CBOL Newsletter

Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Issue No. 1

February, 2008

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In this issue:

Message from the Chair

Message from Executive Secretary

News from CBOL's Secretariat Office

Call for Nominations to Executive Committee

CBOL's New Terms of Reference

Upcoming Events

Recent Events and Reports

CBOL Promoting Barcode Science

Case Study Portal

Message from the Chair

CBOL is happy to send this inaugural newsletter to our 160 Member Organizations.  We hope to send future newsletters on a quarterly basis so please send your suggestions for improving it to CBOLInfo@si.edu.  CBOL has been in existence for almost four years and we expect to be expanding our activities in 2008.  Read more...

Message from Executive Secretary

CBOL’s Executive Committee met immediately after the Second International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei. The Committee agreed to revise CBOL's structure and to call for nominations to replace three Executive Committee members whose terms have expired.  Read more...

News from CBOL's Secretariat Office

The Secretariat staff is expanding and launching new projects.  Here’s an introduction to the staff and what they’ll be doing in 2008.  Read more

Call for Nominations to Executive Committee

Jim Edwards, Richard Lane, and José Alves-Gomes have served on the Executive Committee since 2005 and their terms of appointment have come to an end.  CBOL salutes their outstanding contributions and calls for nominations from Member Organizations for new Executive Committee members.  Read more...

CBOL's New Terms of Reference

CBOL’s Executive Committee has replaced the Scientific Advisory Board with an Implementation Board, disestablished the DNA Working Group, established the Leading Labs Network, and clarified the responsibilities of the Executive Committee.  Read more

Upcoming Events

CBOL will be sponsoring technical sessions and outreach events in Brazil, at the SBSTTA meeting in Rome, and the European Open Science Forum in Barcelona in the coming monthsRead more

Hot Links

Barcode Blog

Memorandum of Cooperation

CBOL website

Available Positions

Recent Events and Reports

Information is now available about CBOL’s recent meetings, including the Second International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei.  Several new barcoding projects have been funded recently.  Read more...

CBOL's Role in Barcoding Science

One of the side-meetings held at the Second International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei was devoted to plant barcoding.  The search for a suitable barcoding region for vascular plants goes all the way back to CBOL's inaugural meeting at the Smithsonian in May 2004, and based on the discussions in Taipei we may be close to a solution. Read more...

Case Study Portal

CBOL has created an online Case Study Portal as a system for posting barcoding projects that people have planned or are conducting.  It’s a way of finding partners for your project or finding a project that you can join?  Read more...