News 2023

June 23 2023 Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), Bethlehem University joins GGBN

We are pleased to announce the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), Bethlehem University has joined GGBN. The biodiversity biobank collection includes over 200 DNA and 300 tissue samples representing plants, terrestrial invertebrates, and vertebrates. In addition to tissues and DNAs, the collection also includes environmental samples.

June 22 2023 GGBN 2023 Conference: Early Registration Closes June 30

Early registration and abstract submission for the GGBN 2023 Conference is now open through June 30th, don't miss your chance at the discount rates! General registration will be open from July 1-August 31.

This year's conference is intended to communicate ideas, new tools, expertise on biodiversity and environmental biobanking, and to encourage the community to make genomic collections public and broadly available for research while respecting the spirit of the Nagoya Protocol.

Registration, conference agenda, hotel, travel, and abstract submissions are now available on the conference website. Don't miss your chance to register for this in-person conference as rates are scheduled to increase.

We look forward to seeing you in Mexico this October 17-20.

June 14 2023 New Collections Update

The GGBN platform has recently added 1323 records of tissue and DNA from Universidad Nacional de Colombia's GERPH collection. These samples are associated with the project "Discovering vertebrate host and their blood parasites in Colombia's wildlife"

May 1 2023 GGBN 2023 Conference Registration and Abstract Submission Now Open

This year's conference is intended to communicate ideas, new tools, expertise on biodiversity and environmental biobanking, and to encourage the community to make genomic collections public and broadly available for research while respecting the spirit of the Nagoya Protocol.

Registration, conference agenda, hotel, travel, and abstract submissions are now available on the conference website. Don't miss your chance to register for this in-person conference as rates are scheduled to increase.

• registration and abstract submission

April 5 2023 GGBN 2023 Conference Registration and Abstract Submission Open May 1

GGBN 2023 Conference registration and abstract submission will open Monday, May 1st.

• preliminary conference agenda
• registration and abstract submission starting May 1st

January 27 2023 Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro joins GGBN

We are happy to announce that the Museu Nacional (MNRJ) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Brazil has joined GGBN. Collections include 850 DNA and 627 tissue samples representing marine invertebrates. Samples are managed with Specify. MNRJ is a 2021 GGBN Awards program awardee.

18 January 2023 AGIR at the Universite D'Abomy-Calavi joins GGBN

We are happy to announce that the Integrated Resource Management Association(AGIR) at the Universite D'Abomey-Calavi in the Republic of Benin has joined GGBN, which includes the Herbier National du Benin and the Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences. Collections include silica and environmental samples representing 186 plant species.