Nine labs equipped for genetic testing Efforts to promote DNA barcoding as a regulatory protocol have gained considerable traction following two recent developments. First, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a barcode-based testing program to clamp down on seafood fraud. Then a Canadian seafood importer began barcode testing imports from China to guard [...]
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iBOL partner makes fruit fly discovery
Barcodes identify pest in southern Germany German researchers working with the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) have produced the first genetic evidence that an invasive and highly destructive fruit fly is now present in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg. Researchers from the Bavarian State Collection in Munich used DNA barcoding to identify the spotted-wing [...]
Pakistan to form barcode focal point
Symposium sees engagement as primary goal Members of Pakistan’s DNA barcoding community have agreed to create a national focal point with the goal of engaging the country’s universities and researchers in DNA barcoding. This was one of the important outcomes of a one-day symposium on DNA barcoding, attended by some 200 scientists, students, conservationists, community [...]
iBOL advisor wins Russian ‘megagrant’
O’Brien leaving NCI after 25 years The chair of iBOL’s Science Advisory Board, Stephen O’Brien, has left the National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Genomic Diversity after 25 years to help jump-start a genome bioinformatics centre at St. Petersburg University in Russia. O’Brien has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant from the Russian Ministry [...]
FinBOL gets off to a fast start
Expanding its network and funding Launched less than a year ago, Finland’s iBOL Node, the Finnish Barcode of Life initiative (FinBOL), has generated impressive momentum with a rapidly expanding network and funding success. The FinBOL network now includes more than 130 experts and three major university museums – the Zoological Museum at University of Oulu, [...]
ECBOL 3 congress set for Brussels
Theme: Barcoding organisms of policy concern The third congress of the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL) – themed “Barcoding of organisms of policy concern” – will be held in Brussels from September 17-21. ECBOL 3, co-sponsored by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and [...]
Dan Janzen honoured with BBVA Foundation award
“Pioneer of the science of restoration ecology” Daniel Janzen, the eminent tropical ecologist and conservationist who became one of the earliest adopters and staunchest advocates of DNA barcoding and the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL), has received the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Ecology and Conservation Biology. Click image to enlarge [...]
Barcoding Life report documents a year of progress
Applications and discoveries are highlighted The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) are pleased to announce the release of Barcoding Life – Highlights 2011.
Major expansion planned for German node
High throughput facility at Bonn museum A high throughput DNA barcoding facility will be established in the molecular laboratory of Bonn’s Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum as part of a major expansion of barcoding activities by iBOL’s German node. A €5 million grant over 3.5 years from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), [...]
Barcodes show canned sardines are kosher
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