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
2:00 pm DNA Barcoding: the CBOL Perspective
- Freek Bakker (National Herbarium, the Netherlands)(ppt, 900Kb)
2:30 pm Taxonomy and Species Discovery
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm FISH- BOL: the Fish Barcode of Life Campaign
4:00 pm Barcoding for CoML: Assessing Zooplankton Diversity
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
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