ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Scott Hayward at the University of Birmingham towards the costs of species-level identification of the insect sample archive taken from the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire. Samples are being processed for DNA barcoding as part of the UK-wide BIOSCAN project run by the Sanger Institute.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (10 February) featuring Mara Lawniczak and Lyndall Pereira from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, speaking about the BIOSCAN flying insect biodiversity sequencing project. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 10 February 2023 and will feature guest speakers Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa and Mara Lawniczak from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Lyndall and Mara will be speaking about the 5-year BIOSCAN project to monitor the diversity of flying insects across 100 sites using DNA sequencing. They will be supported by project participant Kris Hart from the BIFoR-FACE LTE who will briefly ‘champion’ wider LTE involvement in the project. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
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