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U Adelaide, CBOL to host IBOL 4 (abstracts by 15 may!)

From the conference website: www.dnabarcodes2011.org:

The Consortium for the Barcode of Life and the University of Adelaide invite you to join us in Adelaide, Australia from 28 November – 3 December 2011 for the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference. Barcoding has seen extraordinary growth since the Mexico City Conference in November 2009 so join participants from around the world for the biggest barcoding event ever!

The organizers have developed this website to provide potential participants, co-sponsors, and other stakeholders with information about the conference. The conference organizers are also eager to have your feedback as we plan the conference so please share your ideas through Connect, the DNA Barcoding network. You can do this by using the links found throughout this website.

Important Dates

Preliminary agenda available: 1 April
Online abstract submission system opens: 1 April
Sponsorship opportunities open: 1 April
Travel bursary applications open: 15 April
Online registration and hotel reservation site opens: 1 May
Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 15 May
Deadline travel bursary applications: 19 May
Agenda with speakers available: 1 August

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About this site

This web site is an outgrowth of the Taxonomy, DNA, and Barcode of Life meeting held at Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, September 9-12, 2003. It is designed and managed by Mark Stoeckle, Perrin Meyer, and Jason Yung at the Program for the Human Environment (PHE) at The Rockefeller University.

About the Program for the Human Environment

The involvement of the Program for the Human Environment in DNA barcoding dates to Jesse Ausubel's attendance in February 2002 at a conference in Nova Scotia organized by the Canadian Center for Marine Biodiversity. At the conference, Paul Hebert presented for the first time his concept of large-scale DNA barcoding for species identification. Impressed by the potential for this technology to address difficult challenges in the Census of Marine Life, Jesse agreed with Paul on encouraging a conference to explore the contribution taxonomy and DNA could make to the Census as well as other large-scale terrestrial efforts. In his capacity as a Program Director of the Sloan Foundation, Jesse turned to the Banbury Conference Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, whose leader Jan Witkowski prepared a strong proposal to explore both the scientific reliability of barcoding and the processes that might bring it to broad application. Concurrently, PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle began to work with the Hebert lab on analytic studies of barcoding in birds. Our involvement in barcoding now takes 3 forms: assisting the organizational development of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and the Barcode of Life Initiative; contributing to the scientific development of the field, especially by studies in birds, and contributing to public understanding of the science and technology of barcoding and its applications through improved visualization techniques and preparation of brochures and other broadly accessible means, including this website. While the Sloan Foundation continues to support CBOL through a grant to the Smithsonian Institution, it does not provide financial support for barcoding research itself or support to the PHE for its research in this field.

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