Addressing biodiversity loss

iBOL Europe

DNA barcoding for species identification and biomonitoring

  • A European framework

iBOL Europe is a European node of the International Barcode of Life consortium. A regional nexus for the DNA barcoding community.

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    Community Meeting March 2026

    The next community meeting will take place on 30 March at 15:30 CEST. We will start the meeting with Christian de Guttry (Swiss Bioinformatics Institute), who will talk to us about BioDiv-FC, a project addressing the lack of biodiversity-specific requirements of many...

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    Connections Booklet: Discovering Biodiversity Genomics

    What is biodiversity? And genomics? And how are they related to each other in ways that help species monitoring and conservation? Throughout 2025, the “ERGA – iBOL Europe Connections” blog post series addressed these and many other questions about biodiversity...

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    Workshop: Developing a European eDNA Society

    On 5-6 February 2026, a workshop gathering representatives from iBOL Europe and the nascent European eDNA Society – eDNAEurope – took place at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (NL). eDNAEurope is a nascent initiative exploring the feasibility of establishing a...

  • What is DNA barcoding?

DNA barcoding uses short segments of DNA to identify species. A scalable solution to provide biomonitoring data to address biodiversity loss.

  • Our vision

To support the DNA barcoding communities of European nations, to conduct impactful DNA-based biomonitoring, to sustain and improve planetary biodiversity.

Paul Herbert

“European researchers have played a central role in the iBOL consortium since its launch in 2010. iBOL Europe will amplify these impacts by coordinating a scientific community with the capacity to reverse the loss of biodiversity. It’s a model for the rest of our world.”

Paul Hebert

Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity, University of Guelph
Scientific Director and Board Chair, iBOL

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  • Who is doing what?

Explore the European DNA barcoding landscape from new initiatives through to established iBOL nodes.

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