Second International Barcode of Life Conference

meeting report

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relevant documents

CBOL Outreach Materials

• BOLI Brochure
• Ten Reasons to Barcode

September 17, 2007

• DNA Short Course
• Fish Barcode of Life Meeting
• All Fungi DNA Barcoding Workshop

September 18-20, 2007

• Conference Abstracts
• Conference Program

September 21, 2007

• Regional Barcode Meeting for South, East and Southeast Asia
• Marine Barcode of Life Meeting
• CBOL Plant Working Group Meeting

conference program

DAY ONE: TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2007

SESSION 1: GLOBAL ACTIVITIES OF THE BARCODE OF LIFE INITIATIVE (BOLI)

Moderator: Karen Armstrong, Chair, Conference Program Committee, Lincoln University, New Zealand

8:00 – 9:00	Conference Registration
9:00 – 9:30	Conference Opening – Kwang–Tsao Shao, Conference Chair, Academia Sinica
9:30 – 10:00	Keynote I –DNA Barcoding in the Genome Era – Ya–Ping Zhang, Kuming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science	presentation
10:00 – 10:30	Keynote II – Biodiversity Research and DNA Barcoding in Korea – Won Kim, Seoul National University	presentation
10:30 – 11:00	Keynote III: Barcoding in Applied Taxonomic Challenges– Helida Oyieke, National Museums of Kenya	presentation
11:00 – 11:30	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2: DIVERSE APPLICATIONS OF DNA BARCODING

Moderator: Jesse Ausubel, Sloan Foundation

11:30 – 11:45	Progress by CBOL since London Conference – Scott Miller, Smithsonian Institution (CBOL)	presentation
11:45 – 12:45	Brief presentations and panel discussion of major barcoding projects Yvonne Linton, Natural History Museum London, CBOL Demonstrator Project 1: Mosquito Barcode Initiative Marc De Meyer, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Belgium, CBOL Demonstrator Project 2: Tephritid Barcode Initiative Mark Stoeckle, The Rockefeller University, All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) Update Robert Hanner, University of Guelph, Fish Barcode of Life (FISH–BOL) Campaign Mark Bagley, US Environmental Protection Agency, DNA Barcodes for Assessment of the Biological Integrity of Aquatic Ecosystems Ann Bucklin, University of Connecticut, DNA Barcoding of the Global Marine Zooplankton Assemblage
12:45 – 1:00	Open discussion between audience and panel
1:00 – 2:30	LUNCH

SESSION 3: HOW DOES BARCODING WORK AND HOW WELL DOES IT WORK?

Moderator: Chaolun Allen Chen, Research Centre Biodiversity Academia Sinica

2:30 – 3:00	Keynote Address– Toward a Barcoded World Paul Hebert, University of Guelph	presentation
3:00 – 3:15	The BARCODE Data Standard: Enabling Molecular Diagnostics for Biodiversity–Bob Hanner, University of Guelph	presentation
3:15 – 3:30	Barcoding in an all–species inventory – Chris Meyer, University of California Berkeley	presentation
3:30 – 3:45	Barcodes bridge the old and the new: use of museum specimens to identify molecular operational taxonomic units in larvae of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) Andrew Mitchell, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia	presentation
3:45 – 4:00	DNA barcode, type specimens and species delimitation in the genus Eumunida Sarah Samadi, Museum National d'Histoire Naturel, Paris	presentation
4:00 – 4:30	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4: HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO HAND–HELD, FIELD–FRIENDLY, OR TABLE–TOP BARCORDERS?

Moderator: Dan Janzen, University of Pennsylvania

4:30 – 4:45	In vitro repair enhances amplicon recovery and accuracy from damaged DNA –Tom Evans, New England Biolabs	presentation
4:45 – 5:00	Express Barcodes: Racing from Bugs to Identifications –Natalia Ivanova, University of Guelph	presentation
5:00 – 5:15	Development of a DNA barcode–based DNA chip for identification of marine organisms in the East Sea of Korea –Youn–Ho Lee, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute	presentation
5:15 – 5:30	Fish and Chips: microarray–based DNA–barcoding of European Marine Fishes – Kochzius Marc, University of Bremen	presentation
5:30 – 5:45	Portable Pyrosequencing device for DNA sequencing –Mostafa Ronaghi, Stanford University
5:45 – 6:00	Open discussion between audience and speakers

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2007

SESSION 5: ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR BARCODE DATA.

Moderator: Javier Cabrera, Rutgers University

8:30 – 8:45	Introduction–Michel Veuille, Museum National d’Histoire Naturel Paris	presentation
8:45 – 9:00	Comparing phylogenetic and statistical classification methods for DNA barcoding – Frederic Austerlitz, CNRS/AgroParisTech/Universite Paris Sud
9:00 – 9:15	Fast Barcode–Based Species Identification Using String Kernels – Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University	presentation
9:15 – 9:30	Species Classification with Optimized Logic Formulas – Giovanni Felici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche	presentation
9:30 – 9:45	DNA Barcode sequence identification incorporating taxonomic hierarchy and within taxon variability – Damon Little, The New York Botanical Garden	presentation
9:45 – 10:00	A Comparison of Algorithms for Species Identification based on DNA barcodes – Bogdan Pasaniuc, University of Connecticut	presentation
10:00 – 10:30	Open discussion between audience and speakers
10:30 – 11:00	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 6: CASE STUDIES I. INTEGRATIVE TAXONOMIC STUDIES USING DNA BARCODING

Moderator: Shen–Horn Yen, National Sun Yat–Sen University, Taiwan

11:00 – 11:20	Barcoding, Biogeography and Evolution in the Tropics of the New World – Biff Bermingham, STRI, Panama	presentation
11:20 – 11:40	The role of DNA Barcoding in the broader context of Integrative Taxonomy – Benoit Dayrat, University of California, Merced	presentation
11:40 – 12:00	The role of DNA Barcoding in the broader context of Integrative Taxonomy – Benoit Dayrat, University of California, Merced	presentation
12:00 – 12:20	Sphingids and Barcodes– The New Taxonomy– Rodolphe Rougerie, University of Guelph	presentation
12:00 – 12:20	Bamboozled by bloodsuckers: barcoding backs biodiversity– Mark Siddall, American Museum of Natural History	presentation
12:20 – 12:30	Open discussion between audience and speakers
12:30 – 2:00	LUNCH/Group photo at front gate of Academia Sinica

SESSION 7: WHAT NEW SCIENCE WILL WE SEE AT THE THIRD BARCODE CONFERENCE?

Moderator: Cecilia Saccone, CNR, Bari, Italy

2:00 – 2:20	Barcoding and biodiversity research – Les Christidis, Australian Museum	presentation
2:20 – 2:40	"Ecological inventory with a barcorder, the ecological taxascope: who eats what in a complex tropical forest" – Dan Janzen, University of Pennsylvania	presentation
2:40 – 3:40	Panel discussion: What new research can we do with a MILLION Barcode records? Paul De Barro, CSIRO, Australia Peter Ng, National University of Singapore Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz Robert Andersen, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
3:40 – 4:00	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 8: CASE STUDIES II. DNA BARCODING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

Moderator: Helida Oyieke, National Museums of Kenya

4:00 – 4:20	DNA Barcoding: considerations for vectors of neglected diseases– Daniel Masiga, ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya	presentation
4:20 – 4:40	All Birds Barcoding Initiative in the Neotropics: Identifying and discovering bird species in the richest avifauna of the World – Pablo Tubaro, National Museum of Natural History, Argentina	presentation
4:40 – 5:00	FISH–BOL and Barcoding in India – Wazir Lakra, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, India	presentation
5:00 – 5:15	Transforming taxonomy for effective biodiversity assessment of arthropods in Madagascar –Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences	presentation
5:15 – 5:30	Construction of A DNA Barcode System for Amphibians and Reptiles in Taiwan –Si–Min Lin, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan	presentation
5:30 – 5:45	Open discussion between audience and speakers

DAY 3: THURSDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2007

SESSION 9: BARCODING IN THE WIDER EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT

Moderator: Ya–Ping Zhang, Kuming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science

8:30 – 9:30	Panel discussion: Barcoding and other initiatives in evolutionary research Michael Donoghue, Yale University, Assembling the Tree of Life Masaki Miya, Natural History Museum, Chiba University, Evolutionary History of Fishes: An overview based on >1000 whole mitochondrial genome sequences Dan Faith, The Australian Museum, How large–scale barcoding promotes large–scale biodiversity assessment Richard Lane, Natural History Museum London, Barcoding and the practice of systematics
9:30 – 10:00	Open discussion between audience and panel
10:00 – 10:30	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 10: STATE–OF–THE–ART PRACTICES: HOW TO MANAGE YOUR BARCODE DATA.

Moderator: Bob Hanner, University of Guelph, Database Working Group Chair

10:30 – 10:50	BOLD, the Barcoding Workbench – Sujeevan Ratnasingham, University of Guelph	presentation
10:50 – 11:50	Panel discussion: How are the BAROCDE data standards being implemented? Scott Federhen, NCBI/NIH, BARCODE records in GenBank Simon Tillier, Museum National d’Histoire Naturel, Paris, BARCODE data, museum, catalogs and GBIF Andrew Polaszek, ICZN, London, Zoobank– the open–access animal name registry–working with CBOL towards the new taxonomy
11:50 – 12:10	The Encyclopedia of Life: A website for every species – James Edwards, Smithsonian Institution (EOL)	presentation
12:10 – 12:30	Open discussion between audience and speakers
12:30 – 2:00	LUNCH

SESSION 11: STATE–OF–THE–ART PRACTICES: HOW DO THE BEST BARCODE LABS DO THEIR WORK?

Moderator: Paul Hebert, University of Guelph

2:00 – 2:20	Technology Transfer, an efficient DNA barcoding workflow: how we do it and more importantly to you, how we can help you do it– Lee Weigt, Chair, CBOL DNA Working Group, Smithsonian Institution	presentation
2:20 – 2:40	African Wildlife Tissue Banking – Paul Bartels, BioBank, South Africa	presentation
2:40 – 3:00	Recovering historic DNA (HDNA) and ancient DNA (ADNA): Implications for DNA barcoding – David Lambert, Allan Wilson Centre, New Zealand	presentation
3:00 – 3:20	Exploring archival and environmental samples through minimalist barcodes– Mehrdad Hajibabaei, University of Guelph	presentation
3:20 – 3:30	Open discussion between audience and speakers
3:30 – 4:00	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 12: BARCODING WITH NON–COI GENE REGIONS.

Moderator: Freek Bakker, Chair, CBOL Scientific Advisory Board, Wageningen University

4:00 – 4:20	Optimising selection of DNA barcode regions and CBOL’s guidelines for non–CO1 selection Freek Bakker, University of Wageningen, Netherlands Herbarium	presentation
4:20 – 4:40	Standardized land plant barcoding requires a multi–loci approach – Robyn Cowan, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	presentation
4:40 – 5:00	Using DNA barcodes to test the identity and purity of plant–based medicines and herbals – John Kress, Smithsonian Institution	presentation
5:00 – 5:20	DNA–barcoding on a different scale: Challenges within Coccoidea – Lyn Cook, University of Queensland	presentation
5:20 – 5:40	Canadian plant barcoding results with some global implications – Sean Graham, University of British Columbia	presentation
5:40 – 6:00	Progress toward DNA barcoding the vast diversity of fungi– Amy Rossman, USDA Beltsville	presentation

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