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created on: 31.01.2014 | by: Matthias Geiger

In 31 Jan 2014 a short GBOL article about “Barcode-Technik findet Pferdefleisch in Lasagne” (“The barcode technique finds horsemeat in lasagne”) was published in VDI Nachrichten (issue no 5).

http://www.vdi-nachrichten.com/Technik-Wirtschaft/Barcode-Technik-findet-Pferdefleisch-in-Lasagne

created on: 27.01.2014 | by: Matthias Geiger

On 24/25 Jan 2014 a two-day GBOL1 Workshop was co-hosted by ZFMK custodians and external taxon experts at the Museum Koenig. Beside several talks on the subject of “interesting aspects and applications of DNA barcoding”, there were a small workshop giving a practical introduction in the sequence analysis, a guided tour looking behind the scenes of the barcode pipeline and discussion groups about the barcode datasets already available (details of the programme: PDF). A total of 32 external taxon experts with different taxonomic background from all over Germany and 18 colleages of the ZFMK took part in the GBOL1 Workshop.

Participants of the GBOL1 Workshop at the Museum Koenig

Participants of the workshop “Practical introduction in the barcode sequence analysis”

created on: 06.01.2014 | by: Matthias Geiger

In December 2013 a short GBOL article about the subproject Subterranean Fauna was published in the Mittelungen des Verbandes der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. (News of the German Speleological Federation) (PDF).

created on: 12.08.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

On 12 Aug 2013 this following short GBOL report “Nacktscanner für Ameisen: Abertausende unbekannte Tiere und Pflanzen verstauben in den Schubladen der Museen, weil niemand Zeit hat, sie zu bestimmen. Jetzt soll High-Tech helfen” (“Body scanner for ants: thousands and thousands of unknown animals and plants gather dust in the drawers of museums because nobody has time to determine them. Now high-tech shall help”) was published in “Zeit Online”:

http://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2013-08/arten-scannen-taxonomie/komplettansicht (PDF)

created on: 06.08.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

On Tuesday 6 Aug 2013 a GBOL report about the associated project “Subterranean Fauna” (www.bolgermany.de/team/projekte#SubterrFauna) was broadcasted by WDR Lokalzeit Bonn.

Link to media library (available online up to 12 Aug 2013, from Minute 23.28):
http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/lokalzeit/lokalzeit-aus-bonn/videohoehlenexpedition100_size-L.html?autostart=true#banner

created on: 01.07.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

Announcement of the 19th Diversity Workbench Workshop on the subject of “Data management in the context of monitoring and barcoding projects”. This workshop is helt by the IT-centre (Team: Dr. D. Triebel, Dr. M. Weiss, D. Neubacher, W. Reichert, T. Weibulat, M. Knick, A. Link) of the Staatlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB) in Munich – in cooperation with the German Barcode of Life (GBOL).

Detailed information on the event:
http://www.snsb.info/SNSBInfoOpenWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DivWorkbenchWorkshop_19

created on: 25.06.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

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created on: 19.06.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

On 19 Jun 2013 a short GBOL report “Artenvielfalt – Entdeckungen im Museumskeller“ (“Biodiversity – discoveries in the basement of the museum”) was published by “Stuttgarter Zeitung” :

www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.artenvielfalt-entdeckungen-im-museumskeller.8266366b-61da-4229-8ce2-3059e241680e.html (PDF)

created on: 17.06.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

17 Jun 2013 a short GBOL report “Warum die Inventur der Tierarten so schwierig ist“ (“Why is the inventory of animal species that difficult?“) was published in science section of “Die Welt”

www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article117173894/Warum-die-Inventur-der-Tierarten-so-schwierig-ist.html (PDF)

created on: 24.05.2013 | by: Matthias Geiger

On 24 May 2013 a short GBOL report “REGISTRIERUNG DER ARTENVIELFALT – Eine Sisyphusarbeit für Biologen“ (“Registration of biodiversity – a Sisyphean task for biologist“) was published in “TAZ”: http://www.taz.de/Registrierung-der-Artenvielfalt-/!116780/ (PDF)