Dear ABOL community & all interested people, the preliminary program of the this year´s ABOL meeting is now available and can be downloaded here: program-abol-meeting2017 The meeting takes place on 20th of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. We are happy to announce a keynote-lecture of Prof. Paul Hebert (University of Guelph, Canada), the […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, to avoid synchrony with the ÖEG Fachgespräche (October 21st, 2017, BOKU) the ABOL meeting will take place on October 20th, 2017 from 9:00 to ca. 20:00. We will start with talks, a panel discussion and a poster session. In the afternoon two public talks will be followed by […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative. Two public talks will […]
Dear ABOL community, this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project. Please save the date! Further information will be given in time. Best wishes, the ABOL-Team
For all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL! https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/ We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity. Enjoy our page!
With March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership. Project partners are the University of Vienna, the University of […]
Dear ABOL community, it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently! In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg. Both […]
Dear ABOL community,
this year again our ABOL meeting took place at the Schlossmuseum Linz – we would like to thank the people from the Upper Austrian State Museums for hosting! We are very happy, that so many of you joined the meeting. A special thank to all the speakers for the interesting talks concerning this year’s main topic “Applied aspects of DNA barcoding”. The talks provided a comprehensive overview of the power of DNA barcoding and stimulated lively discussions.
We hope, that the meeting was interesting and successful for all participants and provided sufficient space for conversations and networking.
Please find some impressions in our picture gallery (photo credits by F. Gusenleitner, H. Sattmann, M. Sonnleitner)
Best wishes,
your ABOL team
A fascinating recent publication deals with the potential of species delimitation in Lepidoptera via CO1. An international cooperation, with the participation of experts from the Tyrolean State Museums, could show that DNA barcoding is an efficient approach to determine the vast majority of European Lepidoptera. Every determination is eased by reciprocal monophyly between species. In […]
As representatives of a DNA-Barcoding-Initiative in Austria we are often asked for the value of barcoding Austrian individuals in species where DNA-Barcodes from other countries are available. The best answer is given by two papers on moths, recently published by the team around Peter Huemer at the Tiroler Landesmuseum. Some species of leafroller-moths were always […]
Metabarcoding-Symposium 202624. September, 2026 - 10:33Launch of an Austrian eDNA Community The Metabarcoding Symposium, held on 17 and 18 September 2026 at the Natural History Museum Vienna, was not only a platform for professional exchange, but also marked the beginning of an Austrian eDNA community (provisionally: OeDNA). The symposium was organised by the ABOL coordination team together with Bettina Thalinger […]
A decade of ABOL – new paper!24. September, 2026 - 09:36Looking Back on a Decade of ABOL: Coordinating a National Biodiversity Initiative How can a country’s biological diversity be systematically documented – and what does it take to turn a research initiative into a sustainable, long-term network? Since 2014, the Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL) Initiative has been dedicated to systematically documenting Austria’s animal, plant, […]
ABOL-BioBlitzes 2026 – from the river plain to the summit27. July, 2026 - 15:44A look back at a successful ABOL field season 2026! Since 2019, the ABOL coordination team has been actively involved in the various Days of Biodiversity, conducting ABOL BioBlitz surveys. These surveys generate DNA barcodes and familiarize experts with this methodological approach. This year’s Days of Biodiversity were once again very popular. Thanks to the […]