ABOL Meeting 2017 – takeoff into the future

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Our this year´s annual meeting ABOL4 took place on October 20th, 2017 under a number of lucky stars! Firstly, good news from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and Economy came just in time: The coordination of ABOL is going to be funded for the next three years!… Read more

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ABOL Database Workshop

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The ABOL coordination team offers workshops to learn how to use the ABOL database. The workshops are designed for beginners, thus previous knowledge about the database software specify or databases in general is not required.

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The first ABOL database workshop took place on the 6th of November.… Read more

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ABOL meeting – final agenda

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Dear ABOL friends and colleagues interested in biodiversity,

the ABOL meeting will take place in two weeks! With pleasure we announce the final program.

Some changes concerning the speakers had to be made. Unfortunately, Paul Hebert had to cancel his attendance. But,  we are happy to welcome Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ.… Read more

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ABOL meeting 2017 – preliminary agenda

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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.… Read more

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ABOL meeting – held on 20th of October 2017 only

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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.… Read more

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ABOL meeting 2017 – reminder

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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.… Read more

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One day meeting in Edinburgh (UK) on “DNA Sequencing Natural History Specimens Using New Sequencing Platforms and Protocols”

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Dear all

Pete Hollingworth of the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh is organizing a Meeting on “Sequencing Natural History specimens using NGS”.

It will take place on Tuesday 11th July 2017 with many reknown speakers from various DNA-Barcoding initiatives.

The Meeting is free – registrition is open till 05th of July.… Read more

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ABOL meeting 2017 – Save the date!

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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.… Read more

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ABOL goes facebook

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!… Read more

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HRSM project start on March 1st 2017

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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.… Read more

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