The ABOL coordination team offers workshops to learn how to use the ABOL database. The workshops are designed for beginners, thus previous knowledge about the database software specify or databases in general is not required. Details The first ABOL database workshop took place on the 6th of November. The next workshops will be held at […]
Dear ABOL friends and colleagues interested in biodiversity, the ABOL meeting will take place in two weeks! With pleasure we announce the final program. Some changes concerning the speakers had to be made. Unfortunately, Paul Hebert had to cancel his attendance. But, we are happy to welcome Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ. of Guelph, Chief Architect of […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, the preliminary program of the this year´s ABOL meeting is now available and can be downloaded here: program-abol-meeting2017 The meeting takes place on 20th of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. We are happy to announce a keynote-lecture of Prof. Paul Hebert (University of Guelph, Canada), the […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, to avoid synchrony with the ÖEG Fachgespräche (October 21st, 2017, BOKU) the ABOL meeting will take place on October 20th, 2017 from 9:00 to ca. 20:00. We will start with talks, a panel discussion and a poster session. In the afternoon two public talks will be followed by […]
Dear ABOL community & all interested people, we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative. Two public talks will […]
Dear ABOL community, this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project. Please save the date! Further information will be given in time. Best wishes, the ABOL-Team
For all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL! https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/ We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity. Enjoy our page!
With March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership. Project partners are the University of Vienna, the University of […]
Dear ABOL community, it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently! In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg. Both […]
Dear ABOL community,
this year again our ABOL meeting took place at the Schlossmuseum Linz – we would like to thank the people from the Upper Austrian State Museums for hosting! We are very happy, that so many of you joined the meeting. A special thank to all the speakers for the interesting talks concerning this year’s main topic “Applied aspects of DNA barcoding”. The talks provided a comprehensive overview of the power of DNA barcoding and stimulated lively discussions.
We hope, that the meeting was interesting and successful for all participants and provided sufficient space for conversations and networking.
Please find some impressions in our picture gallery (photo credits by F. Gusenleitner, H. Sattmann, M. Sonnleitner)
Best wishes,
your ABOL team
V. KarglABOL at the Long Night of Museums 202426. November, 2024 - 15:18Are names written in the genes? We pursued this question at the Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 5, 2024, until late into the night! Different aspects of DNA barcoding were presented by the ABOL coordination team and the central research laboratories: Visitors were welcome to try extract DNA from tomatoes live, put together […]
M. SonnleitnerABOL BioBlitz in the Hohen Tauern8. August, 2024 - 14:55The last ABOL BioBlitz 2024 during the Days of Biodiversity took place on the first weekend in August in the Hohe Tauern National Park. In almost traditionally bad weather, around 75 experts swarmed out to record biodiversity in the Habachtal in the Salzburg part of the Hohe Tauern National Park. The breaks in the rain […]
M. SonnleitnerGEO Day of Biodiversity in South Carinthia17. July, 2024 - 15:04On the first weekend in July, the ABOL-BioBlitz was a guest at the GEO Day of Biodiversity in the Geopark Karawanken, this year for the first time in southern Carinthia. After the welcome and introductory words in Bleiburg, the Globasnitzbachtal was investigated in the afternoon and evening of the first day. There was something for […]