July community meeting highlights

On July 29th, we held the last edition of our bi-monthly community meetings. We heard from Simon Creer (Bangor University, United Kingdom) about the UK DNA Working Group; Will Goodall-Copestake (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, United Kingdom) about the Scottish DNA hub; Sten Anslan (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) about how to navigate various metabarcoding pipelines; and Joanne Littlefair (University College London, United Kingdom) an Introduction to airborne environmental DNA for biodiversity analysis.

Here we bring you highlights from the meeting and further interesting information:

• • Read more about the Defra DNA Centre of Excellence
  • Find here the publication with an overview of the bioinformatics software for metabarcoding data analyses. Among others, Sten Anslan also introduced the handy bioinformatics package with the Graphical User Interface, where he is a part of the development team pipecraft2-manual.rtfd.io
  • Read further on the airborne eDNA research from Joanne Littlefair
  • Don’t forget to register to the iBOL2024 conference: https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/ibol/en/ibol2024
  • The registration for the 2025 AquaEcOmics Symposium is now open: https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/
  • Join the Genome Applications Symposium organised by our sister network ERGA: https://www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genome-applications-symposium
  • Publications recommended by our members:
    • First DNA Barcoding Survey in Bulgaria Unveiled Huge Diversity of Yeasts in Insects
    • Rapid eDNA survey reveals a unique biodiversity hotspot: The Corubal River, West Africa

Would you like to present your work or suggest a topic for the iBOL Europe bi-monthly community meetings? Let us know by email: info@iboleurope.org

We are looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting on September 30th.