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DNA metasystematics in the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge of Costa Rica
Ph.D. student Katie McGee recently returned from a six-week field research trip of the humid Atlantic lowland rainforests of the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge (MNWLR) located in the Northern Zone of Costa Rica. She was there under a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant, serving as the Read more…
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Biomonitoring 2.0 hosts major molecular workshops at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting
May, 2014 saw the first ever Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Over 3,500 members of the Society for Freshwater Science, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Phycological Society of America, and Society of Freshwater Scientists gathered for a five-day meeting. Members of the Biomonitoring 2.0 team Read more…
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Biomonitoring 2.0 team publishes NGS biodiversity results in PNAS
The Biomonitoring 2.0 team published their latest findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. The Gibson et al. study continues the teams’ research into timely, cost-effective approaches to identifying the contents of species-rich mixed environmental samples. Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit Read more…
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Student and PostDoc presentations at the OE3C
The Hajibabaei Lab was well represented at the Ontario Ecology Evolution and Ethology Colloquium (OE3C) held May 8-10th, 2014 at the University of Guelph. Students, post docs, and faculty from universities all over the province (as well as a few out of province) were in attendance, presenting research from a Read more…
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Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!
Our lab members had great success in wining major scholarships. Congratulations to our scholarship recipients: Joel Gibson: NSERC PDF (2013-2015) Ian King: MITACS PDF (2013-2015) Gina Capretta: NSERC MSc (2013-14) Nicole Fahner: NSERC MSc (2013-14) We also congratulate our USRA summer and 4th-year project student Sarah Salisbury for winning an Read more…
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Mehrdad Hajibabaei to deliver public lecture at “Genomics: The Power and the Promise”
Dr. Mehrdad Hajibabaei will be presenting a public lecture on Wednesday, November 28th, at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The public lecture is part of “Genomics: The Power and the Promise”, a Gairdner Foundation-Genome Canada State-of-the-Science event. The title of the talk will be “Genomics for Biodiversity”. Read more…
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Environmental Barcoding in the Costa Rican Tropical Dry Forest: Hajibabaei Lab research in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste.
In the latest example of the Hajibabaei Lab’s ongoing work with the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), masters’ student Lisa Ledger and Steven Blewett, a volunteer research assistant have just returned from a one week field study of the tropical dry forest of Sector Santa Rosa. Tropical dry forest is Read more…
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Paper – The golden age of DNA metasystematics
Mehrdad Hajibabaei has published a new paper entitled “The golden age of DNA metasystematics” in the journal Trends in Genetics. From the Summary: “The convergence of next-generation sequencing and DNA barcoding has sparked a golden age of ‘DNA metasystematics’, allowing researchers to understand the biodiversity of an entire ecosystem solely Read more…