The Smithsonian Institute for Biodiversity Genomics (SIBG) and BGI are co-organizing the inaugural Global Biodiversity Genomics Conference to be held 20-23 February 2017 in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and at the JW Marriott Washington DC hotel. The opening day of the conference will feature a Plenary Address by E.O. Wilson and 4 featured sessions on Conservation, Ecological, Environmental, and Diversity Genomics. The day will conclude with a reception in the Rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History. Subsequent days sessions will occur at the conference hotel venue, the JW Marriott Washington DC. The Global Biodiversity Genomics Conference will bring together thought leaders, research and academic scientists, and IT professionals. The conference will be the first to address the move from human to non-human biodiversity genomics; it will also be the first to focus on the interactions and synergies among biodiversity researchers, technologists, software developers, and research computing professionals. ... [Information of the supplier]
With its third international conference "GGBN 2018" taking place in Vienna from May 22nd to 25th, GGBN along with the accompanying organizing institutions will focus on topics related to the exploration of the wealth of diversity that is currently stored in biodiversity biobanks worldwide. Surrounding the main theme of "The International Day for Biological Diversity" proclaimed by the United Nations, sessions will cover agricultural, forest and environmental biodiversity and their characterization by state-of-the-art genomic, phenomic and molecular tools. This characterization process is a substantial part of any long-term strategy to ensure the preservation of biodiversity and thereby to secure the foundation for subsistence of mankind. ... [Information of the supplier]
