Next Generation Sequencing in Biodiversity Studies

A 1-day Mini-Symposium on December 9th, 2010

Venue: Auditorium (Pesthuis) NCB Naturalis (Darwinweg 2, Leiden)
Admission: free
Registration: by sending an e-mail to secretariaatonderzoek@ncbnaturalis.nl

Program

9.30    Registration
9.45    Opening (Jan van Tol)
     
9.55    Pierre Taberlet: Keynote lecture: DNA metabarcoding: high throughput plant and animal identification
     
10.35     Menno Schilthuizen, Dick Groenenberg & Paul Brakefield: Fishing for speciation genes in a land snail hybrid zone 
10.55    Ursula Jaros & Barbara Gravendeel: Population genetic analysis of Malagassy orchids
   
11.15    Coffee break
     
11.45    Barbara Gravendeel, Kris van der Gaag & József Geml: DNA barcoding of fossil dung fungi
12.05    Jeremy Miller, Renske Schelfhorst & Menno Schilthuizen: 454-Sequencing and animal biodiversity assessment: Proof of Principle
12.25    József Geml & Machiel E. Noordeloos: Biodiversity assessment of sand dune fungal communities along the North Sea Coast
12.45     Eric Coissac: DNA metabarcoding: the bioinformatic point of view
     
12.50    Lunch break + demonstrations 
     
14.00    Peter de Knijff: Keynote lecture: No more PCR!: The power of true single molecule sequencing
14.40    Christian Boedeker: Photosynthesis without RuBisCO? The quest for chloroplast genes in the order Cladophorales (Chlorophyta)
     
15.00    Tea break
     
15.30     Freek Vonk & Pim Arntzen: Snake Genomics
15.50    Janine Ziermann, Mike Richardson & Pim Arntzen: Salamander transcriptome sequencing for evo devo research
     
16.10    Closing + demonstrations by:
  • ServiceXS, Leiden
  • Leiden Genome Technology Centre
  • Baseclear, Leiden
  • GATC Biotech, Konstanz
  • Bioké, Leiden

Tuesday, November 30, 2010