{"id":894,"date":"2015-11-18T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T08:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/?p=894"},"modified":"2015-11-18T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T08:44:58","slug":"report-from-the-symposium-on-biodiversity-and-dna-barcoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/18\/report-from-the-symposium-on-biodiversity-and-dna-barcoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from the Symposium on Biodiversity and DNA Barcoding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The symposium\u00a0Biodiversity and DNA Barcoding<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was held at the\u00a0Scandic Nidelven hotel 11-12 November 2015. Nearly\u00a0100 participants from Norway, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic and UK\u00a0had found their way to Trondheim, making this meeting larger than originally expected. The conference turned out to be a good meeting place for nature managers, barcoders, participants in the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative and others interested in biodiversity and DNA barcoding.<\/p>\n

As the program<\/a>\u00a0can\u00a0confirm, there was a great diversity in\u00a0the talks, both on\u00a0topics and organism groups. We were guided through taxonomic challenges in fungi, marine invertebrates and insects, many of which has been detected with the aid of DNA barcodes. We were invited on journeys into the deep oceans and into the “moss forest”, and introduced to the opportunities\u00a0molecular methods give\u00a0when studying food webs, pollination and microscopic organisms. \u00a0We also learned about the The Planetary Biodiversity Mission<\/em>, news from\u00a0BOLD4<\/em> and about\u00a0LifeScanner<\/a><\/em>, a\u00a0citizen-science initiative where identification of species through DNA barcoding is made available to everyone.<\/p>\n

\"speakers<\/a>Speakers at the symposium. From left: Anders Hob\u00e6k, Christiane Todt, Marie Davey, Hans Tore Rapp, Frode \u00d8degaard, Inger Greve Alsos, Natasha de Vere, Endre Willassen, Kristian Hassel, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Elisabeth Stur, Christer Ers\u00e9us, Paul Hebert, Tomas Roslin.\u00a0Tor Erik Brandrud and Gunn Paulsen were unavailable when the photo was taken. Photo \u00c5ge Hojem, NTNU University Museum, CC-BY.<\/em><\/p>\n

Both organizers and participants seemed very pleased with the conference. Most things went as planned, the food was good, and even if we had music from the neighbouring room accompanying the last presentations on day two, the participants seemed pleased when leaving the venue. Thank you all for coming! More photos are available on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"participants-biodiv&DNAbarcoding-foto-hojem\"<\/a>Participants at the symposium Biodiversity and DNA barcoding 2015. Photo \u00c5ge Hojem, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet, CC-BY.<\/em><\/p>\n

Torbj\u00f8rn Ekrem, NTNU University Museum<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The symposium\u00a0Biodiversity and DNA Barcoding\u00a0was held at the\u00a0Scandic Nidelven hotel 11-12 November 2015. Nearly\u00a0100 participants from Norway, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic and UK\u00a0had found their way to Trondheim, making this meeting larger than originally expected. The conference turned out to be a good meeting place for nature managers, barcoders, participants in the Norwegian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norbol.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}