Program
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Day 1 – 22.5.2018 @ Natural History Museum
| 08:15 - 11:00
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Arrival, registration
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| 08:30 - 10:30
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GGBN Executive Committee Meeting
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| 11:00 - 11:10
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Welcome words by Ole Seberg, Chair of GGBN
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| 11:10 - 11:40
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Opening lecture by Sandy Knapp (NHM London) - "The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not seen the world";
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| 11:40 - 12:10
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Keynote by Mike Bruford (The Frozen Ark) - Population genomics in conservation and the emerging role of ex situ collections and biobanks.
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| 12:10 - 13:00
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Lunch break
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| 12:30 - 13:30
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GGBN Executive Committee Meeting, cont.
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| 13:30 - 16:00
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Optional social events or free afternoon
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Option 1: Guided tour Zoo Schönbrunn
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Option 2: Guided tour through Vienna's Natural History Museum
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Option 3: Guided city tour "Vienna for Beginners"
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| 13:00 - 19:00
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Nachmittag der Artenvielfalt – Wie steht es um Österreichs Biodiversität? Session in German, free entry. More information here.
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Day 2 – 23.5.2018 @ BOKU
| 08:30 - 11:00
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Arrival, registration
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| 09:15 - 10:40
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Session 1 – Biodiversity – current challenges, future chances
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| 09:15 - 09:40
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Jan Habel (invited speaker) - Conservation in fragile ecosystems of East Africa - Ecological and sociological perspectives
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| 09:40 - 09:55
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Jon Coddington – Global genomic resources for biodiversity research
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| 09:55 - 10:10
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Morgan Gostel – Unlocking the hidden biodiversity in Botanical Gardens through the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens
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| 10:10 - 10:25
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Andrew C. Iloh – Creating the Nigerian Consortium for GGBN: The journey so far
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| 10:25 - 10:40
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Jinfeng Zhou – Current Approaches Made by the CBCGDF on Genetic Conservation of Endangered species in China
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| 10:40 - 11:10
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Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
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| 11:10 - 12:50
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Session 2 – Forest biological diversity – losses and gains
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| 11:10 - 11:35
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Fulvio Ducci (invited speaker) - The Assisted Migration option in the European context: two study cases
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| 11:35 - 11:50
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Jei-Wan Lee – Evaluation of genetic diversity and development of local DNA barcodes for conservation of forest tree species based on genomic analysis
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PDF (Login required)
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| 11:50 - 12:05
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Charalambos Neophytou – The importance of high genetic diversity in a non-native forest tree species: a case study with Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) in Europe
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| 12:05 - 12:20
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Douglas Godbold – Linking ectomycorrhizal community structure to function in trees at the alpine tree line
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| 12:20 - 12:35
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Czesław Kozioł – The role of the Kostrzyca Forest Gene Bank in the biodiversity conservation in Poland
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| 12:35 - 13:40
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Lunch break & poster and company exhibition
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| 13:40 - 16:00
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Session 3 – Why agricultural diversity matters
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| 13:40 - 14:05
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Andreas Börner (invited speaker) - The ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture – state of the art
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| 14:05 - 14:30
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Beate Berger (invited speaker) - Biodiversity and sustainable conservation of farm animal genetic resources - the situation in Austria
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| 14:30 - 14:45
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Muhammad Zahoor – Conservation of local livestock breeds with description of molecular markers for identification
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PDF (Login required)
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| 14:45 - 15:00
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Michal Vinkler – Immunogenetic variability in traditional domestic chicken breeds: agricultural diversity shaped by natural selection
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| 15:00 - 15:15
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Robert Brodschneider – Using honey bees and palynological light microscopy to study biodiversity of bee visited pollen producing plants
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| 15:15 - 15:30
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Andrew C. Iloh – Detection of genetically modified DNA in processed maize and soybean products
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| 15:30 - 16:00
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Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
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| 16:00 - 17:30
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GGBN Policies Task Force Meeting, open for all conference attendees
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| 17:30 - 18:30
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GGBN Document Library and Communications & Outreach Task Force Meeting, open for all conference attendees
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PDF C&O
PDF Doc Lib
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| 19:30
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Conference Dinner at Vienna's Town Hall
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Day 3 – 24.5.2018 @ BOKU
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Session 4 – The hidden biodiversity
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| 09:00 - 09:25
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Anne Willems (invited speaker) - Exploring hidden bacterial diversity in continental Antarctic
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| 09:25 - 09:50
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Birgit Mitter (invited speaker) - Understanding the plant microbiome
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| 09:50 - 10:15
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Maria Holzmann (invited speaker) - Biodiversity of two enigmatic foraminiferal groups, the xenophyophores and freshwater monothalamids
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| 10:15 - 10:30
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Mathias Mayer – Forest disturbance effects on soil fungal guilds and decomposition in a mountain ecosystem
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| 10:30 - 10:45
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Norman Warthmann – Unlocking Genomic Diversity without Assembly or Alignment
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| 10:45 - 11:15
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Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
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| 11:15 - 12:10
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Session 5 – Amazing animals ex and in situ
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| 11:15 - 11:40
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Marlys Houck (invited speaker) - The Frozen Zoo®, The Next Generation of Conservation Science
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| 11:40 - 11:55
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Kim E. Labuschagne – A Biological Back-up of species: the current role of Biodiversity Biobanks
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| 11:55 - 12:10
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Christie O. Onyia – DNA barcoding of endangered avian fauna in captivity
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| 12:10 - 12:25
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Thai Hong Pham – The Biodiversity of Cicada (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae) from Vietnam
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| 12:25 - 12:35
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Conference photo
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| 12:35 - 13:30
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Lunch break & poster and company exhibition
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| 13:30 - 14:30
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GGBN General Assembly Meeting
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| 14:30 - 16:00
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GGBN Biobank Procedures Task Force Meeting, open to all conference attendees
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| 16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
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| 16:30 - 17:30
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''GGBN Data Standards' Task Force Meetings, open to all conference attendees'
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Day 4 – 25.5.2018 @ BOKU
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Session 6 – Biodiversity Biobanks: Sampling & Preservation
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| 09:00 - 09:25
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Breda M. Zimkus (invited speaker) - Current Practices for the Collection and Preservation of Animal Tissue Samples
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PDF (Login required)
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| 09:25 - 09:40
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Jeremy deWaard – The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics: State of the Archives
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| 09:40 - 09:55
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Michele Tixier-Boichard – AgroBRC-RARe: the French research infrastructure for Agronomic Resources
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| 09:55 - 10:10
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Richard Glor – Improving sustainable use of archived genetic resources
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| 10:10 - 10:25
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Santiago Ron – Preserving the tropical branches of the tree of life: the genome bank of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
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| 10:25 - 10:55
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Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
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| 10:55 - 12:35
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Session 7 – Biodiversity Biobank Data and Analytics
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| 10:55 - 11:20
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James Macklin (invited speaker) - Sequence Database (SeqDB): A comprehensive molecular sequence management tool
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| 11:20 - 11:35
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Gabi Droege – GGBN Data Portal, GGBN Data Standard and GGBN Document Library – updates
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| 11:35 - 11:50
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Tim Fulcher – High Throughput Sequencing libraries – Data Standard Proposals from the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
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| 11:50 - 12:05
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Olivier Maurin – The Plant and Fungal Trees of Life Project (PAFTOL) - an update to the development of the angiosperm-wide bait kit for targeted enrichment
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PDF (Login required)
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| 12:05 - 12:20
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Manuel Curto – Establishing a multi marker approach for plant DNA barcoding and metabarcoding
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| 12:20 - 12:35
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Juncai Ma – A global catalogue of microbial genome-type strain sequencing project of WDCM
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| 12:35 - 13:30
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Lunch break & poster and company exhibition
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| 13:30 - 15:30
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Session 8 – ABS & Nagoya protocol
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| 13:30 - 13:55
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Philippe Desmeth (invited speaker) - The CBD and its Nagoya Protocol: Need for holistic approach and constructive attitude
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PDF (Login required)
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| 13:55 - 14:20
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Kathryn Garforth (invited speaker) - The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing: A Framework for Action
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| 14:20 - 14:35
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Breda Zimkus – The Impacts of the Nagoya Protocol on Biodiversity Collections, Collections Management, and Research
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| 14:35 - 14:50
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Manuela da Silva – The Brazilian ABS legislation and the National System for Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge Management
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| 14:50 - 15:05
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Ays Sirakaya – A Workable ABS Regime
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| 15:05 - 15:20
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Kate Davis – Positive examples to promote action and trust in an uncertain ABS world
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| 15:20 - 15:30
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Closure
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| 15:30 - 17:30
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Satellite Event: Workshop ABS & Nagoya protocol
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Agenda, Report
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