National Organization

• Finnish Barcode of Life (FINBOL)

SSC Representative

• Marko Mutanen
• University of Oulu

SSC Alternate

• Helena Korpelainen
• University of Helsinki

Goals

To make Finland the first nation to DNA barcode its eukaryotic species, including all animals, plants and fungi occurring in Finland.

– To create DNA barcodes for 20,000 Finnish species and 60,000 specimens in four years.
– To establish a dense network of specialists and institutions to achieve this goal.
– To coordinate DNA barcoding efforts in Finland.

- Activities

- Organization

- Funding Plan

- Core Facilities

- Projects and Researchers

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SSC Representative: Amanda Mararuai
SSC Alternate: Scott Miller

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SSC Representative: Thomas Valqui
SSC Alternate: Gisella Orjeda

]]> http://ibol.org/peru/feed/ 0 http://ibol.org/france/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=france http://ibol.org/france/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:01:19 +0000 admin http://ibol.dev.threestonestudios.com/?p=2337 National Node

National Organization

• Bibliotheque du Vivant (BDV)

SSC Representative

• Jean-Yves Rasplus
• INRA – CBGP

SSC Alternate

• Line Le Gall
• Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle

Goals

The Bibliotheque du Vivant (BDV) project brings together 33 research units and about 200 individuals who are all strongly committed to molecular taxonomy.

BDV is funded by the three majors French funding agencies involved in the study of biodiversity: Institut National Agronomique, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, and Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique. The main goal of this project is to ensure privileged access to the national sequencing centre (Genoscope, Evry).

Other goals:
- Multigenic barcoding.
- Contributing to the international effort at assembling the Tree of Life.
- Strenghtening Taxinomic expertise.
- Species delimitation and exploration of species diversity.
- Developing Identification toolkits

Organization

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Projects and Researchers

National Organization

• iBOL-China

SSC Representative

• Ya-Ping Zhang
• Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

SSC Alternate

• Da-Wei Huang
• Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Goals

- To establish large and effective sequencing facilities that will promote DNA barcoding in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
- To build a well-populated DNA barcode reference library with specimens, images and sequences from various taxonomic groups and ecological assemblages especially those from East Asia and Southeast Asia.
- To develop and maintain the mirror system of BOLD.
- To initiate and organize national and international DNA barcoding activities.
- To lead DNA barcoding knowledge and technology transfer across nodes.

Activities

Organization

Funding Plan

Core Facilities

Projects and Researchers

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SSC Representative: Eldredge Bermingham
SSC Alternate: Oris Sanjur

]]> http://ibol.org/panama/feed/ 0 http://ibol.org/madagascar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=madagascar http://ibol.org/madagascar/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:18:49 +0000 admin http://ibol.dev.threestonestudios.com/?p=975 National Node

SSC Representative

• Brian Fisher
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

SSC Alternate

• Rajemison Balsama
• Madagascar Biodiversity Center, Antanarivo

Goals

Coordinate, facilitate, and encourage ongoing research project in Madagascar to incorporate barcoding. Train local scientists in barcoding methods.

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Organization

Funding Plan

Core Facilities

Projects and Researchers

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National Organization

• Kenya Barcode of Life (KenBOL)

SSC Representative

• Daniel Masiga
• International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)

SSC Alternate

• Helida Oyieke
• National Musuems of Kenya (NMK)

Vision

A community of scientific enterprise applying DNA barcoding for research and management of biodiversity.

Mission

To expand the application of DNA Barcoding to the widest taxonomic range of Kenya’s biodiversity, and to contribute to the overall iBOL research program.

Goals

• Establish the national iBOL node in Kenya.
• Contribute to the iBOL project by providing specimens and metadata for Kenyan species of national socioeconomic and environmental importance.
• Contribute to conservation by facilitating species identification.
• Recruit partners and develop capacity in DNA barcoding (museums, research and academic institutions).

Activities

Organization

Funding Plan

Core Facilities

Projects and Researchers

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SSC Representative

• Daniel Janzen
• Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica

SSC Alternate

• Carlos Hernández
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

Vision

1. Provide the world with one example of a thoroughly barcoded tritrophic lineage of one large complex conserved tropical wildland: ‘Lepidoptera-food plants-parasitoids’ of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, 2.5% of the world’s biodiversity in one place.
2. Barcode the national biodiversity of Costa Rica, 4% of the world’s biodiversity, as a major action in making that biodiversity available to everyone anywhere at any time for non-damaging use and biodiversity development, for the conservation of that biodiversity and to make that biodiversity a sustainable integral part of the national socioeconomic fabric into perpetuity.
3. Conduct the two actions described above in a transparent and exemplary manner for the world as case histories and proof-of-principle, and as direct biodiversity development actions for and by the country of Costa Rica.

Mission

1. Thoroughly barcode all the species of Lepidoptera, their food plants, and their parasitoids (Diptera, Hymenoptera) obtained by the ongoing 33-year old intense biodiversity inventory of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica; 30,000 samples/year of 2,000+ species/year with funds now (2011) available.
2. Barcode at least 10,000 samples of 1,000+ species, as funding allows, of the massive national inventory biodiversity collections (many millions of specimens) housed in INBio since 1989; all specimens and human resources are in place (or can be obtained in short order), this has been funded by IDRC, with ongoing support from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation grant to ACG/GDFCF.
3. Conduct the two actions described above in a transparent and exemplary manner for the world as case histories and proof-of-principle, as well as for the direct biodiversity development benefit of Costa Rica and its national conservation process.

Goals

1. For the ACG tritrophic inventory, provide 30,000 samples to BIO for barcoding per year, all properly databased, and then continue the taxonomic curation of these samples in consort with the barcoding results (JRS grant), while producing published and database analyses, and while serving as proof-of-principle for INBio, CBOL, iBIOL and BIO, in return for iBOL covering the barcoding costs once the samples are prepared for sending.
2. For the INBio national inventory collections, provide 10,000 INBio collection samples to BIO for barcoding per year as supported by the current IDRC funding, all properly databased, and then continue the taxonomic curation of these samples in consort with the barcoding results, while producing published and database analyses and serving as proof-of-principle for CBOL, iBOL and BIO, in return for iBOL covering the barcoding costs once the samples are prepared for sending. AND, treating this as a module, produce more such modules per year as equal amounts of funding are made available by iBOL.
3. Conduct the two actions described above in a transparent and exemplary manner for the world as case histories and proof-of-principle, as well as for the direct biodiversity development benefit of Costa Rica and its national conservation process.

Activities

Organization

Funding Plan

Core Facilities

Projects and Researchers

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SSC Representative: Mauricio Linares
SSC Alternate: Silvia Restrepo
Coordinator: Mailyn González – ma.gonzalez224@uniandes.edu.co

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