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Connection #3: What brings us together?

March 31, 2025

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Connection #2: Meet iBOL Europe and ERGA
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 (BGE), are joining forces for “Connections,” a series of...
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Delimiting Species – Prospects and Challenges for DNA Barcoding
The acceptance of species delimitation and description based on barcode sequence clustering thresholds is growing, yet not without controversy. In a recent paper, Brent Emerson (Spanish National Research Council/CSIC) focuses on the topic while addressing prospects and challenges for DNA...
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Connection #1: On the origin of ‘Biodiversity Genomics’
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 (BGE), are joining forces for "Connections," a series of...
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Highlights of January Community Meeting
The first Community Meeting of the year took place on 27 January 2025. This time, the meeting was chaired by Michał Grabowski (University of Łódź). Kasia Fantoni (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL) shared updates about iBOL Europe's Working Groups and the...
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PolBOL hosts Workshop on Biodiversity Genomics for the Polish National Parks
On 13 and 14 November 2024, a team from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology at the University of Łodz (UniŁodz), in cooperation with the Tatra National Park (TNP), hosted the workshop: “Biodiversity Genomics: Prospects for National Parks in...
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Highlights of November Community Meeting
On 25 November, we had the latest iBOL Europe Community Meeting, chaired by Torbjørn Ekrem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). The meeting kicked off with Alexandros Triantafyllidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), who shared the experience of setting up...
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