5th International Barcode of Life Conference - sneak preview

Today an exclusive preview of the program for the 5th International Barcode of Life Conference in Kunming (27-31. Oct 2013). Over the next couple of days the conference website will be updated quite a bit and more detailed calls for participation and abstracts will go out to everyone. I'll keep you posted on all new developments via this blog as well. Stay tuned and you won't miss any news!

Conference Sessions

All conference sessions will be held at the Lian Yuan Hotel in Kunming.

Preliminary Conference Schedule - 5th International Barcode of Life Conference
Kunming, China (27 - 31 October 2013)
	Sunday, 10/27	Monday, 10/28	Tuesday, 10/29	Wednesday, 10/30	Thursday, 10/31
Morning	Preconference Events - BOLD Update, Discussion Session on Sequencing Methods (Next Generation)	Opening Ceremony 1st Plenary Session 2nd Plenary Session	3rd Plenary Session  4th Plenary Session	5th Plenary Session  6th Plenary Session	7th Plenary Session  8th Plenary Session
Lunch		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
Afternoon		1st Parallel Session  2nd Parallel Session	Free afternoon & Excursions	3rd Parallel Session  4th Parallel Session	5th Parallel Session
Evening	Welcome Reception Dinner at Lian-Yun Hotel			Poster Session & Beverages	Closing Remarks/Cocktail Hour at Kunming Institute of Botany

 

Plenary Sessions (8): DNA Barcode Renaissance and Global Change
Monday, 10/28	Tuesday, 10/29	Wednesday, 10/30	Thursday, 10/31
Moderator: Laurence Packer	Moderator: Bob Hanner	Moderator: Wen-Ying Zhuang	Moderator: De-Zhu Li
1st Plenary Session: iBOL Update	3rd Plenary Session: Implications for Biodiversity II	5th Plenary Session: Ecological Implications	7th Plenary Session: Societal Implications
1 De-Zhu Li	7 Bob Murphy	13 TBD	19 Scott Miller
2 Gerhard Haszprunar	8 Alfried Vogler	14 Beth Clare	20 Linda Santschi
3 Paul Hebert	9 Michael Balke	15 Tomas Roslin	21 Tania Bubela
2nd Plenary Session: Implications for Biodiversity I	4th Plenary Session: Implications for Biodiversity III	6th Plenary Session: Ecosystem Implications	8th Plenary Session: Final Reflections
4 Pete Hollingsworth	10 Jan Pawlowski	16 Mehrdad Hajibabaei	22 Da-Wei Huang
5 Michelle Van der Bank	11 Gary Saunders	17 Douglas Yu	23 John Kress
6 Dario Litjmaer	12 Zhu-Liang Yang	18 Baoli Zhou	24 Richard Lane

Parallel Sessions - Expected Themes

The following are expected themes for the parallel sessions. Please contact us as soon as possible if there is a theme that you would like to see added and/or moderate that is not included in the list below.

1	Access & Benefit Sharing
2	Barcoding Policy
3	Birds
4	Ecology
5	Education
6	Environmental Monitoring
7	Fresh Water Invertebrates
8	Fishes
9	Fungi
10	Informatics
11	Marine Life
12	Medicinal Plants
13	Methodology
14	Parasites
15	Parasitoids
16	Plants
17	Pollination
18	Protists/Seaweed
19	Soil Biodiversity
20	Terrestial Invertebrates