GGBN Conference 2023/Program

Program

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Most of the presentations are now available through the GGBN Document Library as open access docs, some are available in the library only. Links are provided below. Presentations with restricted access can be located on the Document Library under the Category “GGBN Conferences,” Subcategory “GGBN 2018 Conference. Please contact library@ggbn.org to request a library account.

Day 1 – 17.10.2023

08:00 - 09:00	Arrival, check in
09:05 - 09:35	Urgency and Ethics: A Dilemma for Biobanking and Biodiversity Discovery - Oliver Ryder, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance IUCN-SSC Animal Biobanking for Conservation Specialist Group
	Session IA Biodiversity Biobank Collections: Infrastructure Chairs - Gilberto Ocampo and Ana Lourdes Medrano
09:35 - 09:45	The Vertebrate Genetic Resources Facility at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute - Andy Bentley, University of Kansas	PDF
09:45 - 09:55	Biological Collection of Tissues/DNA Host-Parasite Relationship: Infrastructure, Researcher Training and Visibility Strategies - Angie Gozález, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogota	PDF
09:55 - 10:05	Biodiversity Biobanking at the Natural History Museum London – a Big New Facility at Thames Valley Science Park, Reading, UK - Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds, National Museum of Natural History, London	PDF
10:05 - 10:15	Living Collections of the GermoLab Botanical Garden (CICY) - Aleida R. Díaz Castellanos, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán	PDF
10:15 - 10:30	Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:40	Managing Plant Repositories in Uganda amidst Limited Resources - Mutegeki Alislam Said Musa, Tooro Botanical Gardens	PDF
10:40 - 10:50	UFS Yeast culture collection: Meeting the needs of researchers - Adepemi Ogundeji, University of the Free State, South Africa	PDF
10:50 - 11:00	The New Fiocruz Biodiversity and Health Biobank - Manuela da Silva, Fiocruz, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation	PDF
11:00 - 11:10	Conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: The South African Approach - Thabo Tjikana, Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development
11:10 - 11:20	Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures - Melania Muñoz García, Leibniz Institute
11:20 - 11:30	Keeping it chilled: A South African catalogue of Wildlife Biodiversity - Kim Labuschagne, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa	PDF
11:30 - 11:40	LIB Biobank at Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany - Jonas Astrin, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
11:40 - 13:30	Lunch Break
	Session IB Biodiversity Biobank Collections: Sample Management Chairs - Gilberto Ocampo and Ana Lourdes Medrano
13:30 - 13:40	Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Tissue and DNA Collections’ Management using the JABOT system - Luciana Franco
13:40 - 13:50	Establishment and conservation of an in vitro Germplasm Bank of plant species from the arid zones of México - Eugenio Perez Molphe Balch, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
13:50 - 14:00	Unlocking collection treasures: Accessing museum samples for long read sequencing and genomic analysis - Bernhard Bein
14:00 - 14:10	Sample management in the DNA Bank of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico - Gilberto Ocampo, Universidad de Aguascalientes
14:10 - 14:20	Establishing a Biobank at The Huntington - Brian Dorsey, The Huntington Botanical Gardens
14:20 - 14:30	Agrobiodiversity Index, Challenges, Opportunities and Trends - Kakha Nadiradze, Farmers Rights Defense, National Gene Bank Association of Georgia
14:30 - 14:40	Keeping it chilled: A South African catalogue of Wildlife Biodiversity - Kim Labuschagne, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa
14:40 - 14:50	Skimming at scale: bringing historic collections into the genomic era - Andie Hall, Natural History Museum, London
14:50 - 15:00	Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the State University of Campinas - Ilio Montanari Jr., State University of Campinas
15:15 - 15:20	Afternoon Coffee Break
	Session II Environmental Samples and Data Chairs - Karen James, Rachel Meyer, Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds, Jonas Astrin
15:20 - 15:30	Connecting environmental samples to a biodiversity information system to make dataaccessible - Beth Kaplin, Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management,University of Rwanda
15:30 - 15:40	Towards inclusivity in molecular method standardization for biodiversity assessment - Kristian Meissner, Finnish Environment Institute, Syke
15:40 - 15:50	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Biorepository - Rebecca Pugh,National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chemical Sciences Division
15:50 - 16:00	Environmental specimen banks in research and regulation for a better environmental quality - Jan Koschorreck, The German Environment Agency
16:00 - 16:10	Diversidad Taxonómica y Patrones de Distribución de Microorganismos en la ColecciónCBUDES: Biobanco de microorganismos del nororiente colombiano - Natalia Bravo-Granados,Diversidad Taxonómica y Patrones de Distribución de Microorganismos en la Colección CBUDES
16:10 - 16:20	Maine-eDNA: a case study for large-scale environmental sampling, metadata collection anddata management in one of the world’s fastest-warming ocean regions - Karen James, University of Maine
16:20 - 16:30	Summary of our experience in application of remote techniques for environmental samplecollection - Blagoy Uzunov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Faculty of Biology, Departmentof Botany
16:30 - 16:40	CALeDNA: Environmental collections to enable landscape biodiversity surveys and models ofcommunity change - Rachel Meyer, University of California CALeDNA Program
16:40 - 16:50	Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics - John Williams, University of Wisconsin Madison
16:50 - 17:00	Diatoms, a model group for DNA Barcoding - Belen Escobari, Botanischer Garten undBotanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin

Day 2 – 18.10.2023

	Session III – Cell Banking and Culture Collections Chairs - Oliver Ryder, Jonas Astrin and Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds
09:00 - 09:13	The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank – Advancing Microbiome Research for Sustainable - Agriculture - Rodrigo Taketani, Rothamsted Research
09:13 - 09:26	Strategy for the Biobanking of Potato Genetic Resources at the IPK Genebank - Manuela Nagel, Leibniz-Institut (IPK)
09:26 - 09:39	South African National Collection of Fungi: An established resource on the continent - Riana Jacobs-Venter, National Collection of Fungi
09:39 - 09:52	The World Federation of Culture Collections and the Global Genome Biodiversity Network: Sharing the Same Mission for Sustainable Futures - Ipek Kurtböke*, World Federation of Culture Collections
09:52 - 10:05	Establishing model lineage systems to study inter-species advanced reproductive approaches - Francisco Pelegri, University of Wisconsin, Madison
10:05 - 10:18	Important Considerations for Biobanking for Genetic Rescue of Endangered Species - Ben Novak, Revive and Restore
10:18 - 10:33	Morning Coffee break
10:33 - 10:46	Introducing Nature’s SAFE: a European Biobank for Conservation - Tullis Matson, Nature's Safe
10:46 - 10:59	Reproductive biotechnologies and Genetic Resource Banks Applied to Wildlife Conservation in Argentina - Adrián Sestelo, Gerencia Operativa de Conservación y Gestión de Fauna
10:59 - 11:12	Projects at LIB Biobank Enabling Cell Banking and Protocol Collection - Jonas Astrin, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
11:12 - 11:25	PCRYOZOO Biobank of Animal Cell Lines - Tomàs Marquès and Cira Martínez, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
11:25 - 11:38	Organoids for Biobanking and Cellular Agriculture - Julie Strand, Aarhus University
11:38 - 11:51	Living algal collection of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (ACUS)- Important Ex-Situ Biodiversity Conservation Facility, which Maintains High-quality Algal Strains - Need for Biobanking of Algae in Bulgaria – a Country on the Balkan Peninsula with Extra Rich Biodiversity - Maya Stoyneva and Kristian Ivanov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
11:51 - 12:04	Biobank of Megadiverse Fauna of Brazil - Maria José de Jesus Silva, Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução
11:51 - 12:04	Lunch break
	Session IV – Biobanking in megadiverse countries and the Southern Hemisphere Chairs - Kim Labuschagne
13:30 - 13:45	Pangolins: Cultural Use, Illegal Trade and the Scientific Importance of Biobanking Specimens in South Africa - Ray Jansen, Zoological Society of London
13:45 - 14:00	Biobanking in a Megadiverse Country: a Brief review of Brazilian Current Initiatives - Paulo Holanda, Bioquallis Consulting, Curitiba, Paraná
14:00 - 14:15	Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa: A Distributed Network of Repositories for South Africa's Rich Biodiversity - Mudzuli Mavhunga, Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa
14:15 - 14:30	The importance of the Humboldt Institute Tissue Collection for Biodiversity Research and Conservation in a Megadiverse Country - Gustavo Bravo, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt
14:30 - 14:45	Infrastructure and Management of a Large-scale Genome Bank in a Megadiverse Developing Country. A Case Study in Ecuador - Diego Paucar, Museo de Zoología
14:45 - 15:00	Using Biodiversity Biobanking to Enhance Plant Conservation in the Megadiverse Country South Africa - Ross Stewart, African Centre for DNA Barcoding
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee break
	Workshop I: Policies for Molecular Collections, GGBN data standard, and workflows for publishing data Chair - Astrid de Mestier
15:30 - 15:45	Management of Genetic Resources in Natural History Collections using Specify Collection Management Software - Andrew Bentley, University of Kansas
15:45 - 16:00	Symbiota-based Services for Publishing Genomic Collections Data - Nico Franz, Arizona State University
16:00 - 16:15	Molecular Collections Handbook - Astrid de Mestier, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
16:15 - 16:30	GGBN Data Standard, and Workflows for Publishing data - Jörg Holetschek, Botanischer Garten Berlin

Day 3 – 19.10.2023

09:00 - 10:45	Session 4 – The hidden biodiversity
09:00 - 09:25	Anne Willems (invited speaker) - Exploring hidden bacterial diversity in continental Antarctic
09:25 - 09:50	Birgit Mitter (invited speaker) - Understanding the plant microbiome
09:50 - 10:15	Maria Holzmann (invited speaker) - Biodiversity of two enigmatic foraminiferal groups, the xenophyophores and freshwater monothalamids	PDF
10:15 - 10:30	Mathias Mayer – Forest disturbance effects on soil fungal guilds and decomposition in a mountain ecosystem
10:30 - 10:45	Norman Warthmann – Unlocking Genomic Diversity without Assembly or Alignment	PDF
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
11:15 - 12:10	Session 5 – Amazing animals ex and in situ
11:15 - 11:40	Marlys Houck (invited speaker) - The Frozen Zoo®, The Next Generation of Conservation Science
11:40 - 11:55	Kim E. Labuschagne – A Biological Back-up of species: the current role of Biodiversity Biobanks
11:55 - 12:10	Christie O. Onyia – DNA barcoding of endangered avian fauna in captivity	PDF
12:10 - 12:25	Thai Hong Pham – The Biodiversity of Cicada (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae) from Vietnam	PDF
12:25 - 12:35	Conference photo
12:35 - 13:30	Lunch break & poster and company exhibition
13:30 - 14:30	GGBN General Assembly Meeting	PDF
14:30 - 16:00	GGBN Biobank Procedures Task Force Meeting, open to all conference attendees	PDF
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break & poster and company exhibition
16:30 - 17:30	''GGBN Data Standards' Task Force Meetings, open to all conference attendees'	PDF

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GGBN Conference 2023

• Icebreaker
• Organizing Committee
• Program
• Registration and Abstract Submission
• Session Descriptions
• Transportation and Hotel
• Travel Grants