The workshop aims to provide a hands-on introduction into important Machine Learning (ML) techniques with the opportunity to discuss their applicability in the context of participants’ data. Biologists with interest in data analysis and little or no prior knowledge of machine learning are encouraged to attend. Basic programming skills (e.g. in Python or R) will be helpful, but are not required.
2.-7. Aug 2020 - 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology
Announcement of the upcoming 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology. ICIM-5: 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, August 2-7, 2020. You can follow ICIM-5 on Twitter @5Icim and download the poster here.
[ARCHIVE] 15.-19. Sep 2019 - Botanikertagung 2019 International Plant Science Conference
Announcement for the Botanikertagung 2019 International Plant Science Conference, which will be held in Rostock from 15-19 September 2019 (botanikertagung2019.de). Early-bird registration fees end on 30 May.
[ARCHIVE] 27.-29. Sep 2019 - Bioinformatics for RADseq data
The focus will be on downstream analyses for species delimitation, detecting hybridization, dealing with polyploidy, and using RAD data. Participants should be familiar with basics of NGS and assembly of RAD data. Block sessions will provide introductions and time for hands-on analysis of data on HPC cluster (Göttingen). Registration is now closed. Please send last minute requests to Claudia Pätzold (claudia.paetzold@uni-goettingen.de).
[ARCHIVE] 28.-29. Jun 2019 - Taxon-omics Annual Meeting - Updated Schedule
From 28-29 June 2019, we will hold our annual meeting at the Munich Botanical Gardens with an optional pre-meeting workshop from 26-27 June. Download the full program with abstracts here or see the schedule below.
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Pre-meeting Workshop: Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 June
Before our annual meeting, we will host a workshop from 26 - 27 June, "Hybridization capture, hyRAD, and targeted capture: workflows in wet and dry lab.”
Thursday afternoon/evening: Optional meetings for labs wishing to discuss ongoing or new collaborations. Being linked within the SPP is among the most important aspects of any priority program. Rooms for small meetings are available all afternoon and evening, or simply go to the Augustiner Keller (18:30h – 21:00h)
Attendees of the pre-meeting workshop on 27. June at the steps of the Munich Botanical Garden.
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Taxon-omics SPP 1991 Annual Meeting
Friday, 28 June
9:00 onwards: Morning coffee (catered); setting-up posters (they will be displayed throughout the meeting)
10:00-11:00 Meetings of lab groups, early-career participants, and potential new participants
11:00-11:15 Philipp Hühn, Mainz: Double digest RADSeq for long loci in phylogenomics –potential applications
11:15-11:30 Nicolas Straube, Munich: Sequencing archival DNA from vertebrate wet collections
11:30-11:45 Janna Peters, Hamburg: Assessing zooplankton biodiversity by proteomic fingerprinting
11:45-12:00 Michael Kloster, Bielefeld: Combining virtual slides, web-based (multi-)expert annotation and image analysis for assembling training image sets for digital diatom analysis
12:00-13:00 Lunch (catered in our building)
13:00-14:00 Summary of activities & resume of the past three years (Renner and other steering committee members)
14:00-15:00 incl. discussion: Professor Wolfgang Wägele, Director of the Museum König in Bonn:
"Biodiversity monitoring requires digital species data and automated identification tools”
15:00-15:30 Coffee break (catered)
15:30-15:45 Bernhard Hausdorf, Hamburg: Species delimitation and geography
15:45-16:00 Torsten Hauffe, Gießen: New methods for species discovery
16:00-16:15 Kevin Karbstein, Göttingen: What is a species? Unraveling biodiversity within the agamic Ranunculus auricomus polyploid complex using RADseq and target enrichment
16:15-16:30 Franziska Patzold, Dresden: Initial procedure in phenomics of Lepidoptera museum specimens to compare wing pattern genes using NGS
16:30-16:45 Sabine Schiwitza, Cologne: Integrative taxonomy of protists exemplified by choanoflagellates
16:45-17:00 Dirk Albach, Oldenburg: Genotyping polyploids with RAD-methods - Insights and challenges
17:00-17:30 Break (no catering)
17:30-18:00 Miguel Vences and Ivaylo Kostadinov: Introduction to GFBio as background to the roundtable on Saturday morning
18:00 Dinner (catered in our building)
Saturday, 29 June
8:30 onwards: Morning coffee (catered)
9:00-10:00 Roundtable on Data deposition efforts in our SPP. Participants: Miguel Vences, Dominik Begerow, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Janine Felden, and Tanja Weibulat
10:00-10:30 Break (not catered)
10:30-10:40 Robin-Tobias Jauss, Leipzig: Deep molecular characterization of protist diversity
10:40-10:50 Susanne Walden, Cologne: Primer design and trouble-shooting: When general eukaryotic primers don’t work
10:50-11:00 Lois Rancilhac, Braunschweig: A history of reticulation and inter-lineage gene flow, reconstructed by a phylotranscriptomic analysis of salamanders and newts (Salamandridae)
11:00-11:10 Lena Steins, Bochum: Comparative genomics of smut fungi indicate incapability of meiotic division in life cycle reduced Ustilaginomycetes
11:10-11:20 Fabian Deister, Munich: Comparative genomics and the nature of species in sponges - case studies in genus Tethya
11:20-11:30 Darrin Hulsey, Konstanz: The genomic basis of diagnostic species phenotypes: will phylogenomics help (or hurt) our taxonomic inferences?
11:30-11:40 Agnes Scheunert, Regensburg: Approaches for tracking polyploidization and hybridization in the young, closely related Leucanthemum complex (Compositae, Anthemideae)
11:40-12:00 OPEN discussion & official farewell
12:00-13:00 Lunch (catered in our building)
Attendees of our 3rd annual meeting on 29. June at the steps of the Munich Botanical Garden.
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Location:
Munich Botanical Gardens
Menzinger Str. 67
80638 Munich, Germany
Public transport: Tram 17 or Bus 143 (see MVG) stop “Botanischer Garten.”
Download more information about getting to our Institute or about cheap local accommodations.
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Email schuster.tanja@lmu.de or renner@lmu.de for more information.
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For additional updates check here or on our Facebook page (facebook.com/dfg.taxonomics).
[ARCHIVE] 26.-27. Jun 2019 - Workshop "Hybridization capture, hyRAD, and targeted capture: workflows in the wet and dry lab"
Organised by Oliver Hawlitschek, Zoologische Staatssammlung München at the Munich Botanical Institute. For more information and to register, email hawlitschek@snsb.de.
To see the program, click here.
[ARCHIVE] 24.-27. Feb 2019 - 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics
[ARCHIVE] 18.-21. Feb 2019 - Workshop "The background and application of ddRAD"
Organized by Philipp Hühn, Gudrun Kadereit, and Thibaud Messerschmid (University of Mainz), and Kevin Karbstein (University of Goettingen) at the Institute of Molecular Physiology, University of Mainz.
The major aim of this workshop is to impart practical experience for a ddRAD lab work flow including all steps from the restriction-digest to the final DNA library. We will discuss all sorts of potential hurdles, traps and mistakes that might cause suboptimal data quality and yield. Our modified ddRAD protocol is optimized for long loci with the aim to perform gene tree analyses with the data, however, we will also discuss other protocols of the RADfamily. The participants are invited to bring their own DNA samples (preferably of high quality) to test our lab workflow for their study group. Since our lab is small, we have to restrict the number of participants to eight.
[ARCHIVE] 15.-16. Mar 2018 - Workshop “Introduction to target DNA enrichment methods”
Workshop for SPP 1991 members at the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum König in Bonn.
[ARCHIVE] 20.-21. Oct 2017 - Taxon-omics Annual Meeting
First joint meeting of all Taxon-omics DFG SPP 1991 PIs including students and postdocs (50 project members) at the Munich Botanical Gardens in Germany. See the meeting program.
