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Within the past week we've had two new discussions added to Connect:

• Definition of an acceptable Fungal ITS barcode started by Conrad Schoch…

In the past week Connect member Natasha de Vere added lots of new images to her photo album, Barcode Wales, which highlights her work as the Head of Conservation and Research at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

Also, there have been 10 new members who join the Connect…

In the past week we’ve had 8 new members join the Connect community - have you had a chance to get to know them yet?

• Siji Mol is a researcher/faculty member at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
• Shrawan Kumar is a doctoral student at North-Eastern Hill University in India…

On December 12 and 13, 2011, a workshop on “DNA barcoding: which perspectives and applications in Italy?” was held at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

The aims of the workshop were to discuss DNA barcoding applications, to take a census of Italian public and private labs that rely on…

For people whose talks are posted on SlideShare, but have had problems with slide timing:  I've just sent Adriana a corrected list of timings for my two presentations.  If this works well, I'll post another note with more information for other speakers. -- Julie Stahlhut

Bring your barcoder/tricorder/smartphone to Closing Reception!

Discover "BOLD: A Cryptic Species Complex" interactive art in Museum foyer

http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=21&catid=22&id=365&view=article

The Adelaide Conference is now in full swing after two days of pre-conference training sessions and the opening plenary session.  The organizers squeezed a few more 'side-meetings' into the lunch hour and the rooms were packed!  I attended one devoted to practlcal applications of barcoding and there were about 60 representatives from private companies and government agencies.  I expected to hear about the need for a handheld barcoder or bureaucratic obstacles and legal barriers to…

"Barcode of Plant in China" is a group of scientists who strive for pushing DNA barcoding of the Chinese plants forward. It is neither an official organization nor a profit-making company. The Group has constructed a useful database of Panax (ginseng) and started services free of charge. Current activity of the Group is to barcode Rosaceae and some nature reserves. We welcome any kinds of cooperation or…

Genetics is, more than ever, an essential and efficient tool for species diversity studies and the use of genetic applications will be of greater use to formulate management decisions for the conservation and restoration of the Natural ecosystems and endangered taxa.…

The final agenda for the Adelaide Barcode Conference will be released this week and you’ll see that it will be a busy week.  Even with all the parallel sessions and evening social events, the organizers had additional requests for meeting rooms.  We’ve organized these into ‘side meetings’ because they won’t be scheduled opposite any plenary or technical sessions so they won’t compete for your attention.  Most of them will be held from 13:00 to 14:00 during the lunch break.  We hope…

MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS, NIGERIA LAUNCHES THE FIRST CENTRE FOR DNA BARCODING IN NIGERIA AND WEST AFRICA. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FORMAL PRESENTATION AT THE AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE

There will be a session on Polar barcoding at the upcoming conference in Adelaide. We hope that our session will be interesting for many of you and plan to both show progress in WG1.10 Polar Life, show new results on particular organism groups and discuss future collaboration and funding opportunities. Please visit the…

Dear Colleagues

This is to let you know that Department of Biotechnology, Government of India has sanctioned a project to barcode marine molluscs of India as a multi-institutional project involving Rajiv Gandhi Centre for…

Recovering DNA Barcodes from Degraded Genetic Material in Natural History Collections.

Natural history collections are invaluable resources of reference material, allowing field collected specimens to be linked to the established taxonomic framework.  Even older specimens of dubious appearance might contain useful genetic material, which obviously says a lot about the increase in the value of natural history collections that derive from ongoing improvements in technology. …

Registration for the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference in Adelaide, South Australia (28 November - 3 December 2011) is about to surpass the records for all past conferences.

The 2007 Taipei…

The Program Committee of the Adelaide Barcode Conference has finished the massive job of reviewing 493 abstracts and organizing them into sessions.  This task was completed by members of the Conference Program Committee and about 40 volunteer Session Organizers who will be chairing sessions at the Conference.  The Conference organizers offer them a big THANK YOU for their contributions.

You can see the resulting …

The organizers of the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference issued calls for abstracts and applications for travel bursaries at the beginning of April 2011 and due to the high number of responses the deadlines were extended into July.  By the time the last submissions arrived through the online system, the response totaled more than double those of previous barcode conferences.  We received:

• 490 abstracts…