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DNA Barcoding for CoML Workshop

The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Trippenhuis, No. 29 Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam

Monday, May 15th PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM

1:00 pm Welcome

1:30 pm DNA Barcoding in Broad View

- Paul Hebert ( University of Guelph, Canada)(ppt, 180Mb)

2:00 pm DNA Barcoding: the CBOL Perspective

- Freek Bakker (National Herbarium, the Netherlands)(ppt, 900Kb)

2:30 pm Taxonomy and Species Discovery

- James Hanken ( Harvard University, USA)(pdf, 7Mb)

3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm FISH- BOL: the Fish Barcode of Life Campaign

- Bob Ward (CSIRO, Australia)(ppt, 1.1 Mb)

4:00 pm Barcoding for CoML: Assessing Zooplankton Diversity

- Ann Bucklin ( University of Connecticut, USA)(ppt, 61Mb)

4:30 pm Using DNA Barcodes to Study Marine Invasions

- Jon Geller (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, USA)(ppt, 8Mb)

5:00 pm Capacity Development and Education for the Barcode of Life: Meeting the Demand for Knowledge and Skills.

- D. Chandramohan (National Inst. of Oceanography, India)(ppt, 2Mb)

5:30 pm Summary

6:00 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Welcome Reception

 

Tuesday, May 16th BARCODING PROTOCOLS and PRACTICES

[Note: Moderators will speak for 5-10 minutes; all contributed presentations 5 minutes / 5 slides maximum please, to allow for open discussion]

9:00 am Overview of the barcoding protocol chain

- David Schindel (CBOL)(ppt, 700Kb)

9:30 am Data management & data standards for barcoding

Moderator: Bob Hanner (FISH- BOL, CBOL)

- CBOL and NCBI data requirements and standards (Bob Hanner)

10:00 am Specimen sources, collection, and shipping

Moderator: Lee Weigt (Smithsonian)

10:30 am Fixing, preserving and curating specimens

Moderator: Christoffer Schander ( MAR-ECO)

- The formalin question (Christoffer Schander)

11:00 am Coffee break

11:30 am Molecular protocols

Moderator: Keith Crandall (ATOL)

- Ribosomal genes as barcodes for microbial eukaryotes (Jan Pawlowski)

- Tag sequencing approaches for barcoding (Mitch Sogin)

- Exhaustive analysis of zooplankton mtCOI genes (Ryuji Machida)

- Multiple mitochondrial pseudogenes from a copepod (Ryuji Machida)

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Taxonomic issues: identifying, naming, describing species

Moderator: Rob de Salle (CBOL)

- Character-based diagnosis of species boundaries (Rob de Salle)

- Contributions from GBIF (Larry Speers)

2:30 pm Data analysis and display

Moderator: Endre Willassen (CoML)

- Identifying genes in cyberspace – Endre Willassen

- DNA-Surveillance tool – Shane Lavery

3:00 pm Infrastructure, coordination, and capacity-building

Moderator: Nancy Knowlton (CoML)

- Approaches to implementing a CoML barcoding effort (Nancy Knowlton)

- Outreach needs for barcoding marine life (James Woods)

- The MOOREA approach (Chris Meyer)(ppt, 10Mb)

- Cephalopod Steering Committee ( Bob Ward & Victoria Wadley)

- Zooplankton sampling for barcoding in Antarctic / South China Seas (Sun Song)

- Status and challenges of barcoding fish in Africa (Ernst Swartz)

3:30 pm Coffee break


4:00 pm Open discussion

Moderators: Paul Hebert (CBOL) & Ann Bucklin (CoML)

5:30 pm Summation: David Schindel (CBOL)

6:00 pm Adjourn

 

Wednesday, May 17 th BARCODING FOR CoML

9:00 am DNA barcoding: opportunities for CoML (Jesse Ausubel)(ppt, 500Kb)

9:30 am Barcoding for CoML: current activities and future plans

[Note: All presentations 5 minutes / 5 slides only please]

11:00 am Coffee break

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Coordination with other programs and projects

3:30 pm Coffee break

3:45 pm Goals for accomplishments for 2007 and 2010

4:30 pm Next steps and action items

5:30 pm Adjourn