelph. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
The Science Advisory Board for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network met at the University of Guelph. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
Members of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network involved in fish held a planning meeting on February 3rd, 2006. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph.
On December 8th, 2005, members of the Fungi Working Group of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network (www.bolnet.ca) met to outline plans for barcoding fungi in Canada. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph.
On December 5th, 2005, members of the Protist Working Group of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network (www.bolnet.ca) met to outline plans for barcoding protists in Canada. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph.
The Canadian Barcode of Life Network (www.bolnet.ca) is a national network of researchers focused on barcoding Canada's flora and fauna. On November 11th, 2005, members of the Plant Working Group met to outline plans for barcoding the nation's plant life. This meeting was hosted by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph.
The conference was organized under the auspices of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Natural History Museum, London. Please visit the conference website here.