international online community for dna barcoding professionals

Introductions

Welcome to Connect, the DNA Barcoder community network!

We hope this network will be a place for communication and collaboration on a global scale, overcoming the rather dispersed nature of DNA barcoder researchers and enthusiasts.

As a first step, why not introduce yourself to the community via the comment box below? Including your name, institution, interest in DNA barcoding, and what you hope to get from this community would be a great way to start.

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Permalink Reply by Camiel Doorenweerd on December 17, 2010 at 10:30am

Hello,

I am Camiel Doorenweerd, employed on the DNA Barcoding project at the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis. We are setting-up our lab and creating our pipe-line to reach about 12000 barcoded specimens a year. I am involved in all levels of this, from creating protocols to doing the actual pipetting, from designing the pipe-line to ordering the machines. We have started a few small scale (hundreds of specimens) barcoding projects to see where the we need to invest and aim to ramp up to the bigger projects in the beginning of 2011.

I'll be keeping track of this connect site to see what's going on in the world of barcoding, to meet new people, and of course to find the latest tricks :)

regards

Camiel

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Permalink Reply by Lyndell M. Bade on February 14, 2012 at 1:50pm

Hi Camiel,

I hope your work is going well...it sounds like an awesome undertaking! I see this was posted back in December 2010...how was 2011 for you? Did you reach your barcoding goals? I'm starting to sequence my shellfish tomorrow, and wanted to connect with other people doing barcoding work as well. If you know of anyone who works on shellfish, or have heard of sites/references/papers that I should know about, feel free to pass on a comment or message. I look forward to hearing more about your work!

All the Best,

Lyndell

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Permalink Reply by Chelzie Crenna Darusallam on December 29, 2010 at 2:22am

Hi everyone!

I am Chelzie Crenna Darusallam, research assistant of Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Indonesia. I am working on the fish DNA barcode project. Nowadays, I am in the pilot project to adapting DNA barcode for microorganism identification. It would be glad if I can discuss it with the others..

Cheers,

Chelzie

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Permalink Reply by Emerson Bezerra on January 6, 2011 at 4:25pm

Hi there,

I am Emerson, from Brazil, and I just graduated from college. This year I will try to attempt to a master program in Zoology. I'm interested in clitelates (earthworms and leeches) taxonomy. I'm still trying to learn about barcoding, but I already know that it is an amazing tool for many kinds of analyses, specially for identification and for solving taxonomic issues. I hope someday I have an opportunity to have a practical training on barcoding technics.

Regards,

Emerson.

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Permalink Reply by Kare Liimatainen on January 14, 2011 at 11:20am

Hi all,

I am Kare Liimatainen and I am working at the Department of Biosciences,
University of Helsinki, Finland. The focus of my PhD thesis is the molecular
taxonomy of Cortinarius (Agaricales, Fungi), with a special interest on finding
suitable DNA markers for species delimitation and recognition (barcoding). I
have mainly used ITS-region, but also a little bit of RPB2 and IGS1 regions.
One of my main ideas also is to try to stabilize the nomenclature, so I have
been trying to sequence old type specimens. It can sometimes be done even from
the oldest herbarium specimens (over 100 years old) . I have collected fungal
material mostly in North Europe, but also in Central and South Europe and North
America.

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Permalink Reply by Fabrizio Stefani on January 20, 2011 at 8:49am

Dear All,

I am Fabrizio Stefani and I work at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. I'm interested in phylogeny, phylogeography and species boundaries delimitation trough a molecular approach. In particular, I and other colleagues, would be interested in developing a barcode protocols and database for scleractinian corals. Hope to have a tight collaboration here in this promising net!

Fabrizio

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Permalink Reply by Ledile Mankga on January 28, 2011 at 2:40pm

Dear Kris,

Thank you for accepting me.

I am a postgraduate student at the University of Johannesburg.My research focus is: DNA Barcoding Medicinal Plants of South Africa.I am very excited to be part of this Barcode of Life community, to learn more about barcoding projects, and connect with others who would like to be involved with my work.

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Permalink Reply by Aslam on February 15, 2011 at 12:34pm

Hello every one! I am Aslam, working as Assistant Professor of Botany, at Jamal Mohamed College, India. I am interested in Plant working group. I am in the initial stages of contributing to the science of DNA barcoding. Few areas of interest are as follows.

1. Evolution of cytokinin metabolism in land plants (manuscript preparation is in progress). In the third IBOL conference, I sent an abstract in this topic and I was unable to attend)

2. Identification of endophytic microbes in symptomless tissues of medicinal plants (few of my masters students have isolated these and PCR reactions are on).

We normally outsource for sequencing. At our place barcoding is done mostly for microbes, insects and plants are being neglected group.

Nice to be in touch with this professional network. Thanks to the IBOL initiative.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Mustafa S. Faddagh on February 23, 2011 at 7:01am

I am Dr. Mustafa S. Faddagh, Ph.D. in Molecular Ecology
I work in Marine Science center-University of Basrah-Iraq.
I have an experience in Genomic researches.
I interest to learn DNA Barcoding of aquatic animals particularly Fish species.
But I actually need to learn DNA data management and Bioinformatics.

I would appreciate if there is an oppertunity to study the both above topics to assist my speciality in Genome.

I n the same time I will be ready to answer and collaborate with researchers in Genomic.

Many thanks to dear Kris

Dr. Mustafa

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Permalink Reply by Giulia Fassio on March 1, 2011 at 5:46am

Hello! I am studying biology at University of Rome "La Sapienza". My thesis is on DNA-barcode of Antarctica molluscs museum samples, mainly bivalvia and gasteropoda, conserved in ethanol since 2004. Now I am trying to extract and amplify but I have some problem (maybe wrong primers) with several samples.

I have just join this community but I think that will be very helpful!

Best :D

Giulia

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Permalink Reply by Lyndell M. Bade on February 14, 2012 at 1:57pm

Hello Giulia,

I hope your research is going well! Were you able to extract and amplify your ethanol-preserved tissue samples? Did you have to move to different primers? And which ones did you try? I am starting sequencing my shellfish samples (bivalves) tomorrow, actually! I would love to hear more about your work, and I would greatly appreciate any tips/suggestions/guidance you may have for me.

All the Best,

Lyndell

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Permalink Reply by Sourajyoti Chakraborty on March 5, 2011 at 3:52am

Hello,

I am Sourajyoti Chakraborty, undergraduate student majoring in Zoology at Karimganj College, Assam University. Its in one of the remotest areas of North-Eastern India. I am very much interested in Systematic Zoology and I was very much amazed when I learnt that many new species are being discovered based on DNA Barcoding. Thus my interest grew in DNA Barcoding. Neither I have any access to the infrastructure required for Barcoding nor I am involved in any research projects, but still to know and learn the basics I joined CBOL.

I also want to attend workshops, seminars, webinars on DNA Barcoding techniques and get some hands on training. So any information about such activities in India from anyone will be more than welcome.

Seeking support,

With warm regards,

Sourajyoti Chakraborty.