Presentations

A reference library of plant DNA barcodes to identify pollen loads in cultivated areas of East-Central Tanzania.

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

Recovering DNA barcodes from Whole Genome Sequencing data. A test case with the « true » fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

Many gaps to fill: assessing coverage of DNA barcode reference libraries for eukaryotic life in France and its Oversea territories.

Presenter: Lucas Sire
Affiliation: Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB)

Exploring Artificial Neural Networks for curation of DNA barcode reference libraries: a pilot study with Eastern Atlantic fishes.

Presenter: Filipe O. Costa
Affiliation: Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) / ARNET-Aquatic Research Network / Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho

A Plan towards an eDNA reference library and data repository for Aquatic Organisms – eDNAqua-Plan.

Presenter: eDNAqua-Plan Consortium
Affiliation: eDNAqua-Plan

Mitogenomic reference data for bony fishes from the eastern Amazon.

Presenter: Luiz Oliveira
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Accuracy and reliability of the BOLD and GenBank databases for COI sequences identification of Central American Pacific Echinoderms.

Presenter: Leonardo Chacón-Monge
Affiliation: Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad de Costa Rica /  Museo de Zoología, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical, Universidad de Costa Rica / Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica

Environmental DNA metabarcoding of herbivore megafauna dung for wildlife monitoring and management.

Presenter: Philip Francis Thomsen
Affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Aarhus

Shedding light on the dark diversity – Assessing the utility of mass DNA barcoding for Phorid fly species discovery.

Presenter: Jiri Vihavainen
Affiliation: University of Eastern Finland

Evaluation of the predator-blocking COI primers for insectivore dietary analysis using MinION Oxford Nanopore sequencing; a case study with frogs (order Anura) from Ecuador.

Presenter: Maria Kuzmina
Affiliation: Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph

Using next generation sequencing to uncover real fungal diversity at the contaminated site of abandoned antimony mine in Dubrava, Slovakia.

Presenter: Ivona Kautmanova
Affiliation: Slovak National Museum-Natural History Museum

Comparative phylogeography and population genetics of earthworms in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana.

Presenter: Arnaud Goulpeau
Affiliation: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

Assessing estuarine environmental quality through Foraminifera DNA Metabarcoding.

Presenter: Rayssa de Almeida Viana
Affiliation: Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo

Aphid infestation on invasive Impatiens L. species in Europe: Implications for plant-insect interactions and invasion ecology.

Presenter: Tomasz Rewicz
Affiliation: Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology, University of Lodz

Metagenomic-driven investigation of the Onychophora gut microbiome.

Presenter: Guilherme Costa Baiao
Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

BopCo: The Belgian barcoding facility for organisms and tissues of policy concern.

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

DNA barcoding of phytopathogens causing fungal diseases on tomatoes in Bulgaria.

Presenter: Georgi Bonchev
Affiliation: Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, BAS

Expanding the swimmer’s itch pool: a first record of Trichobilharzia regenti in Belgium.

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

Discovering the fish fauna of a lagoon from the southeast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, using DNA barcodes.

Presenter: Martha Valdez-Moreno
Affiliation: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal

Biodiversity of the freshwater crabs of Benin: a genetic approach.

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

Monthly monitoring of fish diversity in a temperate Atlantic estuary through ichthyoplankton morphology combined with multi-marker bulk metabarcoding and seawater eDNA.

Presenter: Filipe O. Costa
Affiliation: Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) / ARNET-Aquatic Research Network / Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho

Molecular data indicate cryptic species in rays of the genus Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829.

Presenter: João Bráullio Luna Sales
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Characterizing fish-associated parasites within the major Atlantic migration route within the context of the VerticalFish project.

Presenter: Filipe O. Costa

Affiliation: Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) / ARNET-Aquatic Research Network / Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho

Comprehensive DNA barcoding of macroinvertebrates in the ancient Lake Ohrid basin.

Presenter: Tomasz Mamos
Affiliation: Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz

Molecular diversity and DNA barcode library of epikarst-dwelling invertebrates in the Western Carpathians: first insight.

Presenter: Michal Grabowski
Affiliation: Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology, University of Lodz

Identification of a found crocodile in Hong Kong SAR by DNA barcoding and microsatellite fingerprinting.

Presenter: Johnson Jor-Shing Chan
Affiliation: Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin R&D Centre for Chinese Medicine and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Putting gossip to rest: DNA barcoding upholds South American Tanypodinae (Diptera, Chironomidae) expected megadiversity.

Presenter: Ricardo Morelli
Affiliation: University of São Paulo. R. Cidade Universitária

Environmental DNA reveals temporal variation in mesophotic reefs of the Humboldt upwelling ecosystems of central Chile: Toward a baseline for biodiversity monitoring of unexplored marine habitats.

Presenter: Javiera Sánchez
Affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

DNA barcoding of Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in Tamaulipas state, northeast México.

Presenter: Miguel Angel Reyes Lopez
Affiliation: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica

Using eDNA to estimate fisheries resources in South American markets: Endangered species for sale.

Presenter: Bianca Paiva
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Evaluating the diet diversity of the Whitemouth Croaker: A comparison between traditional methods and DNA metabarcoding.

Presenter: Uswa Sajid
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Zooplankton diversity of the Blue Amazon evaluated by metabarcoding analysis of bulk samples.

Presenter: Amanda Saraiva da Conceição
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Challenges for biomonitoring 2.0 of marine habitat-forming species in Brazil.

Presenter: Rodrigo Domingues
Affiliation: Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo

Tracking multi-domain reef biodiversity with eDNA in Moorea Island- French Polynesia.

Presenter: Denise Silva
Affiliation: Oregon State University

Confirmation of the Neotropical origin of the pantropical tree genus Parkia (Leguminosae) and evidence of additional taxa in Africa: Insights from dated plastid and ribosomal DNA phylogenies.

Presenter: Oscar Doré Ahossou
Affiliation: Laboratory of Applied Ecology (Benin) / Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology (Belgium)

Case study of non-lethal sampling for plant-pollinator networks via barcoding and metabarcoding on bumble bees in Germany.

Presenter: Alexander Edwards
Affiliation: University of Kassel

Preliminary analysis of the matK and rbcL genes of Moringa (Moringa oleifera).

Presenter: Fátima Yedith Camacho-Sánchez
Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas-UAMRA

Beyond DNA barcoding: Advancing forensic investigations with DNA metabarcoding technology.

Presenter: Sungmin Kim
Affiliation: Forensic Genetics & Chemistry Division, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office

ELIXIR’s biodiversity, food security, and pathogens priority area.

Presenter: Physilia Chua
Affiliation: ELIXIR

Scaling up DNA metabarcoding surveys: using the MetaWorks pipeline for biological assessment in a large watershed from Eastern Ontario, Canada

Presenter: Bráulio Silva
Affiliation: Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - University of Guelph

Metabarcoding of spider webs in monitoring forest recovery in the Amazon.

Presenter: Marcia Anjos
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

eDNA metabarcoding identifies the diet of the freshwater stingray (Potamotrygon motoro) (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae) in Maranhão, Brazil.

Presenter: Kerly Pereira
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Using DNA barcodes to better understand the evolutionary history of a Neotropical passerine with a disjunct distribution in the Andean and Atlantic forests (Thamnophilus ruficapillus).

Presenter: Belen Bukowski
Affiliation: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales

Preliminary insights on airborne eDNA for detecting wildlife biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon.

Presenter: Adriana Iglesias-Vásquez
Affiliation: Asociación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad Amazónica - Dallas World Aquarium (ACOBIA-DWAZOO)

Identifying EU-listed invasive species by DNA-barcoding using currently available sequence data.

Presenter: Nathalie Smitz
Affiliation: Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Arctic BIOSCAN project: a platform for DNA-based biodiversity monitoring in the Canadian Arctic.

Presenter: Ian Hogg
Affiliation: Polar Knowledge Canada

Testing the placement accuracy of DNA barcode sequences on fish backbone trees: implications of fish backbone tree completeness and species sampling strategy.

Presenter: M. A. Thanuja Fernando
Affiliation: University of Guelph