We post “Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds” recently published in Molecular Ecology Notes. PHE’s Mark Stoeckle co-authored the paper along with the now almost-classic 2004 paper “Identification…
“It is impossible to describe biological diversity with traditional approaches. Molecular methods are the way forward–especially, perhaps in the form of DNA barcodes” observed Mark Blaxter in a 2003 Nature…
We post Jesse’s “On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of American Foresters, it was not delivered…
The Carnegie Capital Science Evening 18 October 2012 was devoted to the Census of Marine Life. Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Every Fish in the Sea: Findings of the 1st Census of…
…local African markets. Just two years ago, in Syst Biol 55: 844, 2006 some taxonomists worried whether DNA barcoding would ever be useful: “The truth is that DNA barcoding will…
In May 2001 IIASA sponsored a meeting in Helsinki about the Institute for its Nordic members. Jesse spoke about why IIASA has mattered in general and in particular its role…
The second version (more features, fewer bugs) of the university simulator, Virtual U., debuted 1 February at a workshop at the U. of Pennsylvania for about two dozen schools using…
I will be away from Blog until mid-August….
Mark is interviewed by DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on how barcoding went from an idea in 2003 to more than 1 million barcoded specimens in 2011. T…
On Tuesday 6 November Jesse Ausubel delivered the Enrico Fermi Colloquium on “Macroscopes for Science” at the University of Florence, Italy, hosted by laser expert Roberto Bini. The hour-long audio…