Event: Illumina Seminar
Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing in Microbiology
An Illumina seminar organized in collaboration with Genomics Core-KU Leuven.
Friday, March 18, 2016
News items
DNA Barcoding to reduce illegal songbird consumption and trade
On the newspage of scientific journal Nature an article by Shaoni Bhattacharya explains how DNA barcoding can combat a species threatening practice:
"Songbirds are a culinary delicacy in Cyprus — but catching and eating them is illegal. Even so, the practice is on the rise and could be threatening rare species."
Read the full article here.
Event: Integrative taxonomy and taxonomic expertise
Integrative taxonomy and taxonomic expertise : DNA barcodes in the genomic era
This is an upcoming week long course focused on DNA-Barcoding. The event is organised with the help of the Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
BopCo will be present.
For more information visit click here.
Alien macro-invertebrates in Flanders, Belgium
An inventory was made of the alien macroinvertebrates occurring in Flanders. To this end large collections of biological samples were investigated and supplemented with own sampling campaigns. Mainly fresh and brackish surface waters were investigated. Three new macroinvertebrate species for Flanders were discovered.
Making the EU legislation on iAS a conservation success
The European Union's (EU) new legislation concerning Invasive Alien Species (IAS) is a ground-breaking and commendable attempt to set a common standard for combating IAS across political jurisdictions at a multinational scale. However ...
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