Archive for May, 2015

Bird-strikes: DNA barcoding for children at Tromsø University Museum

Tromsø Univeristy Museum has activities for children every Sunday. On Sunday May 10 this activity was on DNA barcoding and bird-strikes! Even though the weather was good outside, many children visited the museum to play detectives.

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The background story is that a bird has struck an air-plane, but all that is left is this feather. Which bird species could it be? With a barcode string of letters from the feather, the children had to search the exhibition for a bird with matching DNA barcode. When found, they could build a barcode of “jelly-men”, each letter corresponding to a certain colour. Exactly 8 of them fit on the stick and made a great treat.

Marie Kristine Føreid, Tromsø museum

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Symposium on Biodiversity and DNA barcoding

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The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre and the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL) have the pleasure of inviting you to a symposium on Biodiversity and DNA barcoding in Trondheim November 11-12, 2015. The goal of this conference is to communicate new knowledge on Norwegian species and show how DNA barcoding contributes to our understanding of species diversity, biology and ecology. We think the symposium will be an attractive venue for researchers, student and managers of biodiversity and are pleased to have distinguished speakers from Canada, UK, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Among the confirmed participants are Paul Hebert, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Natasha de Vere and Tomas Roslin. For more information on the conference, speakers and registration, please visit the symposium website: Biodiversity and DNA barcoding. Welcome!

The organizing committee
Ingrid Salvesen
Ingrid Ertshus Mathisen
Aina Mærk Aspaas
Torbjørn Ekrem