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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!
The ABOL coordination team and the DNA laboratory of the Central Research Laboratories presented DNA barcoding in different aspects and applications.… Read more
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.… Read more
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.… Read more
BIO-PLANBAR, a new ABOL project
Highlights, ProjectsWe are pleased to announce that under the lead of the University of Graz (Dr. Stephan Koblmüller) in cooperation with the Universalmuseum Joanneum (Mag. Wolfgang Paill) and the Ökoteam as economic partner (Dr. Werner Holzinger) another ABOL project has started. In the BRIDGE-1 project BIO-PLANBAR (FFG, BMVIT) the use of DNA barcoding for more efficient species identification in the context of conservation conformity of planning processes of major construction projects will be investigated.… Read more
8th International Barcode of Life Conference
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community, dear biodiversity enthusiasts,
Next year the the global barcoding community is meeting in Trondheim, Norway at the 8th iBOL conference. If you are interested to join, please save the 17.-20. June 2019 in your calendar. The conference website is already online. Under you will find information about the venue and the key data for the conference.… Read more
New literatur on DNA barcoding
Highlights, PublicationsWho does not know them from the own garden, the Spanish slug? A study at the BOKU Vienna showed that Citizen Scientists can contribute to investigate the abundance of slugs of the genus Arion in private gardens. The quality of determinations could be kept high in the study by using the DNA barcoding approach.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – Information on workshops
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community and biodiversity enthusiasts,
As we have already announced, this year’s ABOL meeting will take place on 6th and 7th of December at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
The first day of the conference (6.12.) is dedicated to the practice this year.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – registration now open!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community and interested people!
the registration for our annual ABOL meeting, which takes place on December, 6th and 7th at the Natural History Museum Vienna, is now open. Please send an e-mail to abol@nhm-wien.ac.at. This year talks and poster can be submitted.… Read more
New exhibition in Graz: Hotspot Mur. Concealed emeralds
Highlights, MeetingsThe special exhibition „Hotspot Mur. Concealed emeralds“ in the Natural History Museum in Graz presents a wide variety of partly quite rare species of animals and plants. All of them inhabit the waters, banks and floodplains of the River Mur. An exciting example of the tremendous biodiversity of the river is the discovery of the “emerald-Gressling”, a fish species known exclusively from the River Mur.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – Save the date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 06-07 of December 2018 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. On Thursday 06 of December we want to organize a workshop on “eDNA and metabarcoding”, which is aimed at stakeholders. On Friday, scientific talks address the professional audience and the interested public.… Read more
Relaunch of the ABOL website
HighlightsReflecting the transition from the pilot phase into the Austria-wide ABOL Initiative our website now shines in a new splendor.
Our relaunch shows many running projects under the option ABOL Initiative. The assignment to organism-specific clusters is meant to ease your search for certain projects.… Read more
Radio-Beitrag über ABOL
HighlightsLiebe ABOL-Interessierte,
am Montag den 22.1. war die Sendung Dimensionen (Ö1) der ABOL-Initiative gewidmet. Unter dem Titel Inventur des Lebens beleuchtete der Beitrag von Birgit Dalheimer unter Mitwirkung von Helmut Sattmann (NHM), Elisabeth Haring (NHM), Frank Zachos (NHM), Thomas Friedrich (BOKU) und Carina Zittra (VetMed) verschiedenste Aspekte von ABOL – von der Referenzdatenbank bis zur Anwendung – in sehr anschaulicher Weise.… Read more
ABOL Meeting 2017 – takeoff into the future
Highlights, MeetingsOur this year´s annual meeting ABOL4 took place on October 20th, 2017 under a number of lucky stars! Firstly, good news from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and Economy came just in time: The coordination of ABOL is going to be funded for the next three years!… Read more