November 2011 Blog Posts (7)

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…