The 6th International Barcode of Life Conference takes place at the University of Guelph, Canada, from August 18-21, 2015. The theme of the 6th Conference, Barcodes to Biomes, addresses ecological applications of DNA barcoding. Other topics encompass bioinformatics, taxonomy, and conservation. Registration is open at http://dnabarcodes2015.org/registration/. … Read more
Dear Biodiversity Community,
The ABOL Team wishes a successful and diverse 2015.
With warm regards
Your ABOL-Team… Read more
Dear Biodiversity Community,
now that our ABOL KickOff-Meeting is over, we want to thank all of you which have participated and thus helped to make the meeting fruitful and successful. Special thanks to all speakers, which gave us a nice overview, both on the status of biodiversity research in Austria, and on the possibilities of how a national DNA-Barcoding project could contribute to the latter.… Read more
Dear Biodiversity Community.
We cordially invite all people interested in Austrian biodiversity to the Kick-off meeting of ABOL, the Austrian Barcode of Life Initiative. The Meeting will take place on the 13.th and 14.th of November 2014 at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna.
The general presentation of the ABOL-Initiative will take place on Thursday, the 13.th… Read more
ABOL was one focus at the “Workshop alpine landsnails” in Johnsbach, Styria. Nikola Szucsich presented the ABOL project and pointed out the outstanding importance of nature conservation areas for biodiversity in general and thus for biodiversity research and conservation in particular. In this respect the National Park Gesäuse with its numerous endemics was an appropriate location to present the endeavours of the ABOL initiative to register the fauna and flora of Austria by means of integrative taxonomic methods and with a proper database solution.… Read more
We are pleased to announce the launch of the ABOL Homepage!
Daniela Lutz, webmaster and the 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!
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