Registration until October 15th, 2017 by e-mail to

Michaela Sonnleitner (abol.msonnleitner@gmail.com)

The contribution fee of € 15,-- can be paid on site

Free for students

The meeting will be held in English, public talks in German

Organized byABOL – Austrian Barcode of Life

www.abol.ac.at Natural History Museum Vienna

www.nhm-wien.ac.at

ABOL – a mission for

Austrian biodiversity research

4th ABOL meetingOctober 20th, 2017

Natural History Museum ViennaBurgring 7, 1010 Vienna

AUSTRIANBARCODEOF LIFE

AUSTRIANBARCODEOF LIFE

4th ABOL Meeting, 20th of October 2017

Program

08:00–09:00 Registration

Welcome & Introduction

09:00–09:20 Welcome (NHM Vienna, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy)

Chair: Frank Zachos (NHM Vienna)

09:20–09:40 Nikolaus Szucsich (NHM Vienna): The Austrian Barcode of Life: What did we accomplish during the past years?

09:40–10:00 Stephan Koblmüller (Univ. of Graz): The Austrian Barcode of Life: Looking into the future

10:00–10:45 Coffee break with poster session

Chair: Stephan Koblmüller (Univ. of Graz)

10:00–10:45 Poster session

Panel discussion: DNA barcoding – benefits and risks?

Chair: Christian Sturmbauer (Univ. of Graz)

10:45–11:05 Andreas Chovanec (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management): Aspects from the perspective of water body assessment and monitoring

11:05–12:00 Andreas Chovanec (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management), Christian Komposch (Ökoteam), Nikola Szucsich (NHM Vienna), Christian Moritz (ARGE Limnologie), Luise Kruckenhauser (NHM Vienna), Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ. of Guelph), Thomas Pröschold (Univ. of Innsbruck), Andreas Tribsch (Univ. of Salzburg): Panel discussion

Recent advances in DNA barcoding

Chair: Gerhard Steiner (Univ. of Vienna)

13:30–14:10 Key note: Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ. of Guelph): Biodiversity & Citizen Science in the Genomics Era

14:10–14:30 Carina Zittra (Univ. of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna): Diptera of medical importance and beyond

14:30–14:50 Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber (Univ. of Vienna), Martin Grube (Univ. of Graz): DNA barcoding of fungi and lichens in Austria

15:10–15:30 Manuel Antonio Cardoso Curto (Univ. of Natural Resources and Life

Sciences, Vienna): Developing resources for pollen metabarcoding to study foraging behaviour of wild bees.

15:30–15:50 Iris Fischer, Marcia Sittenthaler (NHM Vienna): Lab coat & wading boots - species inventory, FFH monitoring and DNA barcoding of dragonflies in Vienna

15:50–16:10 Bettina Thalinger (Univ. of Innsbruck): Monitoring fish spawning migrations via visual observations and eDNA in rivers around lake “Mondsee” after dam removal

16:10–16:30 Martina Podnar (Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb): Crossing borders: CROBOL meets ABOL

Öffentliche Vorträge / public talks

Chair: Helmut Sattmann (NHM Wien)

17:10–17:50 Konrad Fiedler (Univ. Wien): Biodiversität im 21 Jhdt.: Hochwertiges Management braucht ein sicheres Erkennen der Vielfalt

17:50–18:30 Elisabeth Haring (NHM Wien): Austrian Barcode of Life – Die Digitalisierung der Vielfalt

Closing remarks

19:00 Farewell reception

12:00–13:30 Lunch break

14:50–15:10 Coffee break

16:30–17:10 Coffee break