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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...
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Community Meeting January 2026
The first community meeting of the year happened on 26 January. For a start, we received some updates from the Working Group leads. Then, Pablo Orozco (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ) walked us through the newly entered-into-force Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (BBNJ). While the...
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Strengthening Networks and Partnerships: The Second BGE Workshop in Thessaloniki
Α workshop was held on 5 December 2025 at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The event brought together scientists, policymakers, and representatives from public authorities to discuss how DNA-based methods can enhance biodiversity monitoring and environmental management...
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Genomic Connection #7 – Bringing data to life: Biodiversity genomics applications
In the seventh – and last! – episode of Genomic Connections, Kasia and Christian talk with Brent Emerson and José Melo-Ferreira about the many applications of genomic data and how their work brings genomic data into action to solve real-world...
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Connections #9: How Biodiversity Genomics drives conservation impact
The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) and the European node of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL Europe), two international communities of scientists brought together under the Biodiversity Genomics Europe Project, are joining forces for “Connections,” a series of blog...
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