It is time again for my online Metabarcoding course: This course provides an overview of the state of current technology and the various sequencing platforms used. It consists of a series of online lectures and research exercises and will go over 4 weeks but is designed in a fashion that you can go through course content at your own pace and according to your own schedule with work worth 4-8h per week. The course is fully asynchronous to accommodate for participants from various time zones. We still strive to make it as interactive as possible. I have updated course content to include the ..read more

I am looking for a new Postdoctoral Fellow. Here the official posting: Land Acknowledgement The University of Guelph resides on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize this gathering place where we work and learn is home to many past, present, and future First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Our acknowledgement of the land is our declaration of our collective responsibility to this place and its peoples’ histories, rights, and presence.   General Information (Six PDF Positions Available) This post-doctoral position will be part of the Food from T ..read more

 NINA is among Norway’s largest applied ecology research institutes with approximately 300 employees. NINA´s staff conducts natural and social science research related to interactions between humans and nature. The company’s head office is located in Trondheim, adjacent to the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) Gløshaugen campus. NINA also has satellite offices in Oslo, Lillehammer, Bergen and Tromsø, and a salmonid research station at Ims in Rogaland County. The position will be based in NINA´s Department for Aquatic Biodiversity in Trondheim. NINA conducts high ..read more

The LOEWE Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG) aims at making the genomic basis of biological diversity accessible for basic and applied research. Building on genome sequencing and analysis, LOEWE-TBG research topics range from comparative genomics, natural products genomics, and genomic biomonitoring to functional environmental genomics. LOEWE-TBG is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and is a joint venture of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN), Goethe-University Frankfurt, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biol ..read more

 Instructor - yours truly. Early bird deadline - register soon! The use of DNA Barcoding continues to enhance species identification and biodiversity conservation. Stay up-to-date with the latest research and join the growing industry with Introduction to DNA Barcoding. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn from prominent DNA researcher Dirk Steinke as he guides you through a variety of topics that showcase the different applications of DNA Barcoding. Course dates: January 17 to March 13, 2022 Don't forget to register by Decembe ..read more

From the Inbox: Dear colleagues,   I'm currently offering two PhD positions in my recently started SAW-funded junior research group on "Hybrid swarm evolution of native and invasive Phoxinus spp. to the river Sieg, Germany" at the ZMB and ZTM. For those wondering: it's vertebrates --> fish.   The exciting thing is that I am looking for i) one person specialising on ecology and morphology of the fishes and ii) the other person focusing on the genomics. So I'd say the project encompasses a large bouquet for different interests and abilities that jointly venture to un ..read more

 Changing wild bee species distributions and pollination service shifts A MSc graduate student position is available in my research group in the Department of Integrative Biology at the College of Biological Sciences - University of Guelph. Research in our group focusses on biodiversity genomics and the development of metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches for biodiversity research. We seek not only information on how communities are composed but also how its members are interconnected and interdependent. In addition to simply counting and registering we explore relations ..read more

A reminder that this course will start in a little over a month. The deadline for Early bird registration is January 31st to receive a discount.  I have updated course content to include the newest HTS technology and methods such as metagenomics and transcriptomics.  Throughout the course, we will explore: High throughput sequencing Metabarcoding/Metagenomics Metabarcoding analytics Recent applications The course consists of a series of online lectures, research exercises, and group discussions where you have a chance to review the state of current technology, the vari ..read more

I will be teaching our Metabarcoding course again coming March (March 01, 2021 to March 28, 2021). This course will provide an overview of the state of current technology and the various sequencing platforms used. The course consists of a series of online lectures and research exercises introducing different aspects of metabarcoding and metagenomics. We will also touch on the suite of bioinformatics tools available for sequence analysis and data interpretation. The course goes over 4 weeks but is designed in a fashion that you can go through course content at your own pace and according to y ..read more

 WoRMS needs YOU!    WoRMS is a highly collaborative effort of over 500 involved experts, but we need all users – taxonomists, ecologists and non-scientists – to help us to keep WoRMS up-to-date and correct. If you find an error or an omission, please get in touch with us directly. Direct contact can fix errors a lot faster and more efficient than the WoRMS Team having to learn about these through peer-reviewed publications.   The World Register of Marine Species is a community driven effort to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Th ..read more