We thank the following persons who contributed specimens to the National Cockroach Project!
- Jennifer Gil Acevedo
- Angel
- Arthur M. Agnello
- Oswin Ambrose
- Jesse Ausubel
- Christoph von Beeren
- David Boone
- Bob Borns
- Butch
- Ian Butler
- Will Butler
- Manuel Vázquez Castiñeira
- Maria Antonia Vázquez Castiñeira
- Erin Cram
- Alan Curry
- Erika Custer
- Wesley Davidson
- Yolanda Davies
- Emily Dennis
- Carla Dove
- Jennifer Einstein
- Orli Ettingin and John Silver
- Dominic Evangelista
- Cornel Faith
- Paul Fallavollita
- Philip Freda
- Peter Fridy
- Andrew Gallina
- Jeanne Garbarino
- Daniel Gareau
- Alex Gasresi
- Susan George
- Trip Gulick and Tom Beckett
- Daniel Halpern-Leistner
- Marcia Halpern and Jay Leistner
- Priscilla Hanisch
- Catherine Hart
- Logan Hukill
- Human Resources Department, The Rockefeller University
- Shanna Jenkinson
- Joe
- Karen Knitig
- Daniel Kronauer
- William Kuhn
- Sofia Lizon à l’Allemand
- Melissa Lee
- Jessica Lui
- Damon Little
- Douglas Main
- Doris Manville
- Christopher Milensky
- Dana Miloslavich
- Isa Miloslavich
- Patricia Miloslavich
- Judy Molnar
- Charlene Nussbaum
- Elizabeth Olmstead and Randall Kau
- Mr. and Mrs. David Prados
- Randall Raymond
- Thomas Reintjes
- David Rentz
- Jeff and Jackie Reynolds
- Ricardo Rezk
- Alison Richards
- Morgan Ringer
- Steven Ringer
- Anthony Santoro
- Jonathan Saragosti
- Meredith Scribner
- Lou Sorkin
- Aaron Steiner
- James Stoeckle
- Mark Stoeckle
- Tom Sullivan
- Susan Summers
- Jeffrey C. Taylor
- DeWaine Tollefsrud
- Pablo Tubaro
- Marnie Walfoort
- Amelia Walsh
- Jessica Ware
- Melvin White
- Megan Wilson
- Laura Winzenread
- Eric J. Wolfe
- Joyce Xia
About the Bar Code of Life 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 managed by Mark Stoeckle at the Program
for the Human Environment (PHE) at The Rockefeller University.
Contact: mark.stoeckle@rockefeller.edu
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.