CBD SecGen "Planetary health" of ecosystems, biodiversity will contribute to human health - Rockefeller/Lancet partnership #dnabarcodes2015

Paul Hebert proposes multi-billion $ planetary barcode initiative: automation, student/citizen collectors, BINs #dnabarcodes2015

Paul Hebert's Planetary Biodiversity Mission - build a 2nd Svalbaard vault for DNA extracts alongside seed bank #dnabarcodes2015

Smithsonian's Yves Basset on ForestGEO monitoring plots around world, collecting/barcoding plants, insects, pop'n dynamics #dnabarcodes2015

Yves Basset - BINs as good as spp names if you're interested in yearly changes in community composition #dnabarcodes2015

Rosemary Gillespie using Hawaiian Is chain as a microevol'n time sequence: fragmented habitats lead to mitochon divergence #dnabarcodes2015

Gillespie: spider spp on older smaller islands hop to younger ones, persist & begin diversification w/in ecomorph again #dnabarcodes2015

Melania Cristescu: marine sampling of Canadian ports looking for invasive/fouling species using metabarcoding #dnabarcodes2015

Critescu: method valid'n used controlled mixtures; only 25% of spp identifiable in real mixtures; need better ref library! #dnabarcodes2015

Thibaud Decaens: earthworm div'y across habitats, French Guiana: 148 MOTUs w huge barcode gap; metabarcoding should work! #dnabarcodes2015

Pest biosurveillance: Longhorn beetle larvae in wooden chairs from China, ID's w barcodes. Heat treatment failure! #dnabarcodes2015

Regulatory barcode session, Can Food Inspection Agency; forest beetles most desctructive pest in history. hiding in imports #dnabarcodes2015

Some of most stunning talks at #dnabarcodes2015 - specimens as ecosystems (symbionts, parasites, gut contents); metabarcoding helps unravel

Sujeevan Ratnasingham on #barcodinglife: nested datasets from low quality to pristine curated records for regulatory use #dnabarcodes2015

Rod Page Roderic Page presents @ #dnabarcodes2015 steady product'n of taxon names vs steep rise of GenBank records - invest in one or integrate?

20-50% of seafood mislabeled everywhere according to barcodes; forget red snapper - really 28 different spp substitutes #dnabarcodes2015

mislabeled fish can be cheap subs, endangered spp, even spp unsafe for consumption; US Task Force has 18 mo deadline #dnabarcodes2015

Nancy Knowlton Smithsonian prelim results show big impact of dissolved CO2 in natural seeps on biodiversity, abundance #dnabarcodes2015

Eduardo Eizirik PUCRS - multilocus barcoding needed in hybridiz'n cases like 2 jaguar species in Brazil #dnabarcodes2015

E Eizirik - Brazil BOL network, US$3 mil, 4 years, 100 groups, 500 people, all museums, health, agric created musuem labs #dnabarcodes2015