Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global Biodiversity. Subprograms will include: Digitization, Semantic Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications, Trait Data, and Conservation informatics. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society and XII Reunión Argentina de Cladística y Biogeografia will be hosted this year by the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN). This will be the second time that the Willi Hennig Society’s annual meeting is held in Argentina, now for the first time in Buenos Aires. The meeting will take place at the MACN, a 200-year old institution with a strong tradition in taxonomy and systematics, which is part of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). The museum is currently composed of a permanent staff that includes 67 full time researches and 58 doctoral students. MACN holds 24 national collections of Botany, Paleontology, Geology, and Zoology that can be visited during the meeting with prior appointment with the respective curators. The meeting itself will take place in the newly renovated auditorium of the museum. Coffee breaks and poster sessions will be held also in the museum. The MACN is placed in the geographical center of Buenos Aires, with nearby restaurants and lodging as well as easy access to public transportation, including local buses and subway. ... [Information of the supplier]
We are happy to announce that 2013 is the 10 year anniversary of DNA barcoding and we plan to celebrate this milestone in Kunming, China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ and Kunming Institute of Botany are pleased to be hosting this year’s conference. The conference will consist of four days of plenary and parallel sessions. Preconference events, such as discussion meetings focusing on advances in sequencing and informatics techniques will be held on the Sunday before the conference. There is also a Training Course associated with the conference (max 30 delegates). Past conferences have brought together participants from over 60 countries, including researchers, students, government officials, and representatives of NGOs and private companies. This year’s conference hosts, the Chinese Academy of Science and Kunming Institute of Botany, have provided a venue that hosts up to 500 participants. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Scientific Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference will be held from August 18 – 21, 2015 at the University of Guelph, one of Canada’s major life science universities. Guelph couples easy access to a major airport with the simple logistics of a small Canadian city, ensuring that conference participants will be able to focus on science. Since 2003, DNA barcoding has become the largest research program in biodiversity science, one examining all eukaryote kingdoms and spanning many nations. Reflecting the scope of the program, numerous major international collaborative projects are underway. The 6th Conference will sustain traditions established by the five earlier conferences; it will showcase the latest scientific achievements and socio-economic implications of work conducted by the DNA barcode research community. The theme of the 6th Conference, Barcodes to Biomes, signals the ongoing expansion of our community’s research agenda from studies on particular sets of species in particular places to work which is creating the capability to examine entire biotic assembles at local and global scales. ... [Information of the supplier]
2017-11-20 — 2017-11-24, Skukuza/Kruger National Park
The African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB), The International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL), The Department of Environmental affairs (DEA) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is proud to announce and welcome delegates to our hosting of the 7th International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Conference, 20 – 24 November 2017. This is the first time that this event will be held on the African continent. The venue for the hosting of this prestigious event will be the Nombolo Mdhluli Conference Centre, Skukuza, located within the heart of African wildlife, the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Our intention is to make this a global conference with a distinctive African flavour, using the event to highlight, support and encourage African researchers across the continent and to link them up with the global barcoding network. The conference format will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions comprising invited and contributed/selected talks as well as poster presentations. The optional first day (20 November) will be devoted to training workshops. The major theme of the conference is exploring mega-diverse biotas with DNA barcodes. A series of presentations and workshops will focus on the use of DNA to understand diversity patterns and ecological processes in species-rich and complicated ecosystems. The conference also provides a general forum for presentations, posters and discussion on the wider field of DNA barcoding. ... [Information of the supplier]
The NTNU University Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre in collaboration with NorBOL has the great pleasure of inviting you to the 8th International Barcode of Life Conference in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-20, 2019. [Information of the supplier]
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is an online workbench that aids collection, management, analysis, and use of DNA barcodes. It consists of 3 components (MAS, IDS, and ECS) that each address the needs of various groups in the barcoding community. It provides a repository for barcode records, storing specimen data and images as well as sequences and trace files. It provides an efficient interface for submitting barcode records to GenBank. It provides an identification engine based on the current barcode library. It monitors the number of barcode sequence records and species coverage. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
To date, the three major Codes of type-based organismal nomenclature have been developed with almost an exclusive attention to the needs and history of names for their focal set of organisms (animals, plants, prokayotes). The newly released draft of a BioCode, presented here, aims to provide a framework for the existing Codes to grow towards each other in the future and promote common rules to minimise confusion among names of any organism. It is a collaborative effort by representatives of each major organismal Code. It is, in this respect, a largely forward-looking document. ... [Information of the supplier]
The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases is a not for profit scientific and educational association, affiliated to the International Union of Biological Sciences, formed to establish international collaboration among biological database projects so as to promote the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the World's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS) will be held in concert with the 22nd International Symposium “Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology” of the German Botanical Society (DBG), March 24 - 27, 2014, on the campus of the Technische Universität Dresden. Expecting more than 400 participants, this joint conference will be conducted collaboratively by Prof. Dr. Uwe Fritz, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden and Prof. Dr. Christoph Neinhuis, Institute for Botany, TU Dresden. Main topics are ... Phylogenomics; Integrative Taxonomy / Phylogenetics, Systematics; Biogeography & Molecular Clocks; Morphology, Development & Evolution; Ethnobotany; Plant Form and Function / Biomechanics and Biomimetics; and Plant Animal Interaction. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
