Recent Activity on Connect - Jan. 27, 2012

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

• Definition of an acceptable Fungal ITS barcode started by Conrad Schoch
• DNA Barcode development from gene sequence data started by Amol Bharat Ghodke

There have also been two new publications added by Matthew Sileo:

• Myth of the molecule: DNA barcodes for species cannot replace morphology for identification and classification
• The promise of a DNA taxonomy

We’ve also had 7 new members join the Connect community - have you had a chance to get to know them?

• Keith Rennolls is Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Greenwich, and is interested in using barcode data in taxonomy/systematic biology
• Jayaraj Gorantla evaluated the genetic diversity of some important Eucalyptus species using DNA barcoding as part of their doctoral research at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada
• Stanley Blum is a researcher at the California Academy of Sciences in the U.S.A. and is interested in biodiversity informatics, standards, and interoperability
• Rob Cruickshank is a researcher at Lincoln University
• Neha Arora is a doctoral student at B.H.U, and is interested in the Vertebrates working group
• Christian is a Biologist at CNRS who is currently working on the usage of COI marker for potato pests identification and systematics
• Luciano Gomes Fischer is a doctoral student at FURG in Brazil, and is interested in FISH-BOL and MarBOL

Check back often to find out what's happening on Connect!